Baiyaa (Bayaa’) is a a middle-class district in western Baghdad, Iraq along the Baghdad Airport Road. It containes a separate Sunni and Shiite enclaves within it. It has been calm during theIraq War, but many stores have closed and both Shiite and Sunni families from Baiyaa have fled the neighborhood in May 2007 as violence increased. Baghdad International Airport and the Green Zone The Baghdad Airport Road is a 12 kilometer (7. ...
Baiyaa has a Shiite majority but is also the main commercial center of the Sunni-dominated Triangle of Death. Baiyaa's Sunnis are mostly drawn from the Janabi clan. The Triangle of Death is a name given by U.S. and allied forces during the 2003-2004 occupation of Iraq to a region south of Baghdad which saw major combat activity during the last months of 2004. ...
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