Historical clue formulations

• Iraqi port city — 2024-04-26
• Iraqi city near the Tigris and Euphrates — 2023-09-10
• Principal Iraqi port — 2022-05-31
• Iraqi port city — 2022-03-04
• Economic capital of Iraq — 2021-08-14
• Home to the Imam Ali Mosque, built in the seventh century — 2021-06-18
• Mideast port that was home to Sinbad the sailor — 2020-12-09
• Iraqi port city — 2020-06-28
• City whose name, appropriately, is an anagram of ARABS — 2019-10-24
• Home of Sinbad Island — 2019-05-12
• Port north of Kuwait City — 2019-04-06
• Iraq's main port — 2018-08-22
• Iraqi city whose name, appropriately, is an anagram of ARABS — 2018-06-04
• Iraq's main port — 2018-05-30
• Major port near the Persian Gulf — 2017-07-22
• Port of Iraq — 2016-10-26
• Arab city whose name is an anagram of ARABS — 2015-06-07
• Arabian port that's home to Sinbad Island — 2015-05-29
• Home of Sinbad the sailor — 2013-06-07
• Southern Iraqi city — 2012-03-15
• Mideast city whose name, coincidentally, is an anagram of ARABS — 2010-09-29
• Mideast city that is the capital of the world in H. G. Wells's "The Shape of Things to Come" — 2010-07-15
• Iraqi seaport — 2009-02-10
• Iraqi port — 2008-05-28
• Port of Iraq — 2008-05-04
• City bombed in the gulf war — 2008-03-07
• Shatt al Arab port — 2007-07-07
• City whose name can be anagrammed, appropriately, to ARABS — 2006-06-13
• Iraqi port — 2004-07-14
• Port on the Shatt-al-Arab — 2000-12-21
• Mideast port — 2000-09-14
• Persian Gulf port — 2000-01-11
• Big Iraqi port — 1999-11-10
• Iraqi port — 1998-06-13
• Port of Iraq — 1997-09-24
• Iraqi city — 1996-11-21
• Iraqi city — 1996-08-23
• Iraq's second-largest city — 1994-10-17