Possible Clues:

• Sinbad's home port
• Just as one gets into the bar in Iraq
• Iraqi city on the Shatt al-Arab
• City bombed in the gulf war
• 'The Venice of the Middle East'
• Mideast city whose name, coincidentally, is an anagram of ARABS
• Arabs reconstructed Iraqi city
• Fears a bloodbath after revolution engulfs Middle Eastern city
• City in southern Iraq
• City on the Shatt al-Arab waterway