Basra English

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What does Basra mean?

Basra

— noun the second largest city in Iraq; an oil port in southern Iraq

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I flew from our headquarters at Basra this morning.

While you're swaggering here. there are more planes away there at Basra getting ready.

Basra?

Have you never heard of Basra?

This lady has been putting me through a severe cross-examination. But the gist of it is that, away there in Basra. new aeroplanes are rising night and day, like hornets round a hornets' nest.

In three days, we shall be in Basra.

Basra.

Would you take me back to Basra?

Northward to Basra.

Rich silks. Satins from Basra.

Basra, my lord. - Basra?

In the city of Basra, Iraq, there lived another master of light.

And now, our story begins. as they were returning home to their beautiful city of Basra.

Basra!

The best in Basra.

There also was unrest in Iraq's second city, Basra.

No, these stay here in Basra, those are got Baghdad.

We just got the order to go back to Basra.

Back to Basra?

I served in Basra with the 7th Armoured Brigade before I came here.

After being arrested and taken to a jail in Basra, the British army immediately requested the release of these men.

When the Basra government refused, British tanks came in and physically broke out the men from the Basra prison.

DO THEY KNOW ABOUT BASRA?

Satins from Basra.

Basra, my lord.

Basra? Ah!

It's better than Basra.

The southern hemisphere has always drawn: the great rivers, the Nile I'Egitto, Basra, I'Eufrate.

Why are they guarding Basra and Kirkuk?

Do they know about Basra?

They are just civilians fleeing Basra.

Not that sadr city and Basra Were my first choices but, hey, You take what you can get.

He was born in the Iraqi city of Basra in 965AD.

It says he was killed in a chemical plant explosion in Basra seven years ago.

News and current affairs

On April 5, 2003, a civilian neighborhood in Basra was bombed.

The wheat seeds were thus dressed with methyl mercury and sent to Basra in Iraq's south.

The three provinces--Mosul, Baghdad, and Basra--each had very distinct characters and very different population structures.

Baghdad was mainly Sunni; and Basra was predominantly Shi'ite.

The time has come to think the unthinkable, about creating a Kurdish state in the north, an Arab Sunni one in the center around Baghdad, and an Arab Shi'ite state in the south around Basra.

Such differences matter no less in Iraq today, and have done so from the first days of the occupation, when the British took Basra and the Americans Baghdad.

Indeed, a top police official in Basra reported that as many as 15 women are killed every month in the city.

In 2008, following Maliki's military operation to clean out militia groups in Basra, Iran's leaders seem to have decided that this two-faced strategy had run its course.

The offensive into and around Iraq's second city of Basra will be no easier.