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Balad Ruz
Balad Ruz () is a city located some 120 km (75 mi) northeast of Baghdad in the Diyala Governorate of Iraq. Balad Ruz has a radio station that was opened on 18 December 2006, known as Al Noor Radio Station, meaning "The Light" in Arabic. The current commander of all Iraqi Army ground forces Lt. General Ali Ghaidan Majid is from Balad Ruz. History Balad Ruz was historically known as Barāz al-Rūz, a name meaning "the rice field". Although its origin is unclear, the city has been continuously inhabited from at least Abbasid Caliphate, Abbasid times to the present day. The Abbasid Caliphate, caliph Al-Mu'tadid built a palace here. In 1340, Hamdallah Mustawfi noted that it paid 20,000 dinars annually to the treasury in Baghdad. Balad Ruz continued to prosper through the late 1700s, when it was described by an observer as a large town under the control of Baghdad. When Felix Jones surveyed the area in the mid-1800s, he noted that the Rūz canal, on which the city lay, en ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Governorates Of Iraq
Iraq consists of 19 governorates (; ), also known as "provinces". Per the Iraqi constitution, governorates can form a Federal regions of Iraq, federal region. Four governorates, Erbil, Sulaymaniyah, Halabja and Duhok, constitute the semi-autonomous Kurdistan Region. Baghdad Governorate, Baghdad (which is the most populous) and Basra Governorate, Basra are the oldest governorates. The second most-populous one, Nineveh Governorate, Ninawa (or Nineveh) is in the upland region and has a cooler climate of the north-west. There have been numerous calls to recognize Halabja Governorate since 1999. It was recognized as an official governorate of the Kurdistan Region in 2014, and the Council of Ministers (Iraq), Council of Ministers approved a bill twice in 2013, and 2023. The Council of Representatives of Iraq officially approved Halabja as Iraq's 19th governorate on 14 April 2025. On 27 April 2025, Baghdad Today reported of an ongoing government initiative to convert Tel Afar District ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Multi-National Force – Iraq
The Multi-National Force – Iraq (MNF–I), often referred to as the Coalition forces, was a U.S.-led military command during the Iraq War from 2004 to 2009. The vast majority of MNF-I was made up of United States Army forces. However it also supervised British, Australian, Polish, Spanish, and other countries' forces. It replaced the previous force, Combined Joint Task Force 7, on 15 May 2004. It was significantly reinforced during the Iraq War troop surge of 2007. MNF-I was reorganized into its successor, United States Forces – Iraq, on 1 January 2010. The United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq, which does humanitarian work and has a number of guards and military observers, has also operated in Iraq since 2003. The U.N. Assistance Mission in Iraq was not a part of the MNF-I, but a separate entity. The NATO Training Mission – Iraq, was in Iraq from 2004 to December 2011, where it trained the Iraqi Army and the Iraqi Police. History The MNF-I's objectives, as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Balad Ruz
Balad Ruz () is a city located some 120 km (75 mi) northeast of Baghdad in the Diyala Governorate of Iraq. Balad Ruz has a radio station that was opened on 18 December 2006, known as Al Noor Radio Station, meaning "The Light" in Arabic. The current commander of all Iraqi Army ground forces Lt. General Ali Ghaidan Majid is from Balad Ruz. History Balad Ruz was historically known as Barāz al-Rūz, a name meaning "the rice field". Although its origin is unclear, the city has been continuously inhabited from at least Abbasid Caliphate, Abbasid times to the present day. The Abbasid Caliphate, caliph Al-Mu'tadid built a palace here. In 1340, Hamdallah Mustawfi noted that it paid 20,000 dinars annually to the treasury in Baghdad. Balad Ruz continued to prosper through the late 1700s, when it was described by an observer as a large town under the control of Baghdad. When Felix Jones surveyed the area in the mid-1800s, he noted that the Rūz canal, on which the city lay, en ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ghanem Abass Ibraham Al-Qureshy
