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An Numaniyah Airport: Baghdad: ORBI BGW Baghdad International Airport (New Al Muthana Air Base) Basra (Basrah) ORMM BSR Basra International Airport: Erbil (Arbil) ORER EBL Erbil International Airport: Harir: ORBR Al-Harir Air Base: Iskandariya: ORAI Al Iskandariyah Airport: Karbala: Karbala International Airport [1] (under development) Karbala
The ICAO code for the airport consequently changed from ORBS to ORBI. The IATA code also changed from SDA to BGW, which had previously referred to all Baghdad airports, and before that to Al Muthana Airport when Saddam Hussein was in power. In July 2003, the airport resumed civilian flights for the first time since 1991. [5] Babylon Terminal ...
Al-Qaeda in Iraq [a] (Arabic: القاعدة في العراق, romanized: al-Qā'idah fī al-ʿIrāq; AQI), was a Salafi jihadist organization affiliated with al-Qaeda. [1] [10] [11] [2] It was founded on 17 October 2004, [1] and was led by Abu Musab al-Zarqawi until its disbandment on 15 October 2006 after he was killed in a targeted bombing on June 7, 2006 in Hibhib, Iraq by the United ...
Operation Larchwood 4 was an operation launched by B squadron of the British 22nd Special Air Service Regiment supported by US forces to attack an Al-Qaeda-occupied farmhouse in Yusufiyah, Baghdad Governorate, Iraq.
Lieutenant-General Rob Fry described the role of British special forces in defeating al-Qaeda as being of "an absolutely historic scale". [55] The SAS campaign against the Shia Special Groups was successful. Iraq's population, however, is made up of a Shia majority whose insurgents were supported covertly by Iran. The task force and JSOC ...
The Islamic State of Iraq claimed the 22 Dec. Baghdad bombings in a statement released on jihadist Internet forums. The statement was translated by the SITE Intelligence Group. The claim was made on 26 December 2011; the day after another suicide attack killed seven policemen outside the Interior Ministry.
Between 2004 and June 2007, Al-Qaeda in Iraq and Shi'ite militias used locations in the Baghdad Belts to supply their combat operations in the capital. According to General Odierno, a top US commander in Iraq, "Attacks occurring in Baghdad often originate in these outlying regions."
In mid-October 2006, al-Qaeda announced the creation of Islamic state of Iraq (ISI), [4] replacing the Mujahideen Shura Council (MSC) and its al-Qaeda in Iraq (AQI).. Two major combined Coalition-Iraqi Security Force offensive operations launched in early-to-mid-2007, Operation Imposing Law in Baghdad and Operation Phantom Thunder in the belts surrounding the capital, reduced the effectiveness ...