Proper noun
Anbar
A medieval town in Anbar Province, in modern-day central Iraq, now abandoned.
Are vital U. S. interests more imperiled by what happens in Iraq where were have 50,000 troops, or Afghanistan where we have 100,000, or South Korea where we have 28,000 - or by what is happening on our border with Mexico? ... What does it profit America if we save Anbar and lose Arizona? Pat Buchanan
But the fall of Ramadi has galvanized the Iraqi government. So, with the additional steps I ordered last month, we're speeding up training of ISIL forces, including volunteers from Sunni tribes in Anbar Province. Barack Obama
This is a ping-pong game with American lives. These young men and women that we put in Anbar province, in Iraq, in Baghdad, are not beans. They're real lives. And we better be damn sure we know what we're doing, all of us, before we put 22,000 more Americans into that grinder. Chuck Hagel
The Ain al-Asad air base in Iraq’s western Anbar province is a sprawling complex about 180 kilometres (110 miles) west of Baghdad and houses about 1,500 members of the U.S. military and the U.S.-led coalition fighting the Islamic State militant group. Source: Internet
It is now evident that the missile attacks from Iran on the two bases at Irbil and al-Asad in Anbar were signalled well ahead, so no one was seriously hurt, and none killed. Source: Internet
Ten struck the Ain al-Asad air base in Iraq’s western Anbar province. Source: Internet