Sentence examples for the qaim from inspiring English sources

Asked about the fighting in the Qaim area, Maj.

In the 1991 Persian Gulf war, Iraq launched missiles from the Qaim area.

Syrian opposition activists have meanwhile claimed that the Qaim strikes missed Isis's main bases and killed 30 civilians.

Last year, American commanders were describing Husayba and several neighboring towns, known as the Qaim region, as a major insurgent haven.

The Qaim compound includes the site where Iraq extracted uranium for its nuclear weapons program in the 1980's, but it was destroyed by bombing during the 1991 war.

The Qaim area, nearly 200 miles northwest of Baghdad along the most direct route from the Iraqi capital to Syria, was a launching point for Iraqi ballistic missile attacks during the 1991 Persian Gulf war.

Panzer units approached a number of the 2nd Division's positions, including the 20th Battalion's sector on the northern side of the Minqar Qaim escarpment, and were successfully beaten off.

Hassan Abid Muttar, a government intelligence officer in the town of Qaim, said the fighting had erupted in the village of Jubayda, near the Syrian border, and lasted for three hours.

The Syrian warplanes struck near the border crossing in the town of Qaim on Tuesday, hitting the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (Isis), which seeks to carve out a purist Islamic enclave across the Syria-Iraq border.

Iraqi media on Tuesday reported that US drones had struck Isis bases at the al-Qaim crossing, but the Pentagon said the US had not hit any targets on the Iraq-Syria border.

A REMOTE BATTLEFIELD -- One of the fiercest battles of the war has raged practically unseen for nearly three weeks near the town of Qaim on the border with Syria.