
British troops in Iraq's southern Basra oil port pulled out of their heavily attacked base in the heart of the city on Tuesday, the first to be handed to Iraqi forces who are slowly taking control of the security.
battlement | |
| Definition: | A notched parapet built on top of a wall, with alternating merlons and crenels for decoration or defense. |
| Synonyms: | crenelation, crenellation |
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War on the other hand is such a terrible thing, that no man, especially a Christian man, has the right to assume the responsibility of starting it.
Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910) |
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