Habbaniyah

Habbaniyah

Al Habbaniyah or Habbaniya or Habanyah (Arabic: الحبانية) is a city in Al Anbar province in Iraq, about 90km west of Baghdad. It is close to Ramadi and Al Khaldiya.

Habbaniya is now also the site of a major United States military base known as Al Taqaddum. This military airbase is across the flood relief canal, up on the plateau where the Royal Air Force built an additional airfield, RAF Habbaniya, in 1953. Habbaniya itself remains a military base and is responsible for the training of the new Sunni 5000 which is a drive by the Iraqi Ministry of Defence to incorporate Sunni Iraqis into the military to make it more representative. The base had its first graduation of recruits in May 2006.


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