The perceived threat to Iraq in the summer of 1982 thus was serious enough to force Saddam Hussein to request the Nonaligned Movement to change the venue of its scheduled September meeting from Baghdad to India ; nevertheless, since the fall of 1982, the ground conflict has generally been a stalemated war of attrition — although Iran made small but demoralizing territorial advances as a result of its massive offensives in the reed marshes north of Basra in 1984 and in 1985, in Al Faw Peninsula in early 1986, and in the outskirts of Basra during January and February 1987.

During 1987, Iran launched a number of Silkworm missiles from the Faw Peninsula vicinity striking the Liberian-flagged tanker Sungari and US-flagged tanker Sea Isle City in October 1987 and 5 other missiles struck areas in Kuwait earlier in the year.

Faw Peninsula, Iraq

During the Iraq War, Operation Sweeny was a counter-smuggling sweep of the Al Faw Peninsula and nearby waters conducted beginning on 15 October 2003.

Al-Faw (; sometimes transliterated as Fao ) is a small port on the Al Faw Peninsula in Iraq near the Shatt al-Arab and the Persian Gulf.

The Al Faw Peninsula itself is part of the Basrah Governorate.

* Sons of the Desert is a partial remake of 1928's We Faw Down.

Other districts of Basra include Al-Qurnah, Az Zubayr, Al Mudaynah, Shatt Al Arab, Abu Al Khaseeb and Al Faw located on the Persian Gulf.

As in Al Faw the SEALs found their DPVs to be ineffective and this marked the last time they would employ them in Iraq.

British and Australian warships provided gunfire support to the Al Faw operation during the 2003 invasion of Iraq.

On March 20, 2003 at approximately 2: 30 am local time 2 / 5, as an element of the 15th Marine Expeditionary Unit, commenced operations in Iraq with the start of the Battle of Al Faw.

Iran had by then captured Al Faw and generally pushed Iraqi forces back to the prewar borders.

The Malay Peninsula or Thai-Malay Peninsula (; سمننجوڠ تانه ملايو, ) is a peninsula in Southeast Asia.

Calabria (; in Calabrian dialects: Calabbria or Calavria, in antiquity known as Bruttium or-formerly-as Italia, is a region in southern Italy, south of Naples, located at the " toe " of the Italian Peninsula.

Klyuchevskaya Sopka (; also known as Kliuchevskoi, ) is a stratovolcano which is the highest mountain on the Kamchatka Peninsula of Russia and the highest active volcano of Eurasia.

The Strait of Malacca (; Jawi: سلت ملاك ) is a narrow, stretch of water between the Malay Peninsula ( Peninsular Malaysia ) and the Indonesian island of Sumatra.

Murmansk (; ; ; ) is a port city and the administrative center of Murmansk Oblast, Russia, located in the extreme northwest part of Russia, on the Kola Bay, from the Barents Sea on the northern shore of the Kola Peninsula, not far from Russia's borders with Norway and Finland.

Kowloon (; traditional Chinese: ; jyutping: gau < sup > 2 </ sup > lung < sup > 4 </ sup >) is an urban area in Hong Kong comprising the Kowloon Peninsula and New Kowloon.

Kwun Tong (; originally 官塘 ) is an area in Kwun Tong District, situated at the eastern part of the Kowloon Peninsula, and its boundary stretches from Lion Rock in the north to Lei Yue Mun in the south, and from the winding paths of Kowloon Peak in the east to the north coast of the former Kai Tak Airport runway in the west.

The Gulf of Aqaba (; transliterated: Khalyj al -' Aqabah ) is a large gulf located at the northern tip of the Red Sea, east of the Sinai Peninsula and west of the Arabian mainland.

Capri (; ) is an island in the Tyrrhenian Sea off the Sorrentine Peninsula, on the south side of the Gulf of Naples in the Campania region of Italy.

The Míkmaq (; Mi ' kmaq: ) are a First Nations people, indigenous to the northeastern region of New England, Canada's Atlantic Provinces, and the Gaspé Peninsula of Quebec.

The Chemakum language (; also written as Chimakum or Chimacum ) was spoken by the Chemakum, a Native American group that once lived on western Washington state's Olympic Peninsula.

Svetlogorsk (; ; ), prior to 1945 known by its German name Rauschen, is a coastal resort town and the administrative center of Svetlogorsky District of Kaliningrad Oblast, Russia, located on the coast of the Baltic Sea on the Sambian Peninsula.

Rankin Inlet (; Inuktitut syllabics: ᑲᖏᕿᓂᖅ or Kangirliniq, ᑲᖏᖅᖠᓂᖅ, meaning deep bay / inlet ) is an Inuit hamlet on Kudlulik Peninsula in Nunavut, Canada.

Hel Peninsula (; ; ; or Putziger Nehrung ) is a 35-km-long sand bar peninsula in northern Poland separating the Bay of Puck from the open Baltic Sea.

A sarong or sarung (; Indonesian and Malay:, Arabic صارون ṣārūn ) is a large tube or length of fabric, often wrapped around the waist and worn by men and women throughout much of South Asia, Southeast Asia, the Arabian Peninsula, the Horn of Africa, and on many Pacific islands.

The terms Qahtanite and Qahtani (; transliterated: Qahtan or Qaḥṭān or Kahtan ) refer to Semitic peoples either originating in, or claiming genealogical descent from the southern extent of the Arabian Peninsula, especially from Yemen.

