The World - News from May 1, 1986
Iran reported new gains by its troops on the Faw Peninsula in southern Iraq. A Tehran communique on the 5 1/2-year war said 5,100 Iraqis were killed and wounded in two days of fighting. Iraq made only brief mention of ground fighting, reporting that its forces checked an Iranian assault, but a spokesman in Baghdad claimed that the Iraqi navy destroyed two vessels near the Iranian coast in the Persian Gulf. There was no independent confirmation of the reports.
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