Umm Qasr, Iraq

Iraq

Umm Qasr, Iraq shares 50 connections with 4053 other places across 8 topics, with military history as the dominant thread. The port sits at the center of modern Iraq's conflicts: it was the site of the first military confrontation of the 2003 Iraq War, and its port later received humanitarian aid shipments. The Iraqi Navy operated from Umm Qasr. Saddam Hussein also shifted commerce there from Basra after the 1991 uprisings, using trade access as leverage against that city's population. Many ties run to Basra and Kuwait.