Al Anbar Governorate

Al Anbar Governorate (Arabic: محافظة الأنبار; muḥāfaẓat al-’Anbār), or Anbar Province, is the largest governorate in Iraq by area. Encompassing much of the country's western territory, it shares borders with Syria, Jordan, and Saudi Arabia. The population is mostly SunniArabs. The provincial capital is Ramadi; other important cities include Fallujah, Al-Qa'im, Rawah and Haditha.

The governorate was known as Ramadi up to 1976 when it was renamed as Al Anbar governorate, and it was known as Dulaim before 1962. A large majority of the inhabitants of the province are Arab Sunni Muslims and most belong to the Dulaim tribe.

Al-Anbar Governorate, holding many Sunni previous supporters of Saddam Hussein, was a major center of the primarily Sunni, Islamist and Ba'athist-affiliatedIraqi insurgency, being the place of the battles in Fallujah and Ramadi.

In early 2014, the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, with the assistance of some local Sunni militias, launched a successful campaign to seize control of the province from the Iraqi government. Numerous offensive actions were undertaken by the Iraqi government, with the assistance of local Sunni tribes to remove ISIL's occupation of the province, especially in the Anbar campaign (2015–16), the Western Anbar offensive (September 2017) and the 2017 Western Iraq campaign. The area was effectively recaptured by the end of 2017 and has been at peace since then.