Abu Kamal (Arabic: أَبُو كَمَال, romanized: ʾAbū Kamāl) or Al-Bukamal (Arabic: ٱلْبُوكَمَال, romanized: al-Būkamāl) is a city on the Euphrates river in the Deir ez-Zor Governorate of eastern Syria near the border with Iraq. It is the administrative centre of the Abu Kamal District and the local subdistrict (Abu Kamal Subdistrict). Just to the south-east is the Al-Qa'im border crossing to the town of Husaybah in the Al-Qa'im District of Iraq's Al Anbar Governorate.
^Population of Abu Kamal 2004-09-22
^"General Census of Population and Housing 2004" (PDF) (in Arabic). Syrian Central Bureau of Statistics. Archived from the original (PDF) on 8 December 2015. Retrieved 15 October 2015. Also available in English: "2004 Census Data". UN OCHA. Retrieved 15 October 2015.
AbuKamal (Arabic: أَبُو كَمَال, romanized: ʾAbūKamāl) or Al-Bukamal (Arabic: ٱلْبُوكَمَال, romanized: al-Būkamāl) is a city on the Euphrates river in...
The 2017 AbuKamal offensive, codenamed Operation Fajr-3 (translated Operation Dawn 3), was a military offensive launched by the Syrian Arab Army and...
The 2008 AbuKamal raid was an attack carried out by helicopter-borne CIA paramilitary officers from Special Activities Division and United States Special...
The 2016 AbuKamal offensive, also known as Operation Day of Wrath, was launched on the town of AbuKamal on the Syrian–Iraqi border led by the US-backed...
On February 23, 1997, Ali Hassan AbuKamal, a 69-year-old Palestinian teacher, opened fire on the observation deck of the Empire State Building in New...
AbuKamal District (Arabic: منطقة البوكمال, romanized: manṭiqat Albūkamāl) is a district of the Deir ez-Zor Governorate in northeastern Syria. The administrative...
part of the Authenticity and Development Front and formerly based in AbuKamal. The NSA was formed on 20 May 2015, and its fighters were trained in Jordan...
Shaker Wahib al-Fahdawi al-Dulaimi (1986 – May 6, 2016), better known as Abu Waheeb ("Father of Waheeb"; Arabic: أبو وهيب), was a leader of the Islamic...
operators' HK416. In October 2008, Delta Force operators took part in the AbuKamal raid. Delta Force suffered an overall 20 percent casualty rate. By 2009...
fighter logistics network" bringing al-Qaeda operatives into Iraq (See 2008 AbuKamal raid). A U.S. source told CBS News that "the leader of the foreign fighters...
Delfin Lorenzana said that the Maute group had established links with the Abu Sayyaf and that there are "indications" that the group is aligning themselves...
widespread prisoner abuse at Abu Ghraib, which received international media attention in April 2004. First reports of the Abu Ghraib prisoner abuse, as well...
series of human rights violations and war crimes against detainees in the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq, including physical abuse, sexual humiliation, physical...
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