The World - News from March 14, 1986
Iraq said its forces overran Iranian forward positions in a major breakthrough in an attempt to dislodge enemy forces from the strategic Faw Peninsula. Iraqi officers said that twin columns advanced to within a few miles of the oil port of Al Faw. Iran conceded that the Iraquis launched a “a major counterattack” but said it was repulsed.
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