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  • I'm moving our earthviewer. com digital globe imagery up to an area called Nasiriya, which is along the Euphrates River and is part of the general route that we're talking about as those armored divisions march onto Baghdad.

    CNN Transcript Mar 22, 2003 2003

  • COOPER: Just a note to the viewers -- we were just looking at pictures which were taken at Nasiriya, which is the scene of some of this intense fighting that the Marines were engaged with that Art Harris has been reporting on for the last week or so.

    CNN Transcript Apr 6, 2003 2003

  • So it is our estimate that in places such as Nasiriya and Amara and to some extent in Sadr City, there was a minor disturbance, a minor uprising, and the coalition forces handled those, and things seem to be much quieter today.

    CNN Transcript May 15, 2004 2004

  • literally every single time i turn on the TV...there he is. bleary-eyed. unhappy. wondering where that intern went with his double espresso. desperately trying to remember how to pronounce such difficult words as "Umm Qasr," "Nasiriya" and "Couric." if they don't let that man get some sleep soon, this war coverage is going to get ugly.

    monday mayhem and other alliterative exercises 2003

  • Reuters People helped victims at the site of a bomb attack in Nasiriya.

    Explosions Across Baghdad 2012

  • Reuters Men grieved at the site of the attack in Nasiriya.

    Explosions Across Baghdad 2012

  • We're planning to drill four new boreholes in the next few weeks in Lower Juba in Hagar; Nasiriya, Wel Marow and Bibi.

    Caroline Gluck: Getting help into Somalia Caroline Gluck 2011

  • Reuters Near Nasiriya, a wounded man was loaded into a pickup truck to be taken to a hospital.

    Explosions Across Baghdad 2012

  • We're planning to drill four new boreholes in the next few weeks in Lower Juba in Hagar; Nasiriya, Wel Marow and Bibi.

    Caroline Gluck: Getting help into Somalia Caroline Gluck 2011

  • The bloodiest attack occurred in the afternoon near the southern city of Nasiriya when a suicide bomber blew himself up in the middle of a procession of Shiite pilgrims.

    Blasts Kill Scores of Shiites, Raising Sectarian Tensions Sam Dagher 2012

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