The World - News from Feb. 24, 1986

Iraqi forces fighting to retake the southern tip of the Faw Peninsula from occupying Iranian troops recaptured an important communications junction, the official Iraqi News Agency reported. Tehran radio said the Iraqis suffered 500 casualties in the fighting and that 59 prisoners were taken. Iran denied that it had lost any territory on the peninsula. Independent confirmation of the combatants’ claims was not possible. Meanwhile, with Iranian forces near its border, Kuwait said it would not balk at the possibility of going to war if the Iranians should “violate Kuwaiti territory.”