Fact Sheets
An Numaniyah, Iraq
Oct 18, 2007 - 2:45:25 PM

An Numaniyah is a city on the Tigris River in Iraq, located roughly 90 miles southeast of Baghdad in the Wasit Province.

It is also the site of a base that was started as construction by Yugoslavian contractors Mostogradnja in suport of the Hussein regime. Following the beginning of the Iraq War, it changed its purpose September 1, 2004 to operate as a training base for new recruits and serve as the home station for three battalions of the Iraqi Intervention Force – the Iraqi army's counterinsurgency wing.