Profiles for 59 cities, towns and other populated places in Yuba County California. Incorporated Places have an asterisk (*).
Balad Air Base is an Iraqi Air Force base located near Balad in the Sunni Triangle 40 miles (64 km) north of Baghdad, Iraq.
On March 20, 1973, Iraqi troops seized the Kuwait border post at Al-Samitah. Baghdad announced that it was annexing a part of occupied Iraq near the Iraqi port city of Umm Qasr. Once again, Kuwait appealed to the Arab League; Saudi Arabia mediated the withdrawal of Iraqi forces.