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{{dablink|This article is about the city. For the district, see Ramadi (district). Ramadi (Arabic: الرمادي; BGN: Ar Ramādī) is a city in central Iraq, about 110 kilometers (68 mi) west of Baghdad. It is the capital of Al Anbar province.[2] The Arabic alphabet is the script used for writing languages such as Arabic, Persian, Urdu, and others. ...
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Al Anbar (Arabic: ‎; or Anbar) is the largest province in Iraq geographically. ...
Ramadi is a district in Al Anbar, Iraq. ...
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Baghdad (Arabic: ) is the capital of Iraq and of Baghdad Governorate. ...
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Ramadi is considered to be the southwest point of Iraq's Sunni Triangle. It has been a focal point of terrorist activity against US and Iraqi security forces. Because it hosts the main railway line into Syria, it has long been suspected by American commanders of being a staging area for terrorist activity. Map of the Sunni Triangle The Sunni Triangle refers to a roughly triangular area of Iraq to the northwest of Baghdad. ...
Ramadi's population has been stated as 444,582 according to UN data from 2003. [3]. According to the former regime there are about 700 thousand inhabitants.[4]
People All the inhabitants are Sunni Muslims from Dulaim tribe. Sunni Islam (Arabic سنّة) is the largest denomination of Islam. ...
Wartime Military Control
Description of the city To the north and west, Ramadi is bounded by the Euphrates River, while to the east and south it gradually disappears into suburbs. With a population of more than 500,000, the city is too large for the U.S. and Iraqi military presence to dominate on a day-to-day basis, allowing resistance groups to persist. U.S. units have always been largely restricted to a handful of small bases, where they have endured shelling and sniper fire of varying intensity. The largest base, in the northern corner of Ramadi, is on the grounds of one of two Saddam-era palaces in the city; known first as Tactical Assembly Area Rifles and later as Camp Blue Diamond, this base was turned over to the Iraqi Army in the spring of 2006. At the other end of the stretch of Highway 10 that runs through Ramadi is another Saddam-era palace, named the Combat Outpost by its first American residents (Florida National Guard). For the song River Euphrates by the Pixies, see Surfer Rosa. ...
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Several smaller buildings along Highway 10 between the two larger bases are routinely occupied by U.S. and Iraqi units, and just outside the city there are a number of other, less dangerous and better equipped camps, where an Army brigade headquarters and its support units are based.
March 2003 - July 2007  Iraqi insurgents operate openly in the municipality of Ramadi During the Iraq War, in March 2003 to July 2007, a series of operations by US forces, was not successful in driving resistance from Ramadi. For other uses, see Iraq war (disambiguation). ...
During this period of time 1-124th Infantry was responsible for most of Ramadi's AO (Area of Operations), including the central area. Members of the Battalion received many injuries but none were fatal. Most of them were due to IEDs and firefights with terrorist groups. Image File history File links Ramadi_at_dawn. ...
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The 3rd ACR controlled other sectors to the west of Ramadi. The Florida Guard conducted most of the city patrols and manned many observation posts located throughout the city. The 3d Armored Cavalry Regiment is a regiment of the United States Army currently stationed at Fort Hood, TX, near the city of Killeen. ...
February 2004 - April 2005
 1BCT 1ID Soldiers during OIF 2 The 3rd ACR departed Ramadi in September 2003, handing it over to the 1st Brigade Combat Team, 1st Infantry Division (1st BCT, 1st ID) of Fort Riley, Kansas; however, until March, the 1st BCT fell under the command of the 82nd Airborne Division. In March, the 1st Marine Division deployed to Anbar, replacing the 82nd. While Army units in Iraq complete year-long tours, Marine units stay for seven months; in Ramadi, one Marine battalion typically augments an Army brigade. During the first half of 2004, 1st BCT's two battalions (1-16th Infantry, 1-34th Armor) were augmented by the 2nd Battalion 4th Marines. When 2/4 left in September, they handed their sector of Ramadi over to the 2nd Battalion 5th Marines, who completed their tour in April 2005, then 1st Battalion 5th Marines took over. Image File history File links Size of this preview: 800 × 531 pixelsFull resolution (3585 × 2379 pixel, file size: 1. ...
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The spring of 2004 was particularly bloody in Ramadi. In the opening days of the rebellion that began in April 2004, and which was dominated by the siege of Fallujah, 2/4 suffered one of the deadliest attacks of the war, losing 12 Marines in a single day. During this time, with most of the 1st Marine Division's resources focused on Fallujah, 1-16 Infantry was left with the burden of controlling Ramadi; for the most part, the four battalions occupying the Ramadi-Fallujah corridor (including the insurgent den of Khaldiyah) hunkered down and defended what ground they already held along the city's central thoroughfare. The remainder of the month would also prove costly for resistance groups, as between 800-1000 would be killed in running battles with the Marines, and the 1-16 Infantry. Combatants United States Iraqi insurgents Commanders James T. Conway Abu Musab al-Zarqawi Strength 1,200[1] 3,000 - 6,000 Casualties 83 KIA , WIA 90+ (U.S) [1] 615 military and civilian KIA Operation Vigilant Resolve, sometimes referred to as the First Battle of/for Fallujah was an abortive...
