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Ubaydi
Al Ubaidi (or Al Obaidi) is a town in the Al Anbar Governorate of Iraq. It is an Iraqi city situated along the south side of Euphrates River near the Syria Syria ( ar, سُورِيَا or سُورِيَة, translit=Sūriyā), officially the Syrian Arab Republic ( ar, الجمهورية العربية السورية, al-Jumhūrīyah al-ʻArabīyah as-Sūrīyah), is a Western Asian country loc ...n border. It is a subdistrict of Al Qa'im and contains both New Ubaydi and Old Ubaydi as well as a number of smaller villages that stretch down the Euphrates to the east. During the Iraq War, the city was patrolled by United States Marines, and was the location of a forward operating base, a US military base, as well as several battle positions. Following Operation Steel Curtain, in which United States Marine Corps, US Marines and Iraqi Army units swept the city of insurgents, the streets were secured by a combination of Iraqi Army and Marine forces. Old Ubaydi is the str ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Operation Steel Curtain
Operation Steel Curtain (Arabic: الحجاب الفولاذي Al Hejab Elfulathi) was a military operation executed by Multinational Force - Iraq, coalition forces in early November 2005 to reduce the flow of foreign Insurgency, insurgents crossing the Iraq–Syria border, border and joining the Iraqi insurgency (Iraq War), Iraqi insurgency. The operation was important in that it was the first large scale deployment of the New Iraqi Army. This offensive was part of the larger Operation Sayeed (Hunter), designed to prevent al Qaeda in Iraq from operating in the Euphrates River Valley and throughout Al Anbar and to establish a permanent Iraqi Army presence in the Al-Qa'im (town), Al Qa’im region. Operation On 5 November, US marines, Marines from 3rd Battalion, 6th Marines, 2nd Battalion, 1st Marines, and a TAP element from HQ 10th Marines, began their assault on insurgent-held Husaybah, and had cleared the city four days later. Then on 10 November the coalition forces began to a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |