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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, before 2007 most of whom are [[ShiaSunni]] [[Arabs]], over 75% of [[Mahmudiya District|Al-Mahmudiya]] are ShiaSunni,<ref>[http://iraqslogger.powweb.com/index.php/post/3051/Sunni_and_Shia_Tribes_Clash_in_Babel Sunni and Shia Tribes Clash in Babel]</ref> butas inreported 2014by overthe 88%UNHCR ofIDPs Al-Mahmudiyalist. areWhile shiathe Because to Sunni displacementcontrol of Shi'itesall from Sunnirural areas to Mahmudiyah. The population ofaround the cityarea of Mahmudiyah lessis thanby 140Sunnis,000 people,such but afteras the displacementtowns of theLatifiyah Shiitesand ofYusufiyah while the cityShiites ofremained Mahmudiyahin increasedthe its population and became more than 350,000 peoplecentre of Mahmudiya city.
 
==War crime [[Mahmudiyah rape and killings|incident]]==
Because to Sunni displacement of Shi'ites from Sunni areas to Mahmudiyah
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''For full article see [[Mahmudiyah killings]]''
 
During the [[Iraq War]], a [[Mahmudiyah incident|war crime]] took place in Mahmudiyah on March 12, 2006 in which five soldiers of the [[502d Infantry Regiment]], raped a 14-year-old Iraqi girl, [[Abeer Qassim Hamza al-Janabi]] (an Iraqi Sunni Arab girl) and then murdered her, after killing her father Qassim Hamza Raheem, her mother Fakhriya Taha Muhasen and her six-year-old sister Hadeel Qassim Hamza al-Janabi. The soldiers then burned the bodies to conceal evidence of the crime. Four of the soldiers were convicted of rape and murder, and the fifth was convicted of lesser crimes.
, as reported by the UNHCR IDPs list, While the control of all rural areas around the area of Mahmudiyah is by Sunnis, such as the towns of Latifiyah and Yusufiyah while the Shiites remained in the centre of Mahmudiya city These areas are traditional lands controlled by Sunni Arab tribes which include : The Tamim, [[Dulaim]], [[Al Ubaid]], qarghali
 
and [[Al Jubour]] (Sunni Arab Tribes)
 
==Civil infrastructure==
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