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Bookmark or Share- Inside one day's fierce battle in Iraq - CSMonitor.comBaqubah is as close to a front line as it gets in Iraq's messy, urban guerrilla war. A fiercely contested city of 292,000, it is a key stronghold and way station for insurgents headed 35 miles ...
- Baqubah - WikipediaBaqubah (Arabic: بَعْقُوبَة; BGN: Ba‘qūbah; also spelled Baquba and Baqouba) is the capital of Iraq's Diyala Governorate. The city is located some 50 km (31 mi) to the northeast of Baghdad , on the Diyala River .
- Diyala Governorate - WikipediaBy mid-2007 the Islamic State of Iraq, already holding Baqubah and most of the province under its control, declared its capital to be Baqubah. The Sunni insurgent group Ansar al-Islam was also active in the region around this time.
- The Battle of Baqubah I - FDD's Long War JournalBaqubah (Ripper Arrowhead) has four US and three ISF Bdes directly involved and rates that definition on its own. There are three other operations ongoing under MNC-I’s overall “Phantom Thunder”.
- Battle of Baqubah - WikipediaThe Battle of Baqubah II (March–August 2007) took place during the Iraq War in the capital of the Iraqi province Diyala, to the north-east of Baghdad. It began in early March 2007, when U.S. and Iraqi forces commenced preliminary operations to "establish a presence in Diyala beyond their Forward Operating Base".
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