Profiles for 59 cities, towns and other populated places in Yuba County California. Incorporated Places have an asterisk (*).
Balad Air Base is an Iraqi Air Force base located near Balad in the Sunni Triangle 40 miles (64 km) north of Baghdad, Iraq.
Continue reading the main story. But this corner of Diyala Province, north of Baghdad and near the Iranian border, is one of those pockets across northern and eastern Iraq where the war is still being fought much as it was two years ago, when the âsurgeâ of American troops began. Here violence remains high, the Sunni insurgency never defeated.