Nasiriyah

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A city of southeast Iraq west-northwest of Basra. A strategic crossing on the Euphrates River, it was the site (March 2003) of one of the first major battles of the Iraq War.

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When he's working in Nasiriyah, he uses the company licensed for southern Iraq.

Cellphone use soaring, but network hasn't caught up 2006
The 507th members had been captured when their convoy took a wrong turn and was ambushed in Nasiriyah March 23.

Joseph Neal Hudson 2004
The 507th members had been captured when their convoy took a wrong turn and was ambushed in Nasiriyah March 23.

Ronald D. Young Jr. 2003
The 507th members had been captured when their convoy took a wrong turn and was ambushed in Nasiriyah March 23.

Patrick Wayne Miller 2003
The 507th members had been captured when their convoy took a wrong turn and was ambushed in Nasiriyah March 23.

Gulf War II 2003
The 507th members had been captured when their convoy took a wrong turn and was ambushed in Nasiriyah March 23.

Shoshana Nyree Johnson 2003
The deadly March 23 battle in Nasiriyah, in central Iraq, has emerged as perhaps the most famous incident in the war - both for what happened and for what was reported to have happened, but did not.

Jessica D. Lynch 2003
The 507th members had been captured when their convoy took a wrong turn and was ambushed in Nasiriyah March 23.

David S. Williams 2003
The 507th members had been captured when their convoy took a wrong turn and was ambushed in Nasiriyah March 23.

James Joseph Riley 2003
The deadly March 23 battle in Nasiriyah, in central

Piestewa, Lori Ann 2003