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Al Faw

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Al Fāw

Oil port on a peninsula at the mouth of the Shatt-al-Arab in Iraq. Iran launched a major offensive against Iraq in 1986, capturing Al Fāw for two years.
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They included marines who took part in the airborne and amphibious assault on the Al Faw peninsula, personnel involved in mine warfare and a medic working at a field hospital in Basra.
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