Habbaniyah
Al Habbaniyah or Habbaniya is a city 85 km west of Baghdad in Al-Anbar Province, in central Iraq. A military airfield, RAF Habbaniya, was the site of a battle in 1941, during World War II. Lake Habbaniyah is also nearby.
History
On 25 May 1941, during the Anglo-Iraqi War, the Second Battalion of the Fourth Gurkha Rifles, forming part of the 10 Indian Infantry Division, was airlifted to reinforce and secure Habbaniyah, which was a Royal Air Force airfield under threat from Iraqi ground troops and the German Luftwaffe, located in Mosul, and Baghdad.It has 74,217 citizens.