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The Al-Faw peninsula (Arabic: شبه جزيرة الفاو; also transliterated as Fao or Fawr) is a peninsula in the Persian Gulf, located in the extreme southeast of Iraq. The marshy peninsula is 20 km (12 mi) southeast of Iraq's third largest city, Basra , and is part of a delta for the Shatt al-Arab (Arvand Rud) river, formed by the ...
Al-Fāw (Arabic: ٱلْفَاو; sometimes transliterated as Fao) is a port town on Al-Faw Peninsula in Iraq near the Shatt al-Arab and the Persian Gulf. The Al Faw Peninsula is part of the Basra Governorate .
Zubair was the first field developed by the company on a concession granted in 1938. Commercial production started in December 1951. Oil was delivered via some 70 miles of pipeline to a new loading facility at Al-Faw (Fao). The Zubair field was the third oil field in Iraq to enter production and the first in the south of the country.
Khawr Al Amaya Oil Terminal on 11 Nov. 2005. Khor Al Amaya Oil Terminal is an Iraqi oil port.It lies southeast of the Al Faw peninsula in the Persian Gulf.Khawr Al Amaya Oil Terminal is commonly referred to as "KAAOT" and it, along with its sister terminal, the Al Basrah Oil Terminal or "ABOT", provides platforms from which a large majority of Iraq's oil can be exported.
Complete elimination of Iranian forces in Iraq (liberating 4,400sq.km) [1] [2] [3] Renewed Iraqi invasion of Iran, resulting in the capture of dozens of towns (occupying 9,600sq.km) [ 2 ] [ 4 ] Iran's submission to a United Nations resolution regarding a ceasefire with Iraq, ultimately leading to the end of the Iran–Iraq War .
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations [note 1] (FAO) is a specialized agency of the United Nations that leads international efforts to defeat hunger and improve nutrition and food security. Its Latin motto, fiat panis, translates to "let there be bread". It was founded on 16 October 1945. [2]
The Oil-for-Food Programme (OIP) was established by the United Nations in 1995 (under UN Security Council Resolution 986) [1] to allow Iraq to sell oil on the world market in exchange for food, medicine, and other humanitarian needs for ordinary Iraqi citizens without allowing Iraq to boost its military capabilities.
The channel is owned and controlled by Harakat Hezbollah al-Nujaba, an Iraqi Shi'ite paramilitary group, which in February 2019 was designated by the United States a Specially Designated Global Terrorist (SDGT), as was its leader Akram al-Kaabi and Al-Nujaba TV. [8] [9]