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Yathrib (Arabic: ناحية يثرب. ), also transliterated Yethrib is a city in the Salah ad Din Governorate , [ 1 ] Iraq , 45 kilometres (28 mi) [ 2 ] directly north of the national capital, Baghdad .
Medina, [a] officially Al-Madinah al-Munawwarah (Arabic: المدينة المنورة, romanized: al-Madīnah al-Munawwarah, lit. 'The Luminous City', Hejazi Arabic pronunciation: [al.maˈdiːna al.mʊˈnawːara]) and also commonly simplified as Madīnah or Madinah (المدينة, al-Madina) and known in pre-Islamic times as Yathrib (يَثْرِب), is the capital of Medina Province in the ...
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A delegation from Yathrib, consisting of the representatives of the twelve important clans of Medina, invited Muhammad as a neutral outsider to serve as the chief arbitrator for the community. [5] [8] There had been conflict in Yathrib between its Arab and Jewish tribes for around a hundred years prior. [5]
The base was handed back to the Iraqi Air Force on November 8, 2011, during the U.S. withdrawal from Iraq, after which it returned to being called Balad Air Base. [1] During the Iraq War it was the second largest U.S. base in Iraq.
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The largest military air base in Iraq, formerly LSA Anaconda, Balad Air Base, or Al-Bakir Air Base, is located within the municipality of Yathrib near Balad.As of early 2007 the base was the central hub for airlift and US Air Force operations in Iraq; it was also a major transshipment point for US Army supply convoys.
The militia was formed in Iraq in 2007 to protect Yazidis in Iraq in the wake of attacks by Sunni Islamist insurgents as the Malik Al-Tawus Troop. [10] The Sinjar Resistance Units took part in the August 2014 Northern Iraq offensive , killing at least 22 fighters of the Islamic State and destroying five armored vehicles in the vicinity of the ...