Fallujah skyline before November 2004 battle Fallujah (Arabic: ; sometimes transliterated as Falluja or Fallouja) is a city in the Iraqi province of Al Anbar, located roughly 69 km (43 miles) west of Baghdad on the Euphrates. ...
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April 2005 - April 2006 Marine and Army units in Ramadi rotate on overlapping schedules; thus, just as 1 BCT arrived well before the 1st Marine Division officially began OIF 2, so the 2nd Brigade, 2nd Infantry Division (2-2 ID) arrived in August 2004, while the 1st Marine Division was still in charge of Anbar. Working first with the Marines from 2/5 and later with their replacements, 1/5 (who in turn were replaced by the 3rd Battalion 7th Marines (3/7)), the 2-2 ID's four battalions (the 1-9th Infantry, 2-17th Field Artillery, 1-503rd Infantry, and 1-506th Infantry) continued the previous units' work until August 2005. During this period the brigade and the Marine battalions that worked with it continued to suffer steady casualties. Unlike the mechanized 1BCT 1ID, 2-2 ID was mostly a light-infantry brigade (1-9 Infantry is a mechanized infantry battalion), whose only tanks came from one company (Death Dealer Company) of the 2-72nd Armor. Among the Army Combat Support units in Ramadi during this period were 2nd Platoon, 2nd Military Police Company as well as HHC and B Company, 983rd Engineer Combat Battalion (Heavy), who greatly improved quality of life and force protection at American and Iraqi camps, as well as providing security and support for the first democratic elections and the subsequently elected government in Ramadi. The 2nd Infantry Division (Heavy) is a formation of the United States Army. ...
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April 2006 - July 2006 2-2 ID was replaced by the Pennsylvania National Guard's 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 28th Infantry Division (2-28th BCT). When it arrived in August 2005 beside the Marines of 3/7, the 2-28th BCT came equipped for heavy fighting; it brought six battalions rather than three (3-103rd Armor, 1-104th Cavalry, 1-109th Infantry, 1-110th Infantry, 1-172nd Armor) and [876 Engineer Battalion], all of which were "heavy" units equipped with tanks and Bradley fighting vehicles. The 2-222nd FA from the Utah Army National Guard provide counterfire, base defense and route security as well, firing over 4,000 rounds of artillery during the one year tour. They were the first National Guard unit to fire the Paladin weapon system in combat operations. During September 2005, the 2-28th BCT suffered casualties as terrorist groups were pushed downriver by Marine offensives near Al Qaim and in the area around Haditha. As a result, the 2-28th BCT was soon reinforced further, with the 2-69th Armor, a battle-hardened 3rd Infantry Division unit, being sent to it from Baqubah. The 2-69th Armor remained in Ramadi until February. The Pennsylvania National Guard is comprised of the Pennsylvania Army National Guard and the Pennsylvania Air National Guard. ...
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Located nearly 400km northwest of Baghdad near the Syrian border, al-Qaim was reportedly the site of Iraqs refined Uranium Ore production from 1984 through 1990; it was completely destroyed during a 1991 US bombing campaign during the Gulf War. ...
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In March 2006, as 3rd Battalion 8th Marines arrived to replace 3/7, violence again began to escalate in Ramadi, with U.S. casualties spiking. With the 2-69th gone, the 2-28th BCT was again reinforced to help damp the terrorist activity, this time by the 1-506th Infantry, a newly arrived unit of the 101st Airborne Division that was transferred to Ramadi from Baghdad's Sadr City. During March 2006 two soldiers from the 75th Ranger Regiment were killed in Ramadi, possibly indicating that elements of the secretive Task Force 145 (which later helped to kill Abu Musab al-Zarqawi) were present in the city. Additionally, at least 200 terrorists were killed by Army Ranger and 101st Airborne units during the month of April. 3rd Battalion 8th Marines (3/8) is an infantry battalion in the United States Marine Corps based out of Camp Lejeune, North Carolina consisting of approximately 1000 Marines and Sailors. ...
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As the summer of 2006 arrived, the level of terrorist attacks in Ramadi remained the highest in the country. As a result, rumors of an impending Fallujah-style assault sprang up in the Arab media. Combatants United States Iraqi Security Forces Iraqi insurgents Tawhid wal Jihad Commanders Maj. ...
In early June 2006, 2-28th BCT completed its year long deployment and the 1st Brigade Combat Team, 1st Armored Division was shifted from Tal Afar in Northern Iraq to replace the departing Pennsylvanian National Guardsmen. 2nd Battalion, 37th Armored Regiment remained in Tal Afar. To reinforce the 1st BCT, 1st Armored Division General Casey ordered the deployment to Ramadi of two of his three strategic reserve battalions (the 1-6th Infantry and 1-35th Armor,and also the A Co. 40th Engineer company from the 2nd BCT, 1st Armored Division in Kuwait). George William Casey, Jr. ...
