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Discover Safwan in Iraq

Safwan in the region of Al Başrah is a place located in Iraq - some 296 mi or ( 477 km ) South-East of Baghdad , the country's capital .

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Local time in Safwan is now 03:22 AM (Sunday) . The local timezone is named " Asia/Baghdad " with a UTC offset of 3 hours. Depending on your mobility, these larger cities might be interesting for you: Karbala, Baghdad, Basra, Bushehr, and Arak. When in this area, you might want to check out Karbala . Are you looking for some initial hints on what might be interesting in Safwan ? We have collected some references on our attractions page.


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Interesting facts about this location

Safwan Airfield Standoff

The Safwan Airfield Standoff was a post-ceasefire standoff between the Iraqi and U.S. forces at the end of the 1991 Gulf War.

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Located at 30.11 47.72 (Lat./Long.); Less than 0 km away
Tags: 1991 in Iraq, Battles and conflicts without fatalities, Gulf War

Safwan

Safwan is a town in southeast Iraq on the border with Kuwait. It was the site of an Iraqi Air Force base.

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Located at 30.12 47.72 (Lat./Long.); Less than 0 km away
Tags: Populated places in Basra Province

Safwan Air Base

Safwan Air Base is a former Iraqi Air Force base in the Basra Governorate of Iraq. It was captured by Coalition forces during Operation Iraqi Freedom in 2003.

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Located at 30.13 47.65 (Lat./Long.); Less than 7 km away
Tags: Closed facilities of the United States Air Force in Iraq, Iraqi Air Force bases

Camp Bucca

Camp Bucca was a detention facility maintained by the United States military in the vicinity of Umm Qasr, Iraq. As of June 2011, a group of entrepreneurial Iraqis and Americans are re-building Camp Bucca as Basra Gateway, a logistics city and environmentally friendly industrial hub to lead the new Iraq into the 21st century.

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Located at 30.07 47.87 (Lat./Long.); Less than 16 km away
Tags: Closed military facilities of the United States in Iraq, Human rights abuses, Prisoner-of-war camps, Prisons in Iraq

Khor Al Zubair

Khor Al Zubair is a city in Basra in Iraq, one of the major industrial areas as well as to contain the Khor Al Zubair Port on a set of laboratories and companies (such as petrochemical, fertilizer plant and South, and iron and steel plant, liquid and gas).

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Located at 30.20 47.88 (Lat./Long.); Less than 19 km away
Tags: Populated places in Basra Province, Port cities and towns in Iraq, Port cities and towns of the Persian Gulf