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  2. Ramadi - Wikipedia

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    Ramadi stands on an important trade route leading across the desert to Jordan and the Mediterranean Sea. [16] The main Amman–Baghdad road passes through the city. A railway line also runs through the southern outskirts of Ramadi, heading east to Baghdad and west to Haditha and the Syrian border.

  3. List of the United States military installations in Iraq

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    FOB Sykes was located approximately five miles south of the Iraqi city of Tal Afar (Ninewah Governorate) and 40 miles east of the Iraq–Syria border. [citation needed] FOB: Summerall Stoddard: Baiji: Saladin: FOB: Sword: FOB: Taji: FOB: Tash: Ramadi: Al Anbar: Joint Security Station erected around an old Iraqi police station FOB: Tiger: Al-Qa ...

  4. American occupation of Ramadi - Wikipedia

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    Al-Tash was a UNHCR-administered refugee camp in Iraq, described as being outside the city of Ramadi in western Iraq. In 2003, it was described as having 13,000 men, women, and children. [ 1 ] In 2003, Human Rights Watch visited the camp, finding that some residents had lived there since as early as 1982, when they had been removed from border ...

  5. Al Anbar Governorate - Wikipedia

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    The provincial capital is Ramadi; other important cities include Fallujah, Al-Qa'im and Haditha. The governorate was known as Ramadi up to 1976 when it was renamed Al Anbar Province, and it was known as Dulaim before 1962. A large majority of the inhabitants of the province are Arab Sunni Muslims and most belong to the Dulaim tribe.

  6. Geography of Iraq - Wikipedia

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    Overview map of Iraq Topography of Iraq. The geography of Iraq is diverse and falls into five main regions: the desert (west of the Euphrates), Upper Mesopotamia (between the upper Tigris and Euphrates rivers), the northern highlands of Iraq, Lower Mesopotamia, and the alluvial plain extending from around Tikrit to the Persian Gulf.

  7. List of highways in Iraq - Wikipedia

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    Iraq has a network of highways connecting it from the inside among the Iraq provinces and to the outside neighboring countries: Iran, Turkey, Syria, Jordan, Saudi Arabia and Kuwait. When Saddam Hussein visited the United States in the 1980s, he was impressed by the size and infrastructure of the highway system. He ordered his engineers to build ...

  8. Sunni Triangle - Wikipedia

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    The Sunni Triangle is a densely populated region of Iraq to the north and west of Baghdad inhabited mostly by Sunni Muslim Arabs. [1] The roughly triangular area's points are usually said to lie near Baghdad (the southeast point), Ramadi (the southwest point) and Tikrit (the north point). Each side is approximately 125 kilometers (80 miles) long.

  9. Ramadi District - Wikipedia

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    Ramadi (Arabic: قضاء الرمادي) is a district in Al Anbar Governorate, Iraq. It is centred on the city of Ramadi. Cities. Ramadi (400,000) Sajariyah (20,000)