On June 18, 2006, the 1st BCT, 1st Armored Division launched its offensive. Despite fears that the assault would be a repeat of the Marine offensive in Fallujah, the brigade took a different approach, discouraging residents from fleeing and moving in slowly with much more limited use of heavy weapons such as Abrams tanks,artillery, and close air support. As the offensive opened, two columns of U.S. mechanized troops pushed north into the city's suburbs with Iraqi Army units, cutting off two major entrances to the city for the first time during the war; meanwhile, 3rd Battalion 8th Marines held onto the western half of the downtown area and patrolled the river and its two bridges (the only northbound exits from the city) on foot and in boats, and the 1-506th Infantry, 1-6th Infantry, 1-35th Armor and 40th Engineers continued to hold the main thoroughfare and the eastern exits. As the operation began, there was controversy over the number of refugees who left the city despite the U.S. military's assurances that the offensive would be of a very different character than the Fallujah assault of 2004. For other uses, see Artillery (disambiguation). ...
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1/1 AD and forces under its command proceeded to establish a series of mutually supporting combat outposts manned by US and Iraqi forces both inside and outside the city. These outposts put increasing pressure on Al Qaeda and their allies. On 24 July, the enemy struck back against the new outposts, launching 20 attacks in less than half an hour against positions in all five task force areas of operation, but suffered heavy casualties in the attempt.
The Anbar Awakening Initial outreach efforts to the local tribes made it possible to establish the first new Iraqi Police station in the Ramadi Area, manned by locally recruited former Police, placed where the Sheikhs thought they would do the most good. In late August, Al Qaeda shifted tactics and attacked the police station and murdered the sheikh of the tribe most responsible for manning it. Al Qaeda made two mistakes: they assumed that the new police would quit, which didn't happen; and they violated Arab custom by leaving the body of the murdered sheikh where it could not be found for days. Al Qaeda thought that this would intimidate the anti-AQ tribes, but it had the opposite effect, enraging the cooperative tribal leaders. On 7 September, eleven sheikhs met to form a plan to band together against Al Qaeda and to work more closely with the Coalition. June 2006 photo of an Iraqi policeman guarding the governors house in Samawah. ...
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On 14 September, these tribal leaders met with the 1/1 AD Brigade Commander and formed the Al Anbar Awakening movement. The brigade commander, Colonel Sean MacFarland, immediately pledged coalition support to the movement. After that, the numbers of recruits for the Iraqi Security Forces increased dramatically, attacks against coalition forces dropped precipitously, and other tribes began to come forward to cooperate with the Coalition against Al Qaeda, spreading across Al Anbar province and beyond. Awakening movements in Iraq are coalitions between tribal Sheikhs in a particular province in Iraq that unite to ensure security. ...
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By summer 2007, Ramadi had gone weeks without significant conflict or attacks, and has become a functioning capital of Al Anbar again. It is considered the most prominent success story of the counterterrorist campaign to date. [5] “The New Way Forward†redirects here. ...
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Al Anbar (Arabic: ‎; or Anbar) is the largest province in Iraq geographically. ...
This article is about the city. ...
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Fallujah skyline before November 2004 battle Fallujah (Arabic: ; sometimes transliterated as Falluja or Fallouja) is a city in the Iraqi province of Al Anbar, located roughly 69 km (43 miles) west of Baghdad on the Euphrates. ...
This article is about the city. ...
Ar Rutba (Arabic:الرطب, also known as Rutba, Rutbah, or Ar Rutbah) is a small Iraqi town in western Al Anbar province. ...
AÅŸ ÅžaqlÄwÄ«yah (Arabic:) is a town in Al Anbar Province, in central Iraq. ...
Lake Habbaniyah, known in Iraq as Hawr al-Habbaniyah, is a shallow natural lake in al-Anbar, Iraq. ...
Map of southwestern Anbar Governorate An Nukhayb is a city in the Al Anbar governorate of Iraq. ...
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External links - Some Ramadi Stories
- Ramadi photographic slide show Richard Mills 31 August, 2007. www.timesonline.co.uk
- Iraqi-Mail: The Voice from Ramadi
- Terror from the sky, horror from the ground: The view from Ramadi - April 25, 2007
- Five Marines killed by roadside bomb - September 28, 2005
- A company commander's perspective on Ramadi
- To find out the number of war casualties from Ramadi
- Insurgents hamper U.S., Iraqi forces in Ramadi - May 22, 2006
- The New Band of Brothers - June 19, 2006
- Return to Ramadi, November 27, 2006
- Gunbattle with U.S. Soldiers Turns Deadly - Ramadi, November 28, 2006
- GNA's entry
- The Band of Brothers in Ramadi (video)
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