Musala (; from the Ottoman Turkish Mus Allah, means " near Allah " and " place for pray ") is the highest peak in Bulgaria and the entire Balkan Peninsula, standing at 2, 925 m ( 9, 596 ft ).

Judaeo-Catalan (;, ), also called Catalanic or Qatalanit (, ), was a Jewish language spoken by the Jewish communities in the northeastern Iberian Peninsula, especially in Catalonia and the Balearic Islands.

Job's Cove (; NST ) a small fishing village on the north side of Conception Bay on the Bay de Verde Peninsula of Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.

Governor Nobre de Carvalho Bridge (; Portuguese: Ponte Governador Nobre de Carvalho ), also known as the Macau-Taipa Bridge (), is a dual-lane two-way bridge connecting Macau Peninsula near Casino Lisboa and the island of Taipa at the northern slope of Taipa Pequena ( Small Taipa Hill ).

Capt. Michael A. Musmanno, Military governor of the Sorrentine Peninsula, had also seen and felt the `` rain ''.

He also secured the alliance of Henry, Count of Monte Sant ' Angelo, who controlled the Gargano Peninsula and dated his charters by Alexios ' reign.

Afonso also sent ambassadors to European kingdoms outside the Iberian Peninsula and began amicable commercial relations with most of them.

The ACT also has a small strip of territory around the southern end of the Beecroft Peninsula, which is the northern headland of Jervis Bay.

To trace it starting arbitrarily at South America, it flows through the Drake Passage between South America and the Antarctic Peninsula and then is split by the Scotia Arc to the east, with a shallow warm branch flowing to the north in the Falkland Current and a deeper branch passing through the Arc more to the east before also turning to the north.

* Balboa Peninsula, Newport Beach, California, also called Balboa

The Balkans ( turkish balkan = „ mountains or forrest mountains “), often referred to as the Balkan Peninsula, and recently also as " Southeast Europe ", although none of the three are coterminous, is a geopolitical and cultural region of southeastern Europe.

Therefore Latinos are Americans who are descendants of the Latin group ( namely Spain, France, Italy and Portugal ) and Hispanic refers to the descendants from the Iberian Peninsula ( also known as Ibero-American ).

Bruhn mentions a battle ( also mentioned by Fabricius ) taking place on September 10, 1217 between Christian knights and Moor warriors on the Iberian Peninsula near the castle Alcazar, where it is said that a golden cross on white appeared in the sky, to bring victory to the Christians.

Most White Ecuadorans are of colonial era Spanish origin, also known as criollos ( literally meaning " localSpaniards ", as opposed to " Peninsulares ", which were Spaniards born in the Iberian Peninsula in Spain ).

The British Antarctic Survey operates a transcontinental air link between Port Stanley Airport and the Rothera Research Station on the Antarctic Peninsula and servicing also other British bases in the British Antarctic Territory using a de Havilland Canada Dash 7.

There are also a number of helipads across the territory, including the roof of the Peninsula Hotel ( which is the only rooftop helipad in the territory, excluding the rooftop heliport of Shun Tak Centre and those in hospitals ) and Cheung Chau Island, between Tung Wan Beach and Kwun Yam Beach.

It covers about ; it is also the largest State Park in the Lower Peninsula and the third largest in Michigan.

La Malinche ( also known as Malinali or Malintzin ) was born in 1496, in a then " frontier " region between the Aztec Empire and the Maya states of the Yucatán Peninsula ).

" Quarries for turquoise and copper were also found at " Wadi Hamamat, Tura, Aswan and various other Nubian sites " on the Sinai Peninsula and at Timna.

Nigeria is also seeking a rail link with Cameroon, but discussions are more contentious in the aftermath of the International Court of Justice ’ s October 2002 verdict in favor of Cameroon on the issue of control of the Bakasi Peninsula.

Usually also included are the Afroasiatic languages native to the North Africa, the Horn of Africa, the Arabian Peninsula and the Near East, as well as the Dravidian languages of the Indian Subcontinent ( sometimes extended to Elamo-Dravidian, connecting India and the Persian Plateau ).

There is also a dialect of French centred mainly on the Port au Port Peninsula on the west coast of the island which has had an impact on the syntax of English in the area.

The shipyard is a major employer ( largest industrial employer in the state of Virginia ) not only for the lower Virginia Peninsula, but also portions of Hampton Roads south of the James River and the harbor, portions of the Middle Peninsula region, and even some northeastern counties of North Carolina.

It has also been proposed that the war left the Iberian kingdoms with deep economic crises, leading to the expulsion of the Jews ( who had lived in the Iberian Peninsula for over ten centuries ) in order to confiscate their funds and property.

There also were incursions by the kingdoms of Kalinga ( modern Orissa ) and from the Malay Peninsula as well.

Much of the population of the Scandinavian Peninsula is naturally concentrated in its southern part, which is also its agricultural region.

The Sami people, also spelled Sámi or Saami, are the indigenous people inhabiting the Arctic area of Sápmi, which today encompasses parts of far northern Sweden, Norway, Finland, the Kola Peninsula of Russia, and the border area between south and middle Sweden and Norway.

The collapse of the Middle Frankish Kingdom also compounded the disunity of the Italian Peninsula, which persisted into the 19th century.