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Mahmoudiyah (also transliterated '''Al-Mahmudiyah, Al-Mahmoudi''', or [[Mahmudiya District|Al-Mahmudiya]], prefixed usually with '''Al-''') is a rural city south of [[Baghdad]]. Known as the “Gateway to Baghdad,” the city's proximity to Baghdad made it central to the counterinsurgency campaign.
[[Mahmudiya District|Al-Mahmudiya]] has approximately 350,000 inhabitants, all of him are [[Shia]] [[Arabs]], over 99.9% of [[Mahmudiya District|Al-Mahmudiya]] are shia, While the control of the year on all rural areas around the area of Mahmudiyah, such as the villages of Latifiyah and Yusufiyah while the Shiites remained in the centers of those cities They were controlled by Sunni Arab tribes which included : The Tamim, [[Dulaim]], [[Al Ubaid]],
and [[Al Jubour]] (These are all Shia and Sunni Arab Tribes)
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