an-Nu'maniyah

An Numaniyah is a city on the Tigris river in Iraq, positioned more or less a hundred and forty kilometres southeast of Baghdad within the Wasit Province. It is the website of one of four country wide schooling facilities for the Iraqi Army. It is also the site of a base that changed into built via the Hussein regime and built by using Yugoslavian contractors Mostogradnja. Following the beginning of the Iraq War, it modified its cause September 1, 2004 to function as a education base for new recruits and function the house station for three battalions of the Iraqi Intervention Force the Iraqi navy's counterinsurgency wing.

An Numaniyah is called after al-Nu'guy III ibn al-Mundhir who dominated the area. The town hosts the tomb of Al-Mutanabbi. According to Globalsecurity.Org, "An Numaniyah Airbase is located in Southern Iraq approximately 294 kilometres South of Baghdad. The airfield is served by way of a unmarried 3,000-metre long runway. An Numaniyah Airbase occupies a 17 square kilometre site and is protected via a 18 kilometres security perimeter."