Anbar () was a town in Iraq, at lat.

Anbar was originally called Firuz Shapur ( Firuz Shabur ; Aramic: פירוז שבור ), or Perisapora and was founded c. 350 by Shapur II, Sassanid king of Persia.

The name of the town was then changed to Anbar (" granaries ").

Low Arab Sunni turnout threatened the legitimacy of the election, which was as low as 2 % in Anbar province.

Lugo was killed in Al Anbar during the Iraq War.

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.

This Cougar ( vehicle ) | Cougar in Al Anbar, Iraq, was hit by a directed charge IED approximately 300 – 500 lbs in size.

His head was placed on the Anbar Gate.

* August 8-United States Marine Jonathan Collins of Crystal Lake, Illinois was KIA in Al Ramadi, located in the Al Anbar Province.

USIP experts were asked to assist the U. S. Army ’ s 10th Mountain Division in the reconciliation effort in Mahmoudiya, located in what was known as “ the Triangle of Death ” in Iraq ’ s western Anbar province.

in 1976 it was renamed Al Anbar Province.

It is believed that the total population of Anbar was between 2 to 6 million people in the 1960s but there is no precise sources because Anbar was a dangerous area at that time and the majority of the residents lived on the banks of the Euphrates River outside cities and the towns, however there were between 1. 9 million and 2. 9 million inhabitants in the other districts of Al Anbar.

During the first four years of Operation Iraqi Freedom ( OIF ), the Anbar Province was the deadliest province for American service members, claiming approximately one-third of American fatalities.

In a country where most were associated with the Shi ’ ia branch of Islam, the Anbar Province was the Sunni stronghold that had long provided Saddam Hussein with the support he needed to remain in power.

Over time, as the U. S. occupation increasingly gained control over Anbar Province, it became apparent that Speicher was never captured.

Low Arab Sunni turnout threatened the legitimacy of the election, which was as low as 2 % in Anbar province.

One challenge to the legitimacy of the election was the low Arab Sunni turnout, which was as low as 2 % in Anbar province.

That year, 10 PRTs were established in Ninewa, at-Ta ' Mim, Salah ad-Din, Diyala, Basra ( UK ), Dhi Qar ( Italy ), Erbil ( South Korea ), Baghdad, Anbar, and Babil.

"' Ayni comments, citing al-Sibt ( b. al-Jawzi ), that Tabari's statement here is surprising since the tombs of the Abbasid caliphs are in fact known, e. g., the tomb of al-Saffah is in Anbar beneath the minbar ; and those of al-Mahdi in Masabadhan, Harun in Tus, al-Ma ' mun in Tarsis, and al-Mu ' tasim, al-Wathiq and al-Mu ' tawakkil in Samarra.

* Operation Abilene ( 2003 ), a US military operation in Al Anbar province in 2003 during the Iraq War

** Garma ( alternate spelling of Al-Karmah ), Al Anbar, Iraq

President George W. Bush received a challenge coin from a Marine combat patrol unit during his short but unexpected visit to Al-Asad Airbase in Anbar province, Iraq, September 3, 2007.

Voter turnout ranged from 89 % in the Kurdish region of Dahuk to two percent in the Sunni region of Anbar.

In July 2006, increased violence and lawlessness in Baghdad, forced the transfer of the 4-14 Cavalry Squadron, U. S. Army, from the cities of Rawah and Anah in the northern Anbar province to Baghdad in order to augment security there.

On 1 June 2006, RKG-3 grenades were used in an attack on an American Humvee, and RKG-3 grenades have been captured by US Marines from insurgents in Al Anbar.

Ar Rutbah (, also known as Rutba, Rutbah, or Ar Rutba ) is an Iraqi town in western Al Anbar province.

* 2004 – Iraq War in Anbar Province-In Fallujah, Iraq, 4 American private military contractors working for Blackwater USA, are killed after being ambushed.

The 2nd Marine Division deployed to Camp Fallujah, Iraq as the II Marine Expeditionary Force ( II MEF ) headquarters in January 2005 as part of Operation Iraqi Freedom III ( OIF III ) ( later redesignated OIF 04-06 ) to relieve the 1st Marine Division in the Al Anbar province.

During the 2003 Iraq War, the desert served as a major supply line for the Iraqi insurgents, with the Iraq portion of the desert becoming a primary stronghold of the Sunni insurgents operating in the Al Anbar Governorate, particularly after the Coalition capture of Fallujah during Operation Phantom Fury.

