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Camps. 1/4 TF Highlander in '07 w/1st LAR, 3/4 in '06/'07, and many others over years. Large SVBIED at TCP Alpha 20070507. Mosul Air Base. Used by Romanian troops. [1] All UN sanctioned weapons were destroyed and FOB was transitioned to the Iraqi Ministry of Defense in 2009.
Victory Base Complex (VBC) was a cluster of U.S. military installations surrounding the Baghdad International Airport (BIAP). The primary component of the VBC was Camp Victory, the location of the Al-Faw Palace, which served as the headquarters for the Multi-National Corps - Iraq, and later as the headquarters for the United States Forces - Iraq.
Baghdad International Airport (IATA: BGW, ICAO: ORBI), previously Saddam International Airport from 1982 to 2003, (IATA: SDA, ICAO: ORBS) (Arabic: مطار بغداد الدولي, romanized:Maṭār Baġdād ad-Dawaliyy) is Iraq 's largest international airport, located in a suburb about 16 km (9.9 mi) west of downtown Baghdad in the Baghdad ...
The terminal also has VIP areas for business jets, and there is a VIP terminal for visiting dignitaries and diplomats [5] for the purpose of achieving international airport standards. [7] In 2010 Erbil International Airport had the least expensive aviation fuel in Iraq (at 83 US cents per litre). [8]
On Easter Sunday April 11, 2004, a battle was fought at Baghdad International Airport (BIAP) in Iraq primarily between United States Army truck drivers, air defense artillerymen, armor, military policemen, engineers and miscellaneous logistics personnel and militants from Muqtada al Sadr's Mahdi Army, along the Southwest side of the airport wall in an area commonly referred to as Engineer Village.
Camp Victory was the primary component of the Victory Base Complex (VBC) which occupied the area surrounding the Baghdad International Airport (BIAP). The Al-Faw Palace, which served as the headquarters for the Multi-National Corps – Iraq (and later United States Forces – Iraq until it was turned over to the Government of Iraq on December 1, 2011), was located on Camp Victory.
12/30. 11,495. 3,504. Concrete. Balad Air Base (Arabic: قاعدة بلد الجوية) (ICAO: ORBD), is an Iraqi Air Force base located near Balad in the Sunni Triangle 40 miles (64 km) north of Baghdad, Iraq. Built in the early 1980s, it was originally named Al-Bakr Air Base. In 2003 the base was captured by the United States Armed Forces at ...
Camp Liberty after 26 December 2013 missile attack. Camp Liberty is a former installation of the United States Department of Defense in Baghdad, Iraq. The installation was used from 2012 to September 2016 to house members of the People's Mujahedin of Iran (PMOI, also called MEK), who had been forcibly evicted from Camp Ashraf.