Operation `` Marne Torch '' refers to two operations launched Military_operation by Coalition forces in 2007 against al-Qaeda in Iraq in the Arab Jabour area of Babil province .

The first operation , Marne Torch I began Process_start on 16 June 2007 , when Multinational Division Central launched Military_operation offensive operations against Sunni and Shi'ia extremists , as well as insurgents with Iranian influence in the city and surrounding regions of Arab Jabour in Babil province .

Marne Torch II was launched Process_start on 15 September 2007 in the Hawr Rajab area .

It was a battle Hostile_encounter in World War I as part of the Second Battle Hostile_encounter of the Marne , initially prompted by a German Spring Offensive .

American forces Causation had linked Having_or_lacking_access up with their French allies at the Marne River on June 3 , 1918 and had forced the Germans back across the river .

12 express train , which derailed Self_motion while traveling Traveling at high speed near the small village of Blacy , Marne between Vitry-le-François and Loisy-sur-Marne .

The Race to the Sea ( ; , ) took place Process_start from about 1914 , after the Battle of the Frontiers ( ) and the German advance Motion into France , which had been stopped at the First Battle of the Marne and was followed by the First Battle of the Aisne a Franco-British counter-offensive .

The Belgians planned Arranging to exploit Control German troop movements away from Antwerp and to assist Assistance the French army on the Marne .

The southern operation was designated Choosing Operation Marne Thunderbolt and targeted Aiming insurgent safe havens in the belts to the south-east of Baghdad , particularly the Arab Jabour region .