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    al-Ilah, learned of a plot to arrest him and fled Baghdad for RAF Habbaniya. From Habbaniya he was flown to Basra and given refuge on the gunboat HMS Cockchafer...
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  • Habbaniya can refer to: Habbaniyah, a city in Al Anbar Governorate, Iraq Lake Habbaniyah, a lake in Iraq RAF Habbaniya, a former Royal Air Force airbase...
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    Royal Air Force Habbaniya, more commonly known as RAF Habbaniya (Arabic: قاعدة الحبانية الجوية), (originally RAF Dhibban), was a Royal Air Force station...
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    was created to enter Iraq from the west and relieve RAF Habbaniya, Habbaniya Force. At Habbaniya, the besieging Iraqis demanded the cessation of all training...
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    2023-07-28. Kiwarkis, Gabriel. "The Battle for Habbaniya 1941". Assyrian RAF Levies. "The Battle for Habbaniya – The forgotten war RAF". History (Campaign...
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  • The Habbaniya, or Habbania, (Arabic: الحبانية) are a Sunni Muslim tribe of the nomadic Bedouin Baggara people in the plains of Sudan's Darfur, North Kurdufan...
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  • Habbaniyah (redirect from Habbaniya, Iraq)
    Al Habbaniyah or Habbaniya (Arabic: ٱلْحَبَّانِيَّة, al-Ḥabbānīyah) is a city 85 km (53 mi) west of Baghdad in Al-Anbar Province, in central Iraq. A military...
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    Lake Habbaniyah (Arabic: بحيرة الحبانية Buḥayrat al-Ḥabbāniya) is a lake located halfway between Ramadi and Fallujah near Al-Taqaddum (TQ) Air Base in...
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  • Al-Habbaniya Sport Club (Arabic: نادي الحبانية الرياضي), is an Iraqi football team based in Al-Habbaniya, Al-Anbar, that plays in Iraqi Second Division...
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    thereafter grew and survived until it was disbanded when control of RAF Habbaniya and RAF Shaibah was handed to Iraq in 1957. The Iraq Levies traced their...
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    escape route that led via the US embassy in Baghdad to the RAF base at Habbaniya, before reaching the safety of the British warship HMS Cockchafer and...
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    around Basra and at Habbaniya north east of Baghdad. Basra was too well defended for the Iraqis to consider taking. However, Habbaniya was a poorly defended...
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    Himayd Batahin Bedaria Beni Halba Dubasiyin Fadnia Fezara Gawamaa Gimma Habbaniya Hasania Hawazma Humr Husseinat Ja'alin Kababish Kawahla Maalia Mahamid...
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    (1924), p. 128. Lyman, Robert (2006). Iraq 1941: The Battles for Basra, Habbaniya, Fallujah and Baghdad. Campaign. Oxford: Osprey. p. 26. ISBN 1-84176-991-6...
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    Beni Halba, Habbaniya, Salamat, Messiria, Tarjam, and Beni Hussein in Darfur, and the Messiria Zurug, Messiria Humr, Hawazma, Habbaniya and Awlad Himayd...
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  • landed at Basra (Operation Sabine). On 30 April, British forces at RAF Habbaniya were besieged by a numerically inferior Iraqi force. On 2 May, the British...
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    An RAF officer investigates wrecked Iraqi artillery near Habbaniya....
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    Research report Lyman, Robert (2006). Iraq 1941: The Battles for Basra, Habbaniya, Fallujah and Baghdad. Campaign. Oxford: Osprey. ISBN 1-84176-991-6. Polk...
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    victories against government forces and gained support from the Berti, Habbaniya and Beni Halba tribes. In 1882, the governor of Darfur, Slatin Pasha assembled...
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    Himayd Batahin Bedaria Beni Halba Dubasiyin Fadnia Fezara Gawamaa Gimma Habbaniya Hasania Hawazma Humr Husseinat Ja'alin Kababish Kawahla Maalia Mahamid...
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    Jordi Tejel. Syria's Kurds: history, politics and society. 2009. p.156. "Habbaniya War Cemetery". Commonwealth War Graves Commission. Retrieved 12 August...
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    his flights. He continued to advanced flying training in Iraq, at RAF Habbaniya, 50 miles (80 km) west of Baghdad. Following six months' training on Hawker...
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    Rashid Ali al-Gaylani, initiated a siege of the British base at RAF Habbaniya near Ramadi. This prompted a British counter-attack to break the siege...
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  • squadron moved between Habbaniya, Abu Sueir, May 1952 back to Nicosia, 11 July 1952 back to Habbaniya, finally leaving Habbaniya on 12 December 1955 (Jefford...
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  • treaty provided that the British could maintain air bases near Basra and Habbaniya "in times of peace" and have the right of transit for military forces...
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  • force. RAF Habbaniya was a Royal Air Force station at Habbaniya in the Kingdom of Iraq. From 30 April, the small British garrison at Habbaniya had been...
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    major tribes: Hawazma, Messiria Humr Messiria Zurug, Rizeigat, Ta’isha, Habbaniya, Beni Halba, Awlad Himayd, and Beni Selam. All Baggara have similar physical...
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  • Force (RAF) based in Iraq and which played a role in the defence of RAF Habbaniya during World War II. On 19 December 1921, "No. 1 Armoured Car Company...
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    'Abd al-Ilah, learnt of a plot to arrest him and fled Baghdad for RAF Habbaniya, from whence he was flown to Basra and given refuge on the Insect-class...
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