southern Iraq campaign

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military campaign phase of the Iraq War

The southern Iraq campaign was a series of military operations during the Iraq War focused on securing and stabilizing the predominantly Shiite southern region, including key cities such as Basra and Amarah.

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All labels observed (2)

Label	Occurrences
Southern Iraq campaign (2003)	1
southern Iraq campaign canonical	1

Statements (42)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	military campaign ⓘ phase of the Iraq War ⓘ
aimedAt	establishing security for local population in southern Iraq ⓘ supporting political stabilization in southern Iraq ⓘ
belligerent	Coalition forces ⓘ Iraqi Security Forces ⓘ surface form: Iraqi government forces Shiite militias ⓘ United Kingdom ⓘ United States of America ⓘ surface form: United States insurgent groups in southern Iraq ⓘ
combatantType	non-state armed groups ⓘ state armed forces ⓘ
conflict	Iraq War ⓘ
conflictType	asymmetric warfare ⓘ counterinsurgency campaign ⓘ
country	Iraq ⓘ
focus	Amarah ⓘ Basra ⓘ securing supply lines in southern Iraq ⓘ
involves	counterinsurgency operations ⓘ security sector support for Iraqi forces ⓘ stability operations ⓘ urban warfare ⓘ
location	Amarah ⓘ Basra ⓘ Basra Governorate ⓘ Maysan Governorate ⓘ southern Iraq ⓘ
militaryDomain	land warfare ⓘ
objective	control of key urban centers in southern Iraq ⓘ securing southern Iraq ⓘ stabilizing southern Iraq ⓘ
partOf	Iraq War ⓘ
relatedTo	coalition military operations in Iraq ⓘ occupation of Iraq ⓘ
result	coalition control of major southern cities ⓘ reduction of large-scale organized resistance in southern Iraq ⓘ
strategicImportance	control of access to Persian Gulf via Basra ⓘ security of oil infrastructure in southern Iraq ⓘ
targetRegion	predominantly Shiite areas of Iraq ⓘ
theater	Middle East ⓘ
timePeriod	21st century ⓘ

How these facts were elicited

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Instruction

You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10.

# Requirements
- If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list.
- If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list.
- Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf".
- Do not get too wordy.
- Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.

Input

Subject: southern Iraq campaign
Description of subject: The southern Iraq campaign was a series of military operations during the Iraq War focused on securing and stabilizing the predominantly Shiite southern region, including key cities such as Basra and Amarah.

Referenced by (2)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Battle of Al Amarah → theater → southern Iraq campaign ⓘ

Battle of Basra (2003) → campaign → southern Iraq campaign ⓘ

this entity surface form: Southern Iraq campaign (2003)