The following day , coalition forces Conquering launched Process_start an incursion Attack into Basra Province from their massing point close to the Iraqi-Kuwaiti border .

While special forces launched Process_start an amphibious assault Attack from the Persian Gulf to secure Getting Basra and the surrounding Surrounding petroleum fields , the main invasion army moved Motion into southern Iraq , occupying Control the region and engaging Participation in the Battle Hostile_encounter of Nasiriyah on 23 March .

The battle Hostile_encounter damaged Damaging the prestige of Saddam Hussein and the Iraqi government , who began Process_start extensively improving defenses Defending for the threatened major city of Basra .

It represented , along with the fall Conquering of Basra in 1546 , a significant step towards eventual Ottoman victory Getting and the procurement Commerce_buy of the lower Mesopotamia , the mouths of the Euphrates and Tigris rivers , opening Openness a trading outlet into the Persian Gulf .

It runs from Kuwait City to the border town of Safwan in Iraq and then on to the Iraqi city of Basra .

Ultimately , they managed to occupy Control and control Control the coasts of Yemen , Aden and Arabia , as far north as Basra , so as to facilitate Cause_to_make_progress their trade with India and block Hindering the Portuguese from attacking the Hijaz .

Seydi Ali Reis and his galleys would be attacked Attack in an ambush by Portuguese forces while he was trying to bring Bringing back his float from Basra to Suez in August 1554 .

Most of his troops were recruited Becoming_a_member in India and then sent Sending by sea to Basra .

While these troops were being trained Education_teaching , British military engineers built Building a field railway from the coast up to Basra and beyond .