The Shatt al-Arab is a river about 200 kilometres in length that is formed at the confluence of the Euphrates and Tigris rivers in the town of al-Qurnah in the Basra Governorate of southern Iraq. The

On 21 June 2004, in the Shatt al-Arab waterway, six Royal Marines and two Royal Navy sailors were captured by Iran. The British servicemen were seized while training Iraqi river patrol personnel after