Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
The Highway of Death ( Arabic: طريق الموت ṭarīq al-mawt) is a six-lane highway between Kuwait and Iraq, officially known as Highway 80. It runs from Kuwait City to the border town of Safwan in Iraq and then on to the Iraqi city of Basra. The road was used by Iraqi armored divisions for the 1990 invasion of Kuwait.
Iraq has a network of highways connecting it from the inside among the Iraq provinces and to the outside neighboring countries: Iran, Turkey, Syria, Jordan, Saudi Arabia and Kuwait. When Saddam Hussein visited the United States in the 1980s, he was impressed by the size and infrastructure of the highway system.
Baghdad Airport Road. The Baghdad Airport Road is a 12-kilometre (7.5 mi) stretch of highway in Baghdad, Iraq linking the Green Zone, a heavily fortified area at the centre of Baghdad, to Baghdad International Airport (BIAP). It also links different parts of Baghdad to the Airport and connects neighbouring areas to each other.
Planned to end with the withdrawal of U.S. combat troops, and succeeded by Operation New Dawn (see 2010 below). Operation Bastille. September 2002. March 2003. Throughout Iraq. Forward Presence: Was the code name for the operation to deploy force elements and prepare for possible combat operations in Iraq. Objective Buford. March 2003. March 2003.
Highway 6 (Iraq) Highway 7 (Iraq) Highway 8 (Iraq) Highway 9 (Iraq) Highway 10 (Iraq) Highway 11 (Iraq) Highway 12 (Iraq) Highway of Death. List of highways in Iraq.
The United States Department of Defense continues to have a large number of temporary military bases in Iraq, most a type of forward operating base (FOB). Depending on their size or utility, the installations were called: camp, forward operating bases (FOBs), contingency operating bases (COBs), contingency operating sites (COSs), combat ...
What links here; Upload file; Special pages; Printable version; Page information; Get shortened URL; Download QR code
U.S. Route 80. Original terminus at US 101 in San Diego, CA. Truncated to Dallas, TX by 1991. U.S. Route 80 or U.S. Highway 80 ( US 80) is a major east–west United States Numbered Highway in the Southern United States, much of which was once part of the early auto trail known as the Dixie Overland Highway.