As of March 2006, the area of Hawija was considered one of the most dangerous in all of Iraq with US soldiers and the foreign press corps in Baghdad dubbing Hawija "Anbar of the North," a reference to the violence wracked province in Western Iraq.
Operation Marne Courageous was conducted by the United States 101st Airborne Division and Iraqi Security Forces between 16 - 19 November 2007 in Anbar province, Iraq.
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These Marines were deployed back to the Al Anbar Province and conducted operations near and around the Haditha Dam.
Abdul Sattar Abu Risha (1972-2007), an Iraqi Sunni tribal sheikh and leader of the Anbar Salvation Council
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Ahmed Abu Risha, brother of Abdul Sattar Abu Risha who took over as leader of the Anbar Salvation Council
Adnan died after Nebuchadnezzar II returned to Babylon, after that his son Ma'ad moved away to the region of Central-Western Hijaz after the destruction of the Qedarite kingdom near Mesopotamia, and the remaining Qedarite Arabs there were displaced from their lands and forced to live in Al-Anbar province and the on the banks of the Euphratesriver under the rule of the Neo-Babylonian Empire.
The National Front was led by Sheikh Ali Hatim, the tribal leader of the Dulaim tribal confederation - the largest in Anbar - and has previously clashed with Abu Risha's brother, Abdul Sattar Abu Risha, when he was the head of the Anbar Salvation Council.
Shortly after the invasion in 2003, Sunni tribal leaders and former Ba'athists, led by members of the Al-Kharbit (Khalifa) and Al-Gaoud (Nimr) families met to select former Ba'ath General Karim Burjis as their unofficial leader and new Governor of Anbar Province.
Ar Ar, border-crossing point between Iraq (Anbar province) and Saudi Arabia
The training camp, located in a remote region near Lake Tharthar, which is next to the Sunni Anbar and Salahuddin provinces, was the largest guerrilla training camp that had been discovered in the war by then, according to Iraqi officials.
On 15 March 1983 he was first elected to the Parliament for his district Anbar; in his longtime tenure as parliament member Scotty was the chairman of the Bank of Nauru, the Nauru Rehabilitation Corporation and in the board of directors of Air Nauru.
Following the 2013 Al Anbar governorate election, Salih was rumoured to be a candidate supported by the Uniters List for the position of Governor of Anbar.
Operation Abilene (2003) - a US military operation in Al Anbar province in 2003 during the Iraq War.
As of October 2008, thirteen provinces had successfully completed transition to provincial Iraqi control: al Muthanna, Dhi Qar, Najaf, Maysan, Dahuk, Arbil, Sulaymaniyah, Karbala, Basra, Al-Qadisiyah, Al-Anbar, Babil and Wasit.
The Ghulam Ishaq Khan Institute of Engineering Sciences and Technology is located in the village of Topi and University of SWABI is located in village Anbar Karnal Sher Khan Cadet College Swabi is located in the village of Ismaila.
Thamer Nayef al-Hathal (born 1973), mayor of the town of Nukhayb, Al Anbar Province, Iraq