• Al-Waleed border crossing (Arabic: نقطة الوليد الحدودية العراقية, romanized: Nuqṭa al-Walīd al-Ḥudūdiyya al-ʿIrāqiyya) is one of three official border...
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    of al-Waleed border crossing. At the end of December 2017, the chief of the Russian General Staff Valery Gerasimov said that the U.S. garrison at al-Tanf...
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    Iraqi side of the border. The Al Waleed border crossing, known in Syria as al-Tanf, is located in the Ar-Rutba District of the Al Anbar Governorate,...
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  • Al-Murassant air base is a small military airport located in Rutbah District, western Iraq, 70 kilometers east of the al-Waleed border crossing near Syria...
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  • Sabaa Biyar (redirect from Al-Sabe' Biyar)
    to the al-Waleed border crossing with Iraq, with no other localities in its vicinity. It is the administrative center and only locality in the al-Sabe'...
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  • Al-Waleed (Arabic: مخيم الوليد) is a makeshift Palestinian refugee camp in Iraq, near the border with Syria and the al-Tanf Crossing, and not far from...
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    government and Hezbollah control over the northern Qalamoun region and the border crossings from Lebanon to Syria. In June 2015, some reports suggested that the...
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  • Akashat ambush (category Iraq–Syria border)
    al-Waleed border crossing, located in Iraq's Al Anbar Governorate. The incident took place on 4 March 2013, while the convoy was on its way to the al-Waleed...
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  • the al Waleed border crossing (al-Tanf). Shia Islam portal Iraq portal Asia portal List of armed groups in the Syrian Civil War Liwa Abu al-Fadhal al-Abbas...
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    suspected Syrian rebels opened fire on two Iraqi border posts less than 2 km from the Al-Waleed border crossing, killing a police officer and injuring two others...
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    checkpoint". CNN. Retrieved 6 July 2016. "FSA claims captured Al-Waleed border crossing in Iraq after clashes with ISIS / Photos". 15 May 2016. Retrieved...
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    Anbar campaign (2013–2014) (category History of Al Anbar Governorate)
    and two new border crossings, one with Syrian and one with Jordan. On 23 June, government forces recaptured the Al-Waleed border crossing with Syria after...
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  • FSA group, the Forces of Martyr Ahmad al-Abdo, captured the al-Tanf border crossing from ISIL in a cross-border raid from Jordan. In May 2016, an Islamic...
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  • recaptured the Al-Waleed border crossing. 24 June: The Syrian Air Force bombed ISIL positions in Iraq for the first time. Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki...
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    ez-Zor and Eastern Syria campaign on the opposite side of the Al-Qa'im border crossing. Al-Qa'im was known as a hotbed of jihadist insurgency, after the...
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    opposition groups attacked them. ISIL attacked the Al-Tanf military base near the Al Waleed border crossing on 8 April, first striking the base with a car...
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    Force hit FSA convoys and their rearguard headquarters at the al-Tanf border crossing, and on 12 May Iraqi Shi'ite militias launched an offensive from...
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    2023-07-11. UN Report Archived 2011-09-28 at the Wayback Machine Sweileh, Waleed M.; Al-Jabi, Samah W.; Sawalha, Ansam F.; Zyoud, Sa'ed H. (2009-04-07). "Pharmacy...
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    of the September 11 hijackers, Khalid Saeed Ahmad al-Zahrani (often misspelled as Zaharni) was an al-Qaeda member, held in extrajudicial detention in the...
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  • Opposition–Islamic State conflict during the Syrian civil war (category Military operations of the Syrian civil war involving the al-Nusra Front)
    Northern Storm Brigade (FSA)-held border town of Azaz north of Aleppo and the nearby Bab al-Salameh border crossing with Turkey (which served as an important...
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    1976, p. 151-152. Akram, A. I. (1970). The Sword of Allah: Khalid bin al-Waleed, His Life and Campaigns. Nat. Publishing House. Rawalpindi. ISBN 0-7101-0104-X...
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    Twitter in November 2015, by Abu al-Waleed al-Salafi, stated that "a number of leaders of the group, including Abu Hashim Al Ibrahim, the emir of the group...
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  • April 2008 when it received 117 from the Al-Waleed refugee camp on the Syria–Iraq border near the Al-Tanf crossing. All of those refugees were Sunni Muslims...
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    Saud bin Abdulaziz Al Saud (Arabic: سعود بن عبد العزيز آل سعود, romanized: Suʿūd bin ʿAbd al ʿAzīz Āl Suʿūd; 15 January 1902 – 23 February 1969) was King...
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    amid the 2008–2009 Israel–Gaza conflict, Kuwaiti member of parliament Waleed Al-Tabtabaie proposed moving Arab League headquarters to Caracas, Venezuela...
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    recruiter and fighter who died in Aleppo on 1 December 2015. Waleed Jaseem al-Alwani – "Abu Ahmad al-Alwani", member of Military Shura, Iraqi, killed 27 December...
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  • strategically important, as it lies 150 km east of the Al Waleed border crossing with Syria, and 250 km south of Al-Qa'im. May 22 – Beginning of the Third Battle...
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  • detained by Israel Defense Forces while he was heading to the Rafah border crossing in an attempt to evacuate from the Gaza Strip with his family. Initial...
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    bin al-Waleed, His Life and Campaigns. Rawalpindi: Nat. Publishing House. ISBN 0-7101-0104-X. Akram, A. I. (2004). The Sword of Allah: Khalid bin al-Waleed...
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  • Prosopographical Research. ISBN 978-1-900934-13-8. Akram, A. I. (2007). Khalid Bin Al-Waleed, Sword of Allah: A Biographical Study of One of the Greatest Military...
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