Latifiya ( ar, اللطيفية), named after Latifiya river, is an
Iraq
Iraq,; ku, عێراق, translit=Êraq officially the Republic of Iraq, '; ku, کۆماری عێراق, translit=Komarî Êraq is a country in Western Asia. It is bordered by Turkey to Iraq–Turkey border, the north, Iran to Iran–Iraq ...
i town south of
Baghdad
Baghdad (; ar, بَغْدَاد , ) is the capital of Iraq and the second-largest city in the Arab world after Cairo. It is located on the Tigris near the ruins of the ancient city of Babylon and the Sassanid Persian capital of Ctesiphon ...
, between
Mahmoudiyah and
Iskandariya, inhabited originally by 97,043 people.
It has a mix of Sunni and Shia Muslim population, and surrounded by in the west and the east by rural areas dominated by Sunni Arabs, while its countryside and towns to the north and south are Shia in their majority.
During the period between 2003 and 2007, Latifiya was one of the most dangerous places for the
Coalition Forces
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. The insurgent groups operated almost freely in Latifiya and the neighboring Sunni dominated
Yusufiya
Yusufiyah ( ar, اليوسفية, al-Yūsufīyah; also transliterated as Yusafiyah, Youssifiyah or Yusifiyah, occasionally prefixed with Al-) is a regional township in the Baghdad Governorate of Iraq.
Background
Yusufiyah is named after Yūsuf ( ...
. Nearly all of the Shia citizens were ethnically cleansed, being chased off to
Mahmoudiyah,
Nasiriya and
Iskandariya nearby. They returned after the end of the civil war and the defeat of the Sunni by 2007. In 2014–15, the
ISIS
Isis (; ''Ēse''; ; Meroitic: ''Wos'' 'a''or ''Wusa''; Phoenician: 𐤀𐤎, romanized: ʾs) was a major goddess in ancient Egyptian religion whose worship spread throughout the Greco-Roman world. Isis was first mentioned in the Old Kin ...
jihadists once again expelled the Shia population. With their defeat in 2017, once again the Shia returned, but this time it was the turn for the Sunni population to be harassed and deported.
It is home to the 1/4/6 Iraqi Army Battalion and US Patrol Base Latifiya (FOB ROW).
References
Populated places in Babil Governorate
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