Ghanem is an Arabic masculine given name and a surname. The Ghanem family is descended from Jafna ibn Amr of the Azd Dynasty, one of the oldest Pre-Islamic communities that inhabited southwestern Arabia, mainly Yemen, and the Al-Bahah and 'Asir provinces in Saudi Arabia. Following the Ma'rib dam break during the 3rd century, they scattered between modern-day Saudi Arabia and the Levant. Jafna settled in Roman-ruled Syria and established the Kingdom of the Ghassanids, which disappeared in 635 when the area was conquered by Muslims. They were so named after a spring of water where they stopped on their way to Syria. His descendants adopted Christianity and became allied to the Byzantine Empire. Meanwhile, his brother, Thalabah ibn Amr, settled in Hijaz and his descendants became the Ansaris, the local inhabitants of Medina who took the Islamic prophet Muhammad and his followers into their homes when they emigrated from Mecca during the Hijra. In Lebanon, the family descends di ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Provincial Director Of Police
The Iraqi Police (IP) is the uniformed police force responsible for the enforcement of civil law in Iraq. Its organisation, structure and recruitment were guided by the Coalition Provisional Authority after the 2003 American invasion of Iraq, and it is commanded by the reformed Iraqi Ministry of the Interior. "IP" refers to the Iraqi Police, and "ISF" to the broader Iraqi security forces, In 1922, the General Police Directorate was established under an Iraqi administration. The current commander of the Federal Police Forces is Lieutenant General Raed Shaker Jawdat. History The current Iraqi Police has some links with the pre-war Iraqi police service, which was professional and low in repression priority. Therefore, the police were expected to remain cohesive and to be a useful instrument after the invasion as well. It was intended to form the basis for the police force of the new Iraq, but the civil disorder caused this project to be abandoned. Following the emergency stipe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shakur Halaim Husain
Shakur is a surname and rarely used as a name like Shakir. Also, it is from one of the names of God in Islam, '' Ash-Shakur''. Notable people with the name include: Surname * 'Abd Allah II ibn 'Ali 'Abd ash-Shakur (died 1930), Ethiopian emir * Afeni Shakur (1947–2016), American activist * Assata Shakur (born 1947), American activist * Mopreme Shakur (born 1969), American rapper * Muhammad ibn 'Ali 'Abd ash-Shakur (died 1875), Ethiopian emir * Mustafa Shakur (born 1984), American basketball player * Mutulu Shakur (1950-2023), Black Liberation Army leader * Sanyika Shakur (1963–2021), Los Angeles gang member * Tupac Shakur (1971–1996), American rapper and actor Given name * Shakur Brown (born 1999), American football player *Shakur Stevenson (born 1997), American professional boxer See also *Shakir Shakir is both a surname and a given name originating from Arabic, similar to the surname or name Shakur. The feminine form of Shakir is Shakira. Notable people with the name in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
5th Iraqi Army Division
The 5th Division ('Iron Division') is a military formation of the Iraqi Army. The division is currently deployed in eastern Iraq – predominantly Diyala Governorate. Following the losses suffered by the Iraqi Army during fighting in the Northern Iraq offensive (June 2014), ISIL campaign in Northern Iraq, the Iraqi security forces became increasingly reliant on non-state militia units – the Popular Mobilization Forces (Iraq), Popular Mobilization Forces. As of October 2015, Reuters reported that the 5th Division reported to the PMF command hierarchy, chain of command, instead of the official military hierarchy. History Ba'athist Iraq Originally formed in 1959 as a mechanised division, it was part of the 3rd Corps (Iraq) in 1978, located at Basra and comprising the 15th (Basra), 19th (Sibay), and 20th Mechanised Brigades, according to British military attaches' reporting. It would later fight in the Iran–Iraq War, and in the Gulf War, Persian Gulf War (including at the Battle o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