The Brigade conducted Convoy Security Operations throughout Iraq, Forward Operating Base Security and Life Support, SECFOR Operations at the two major shipping ports in Kuwait, and Combat Patrols, SECFOR Operations in Ramadi, Iraq ( Anbar Province ).

And it so happened that adjacent to a couch on which she had taken refuge was a small table on which she noted a vase of red rosebuds ; ;

Microscopically, there was hyperemia of the central veins, and there was some atrophy of adjacent parenchyma.

The Hieron ( Sanctuary ) of Apollo adjacent to the Sacred Lake, was the place where the god was said to have been born.

An adjacent marker was erected by the San Jacinto Chapter of the Daughters of The Republic of Texas and the Lee, Roberts, and Davis Chapter of the United Daughters of the Confederate States of America.

Synchronous collapse in adjacent regions suggests that the impact of the abrupt climatic change was extensive .".

Animal species diversity was also significantly impacted: in one study, a Harvard biologist found 24 species of birds and 5 species of mammals in a sprayed forest, while in two adjacent sections of unsprayed forest there were 145 and 170 species of birds and 30 and 55 species of mammals.

In March 1880, a report reached India that Abdur Rahman was in northern Afghanistan ; and the governor-general, Lord Lytton, opened communications with him to the effect that the British government were prepared to withdraw their troops, and to recognize Abdur Rahman as Amir of Afghanistan, with the exception of Kandahar and some districts adjacent to it.

The relation between electric current, magnetic fields and physical forces was first noted by Hans Christian Ørsted who, in 1820, observed a compass needle was deflected from pointing North when a current flowed in an adjacent wire.

However it did not have its own minister and it was served, when at all, by the curate of one of the adjacent chapels.

The 43rd Marine Infantry Battalion of the French Army's Troupes de Marine (: fr: 43e bataillon d ' infanterie de marine ) was based in Port Bouet adjacent to the Abidjan Airport from 1979 and had more than 500 troops assigned until 2011, when it appears to have been disbanded.

Later in the same century, Croatia was so weak that its parliament authorized Ferdinand Habsburg to carve out large areas of Croatia and Slavonia adjacent to the Ottoman Empire for the creation of the Military Frontier ( Vojna Krajina, German Militaergrenze ) which would be ruled directly from Vienna's military headquarters.

Like the adjacent Arabic culture ( in the pre-Islamic period ), the act of marriage appears mainly to have consisted of the groom fetching the bride, although among the Israelites ( unlike the Arabs ) the procession was a festive occasion, accompanied by music, dancing, and lights.

As there was already a team named Fulham in the borough, the name of the adjacent borough of Chelsea was chosen for the new club, having also considered names like Kensington FC, Stamford Bridge FC and London FC.

There was no room for the new Avery unit in Schlesinger's small studio, so Avery, Jones, and fellow animators Bob Clampett, Virgil Ross, and Sid Sutherland were moved into a small adjacent building they dubbed " Termite Terrace ".

Hadrian's temple had actually been located there because it was the junction of the main north-south road with one of the two main east-west roads and directly adjacent to the forum ( which is now the location of the ( smaller ) Muristan ); the forum itself had been placed, as is traditional in Roman towns, at the junction of the main north-south road with the ( other ) main east-west road ( which is now El-Bazar / David Street ).

Around this time, the county of the City of Dublin was established along with certain liberties adjacent to the city proper.

Thus, before the Aswan High Dam was completed in 1971, the White Nile watered the Egyptian stretch of the river throughout the year, whereas the Blue Nile, carrying seasonal rain from Ethiopia, caused the Nile to overflow its banks and deposit a layer of fertile mud over adjacent fields.

Amy Kelly, in her article “ Eleanor of Aquitaine and her Courts of Love ”, gives a very plausible description of the origins of the rules of Eleanor's court: “ in the Poitevin code, man is the property, the very thing of woman ; whereas a precisely contrary state of things existed in the adjacent realms of the two kings from whom the reigning duchess of Aquitaine was estranged .”

In Finland, the term " Finlandization " was perceived as blunt criticism, stemming from an inability to understand the practicalities of how a small nation needs to deal with an adjacent superpower, without losing its sovereignty.

To avoid allegations that it was still in occupation of any part of the Gaza Strip, Israel also withdrew from the Philadelphi Route, which is a narrow strip adjacent to the Strip's border with Egypt, after Egypt's agreement to secure its side of the border.