Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
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.
Liberty (Camp Hurriya) Camp Victory North (Camp Al-Tahreer) Baghdad: Part of the Victory Base Complex Camp: Lima (Baghdad) Camp: Loki: Kurdish Region: Erbil: March 2003: July 2003: Dismantled: Used by Task Force Viking: Camp: Manhattan Camp Habbaniyah: Al Anbar: Habbaniyah Air Base Camp: Marez (Mosul) Nineveh: Camp: Marlboro (Sadr City) Camp ...
On 18 January 2024, the Islamic Resistance of Iraq shot down a US MQ-9 Reaper drone after it took off from Kuwait near Muqdadiyah, Diyala Governorate. [58] [59] On 10 September, two rockets exploded in the vicinity of American personnel stationed in Camp Victory, near Baghdad International Airport. No casualties were reported.
The U.S. initially invaded Iraq in 2003, toppling dictator Saddam Hussein before withdrawing in 2011, but returned in 2014 at the head of the coalition to fight Islamic State.
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.
Iraq urged countries on Monday to repatriate their citizens from a sprawling camp in Syria housing tens of thousands linked to the extremist Islamic State group, saying it has become a “source ...
It was headquartered by the 1st Cavalry Division and based at Camp Victory in Baghdad, Iraq, north of Baghdad International Airport. The brigades controlled by the 1st Cavalry Division included ones north of the city at Taji , in the northeastern part in Adhamiya , at Camp Liberty in the west, in the Green Zone , on the southern outskirts, and ...
The complex contains numerous villas and smaller palaces that at one point housed the largest US/Coalition bases in Iraq (Camp Victory/ Camp Liberty). The palace contains over 62 rooms and 29 bathrooms. [7] Al-Faw Palace was the first palace that the UN teams entered when searching for weapons of mass destruction, but they did not find any.