Sayed Gharib

Sayyid Gharib السيد غريب
Village
Sayyid Gharib Location in Iraq
Coordinates: 33°55′N 44°10′E
Country	Iraq
Governorate	Saladin
District	Dujail
In October 2009 four gunmen kidnapped five farmers, in June 2010 two Sahwa militia men were killed, and in 2015 the village was liberated from ISIS.

Sayed Gharib (Arabic: السيد غريب), also transliterated as Sayyid Gharib or Syed Ghraib, is a village in the Dujail district of Saladin Governorate, Iraq. The village lies beside Highway 1 a few kilometres south of the city of Balad and 120 kilometres southeast of the provincial capital, Tikrit. The national capital, Baghdad, is another 80 kilometres south.

Insurgency

In October 2009, four gunmen kidnapped five farmers in the area.

In June 2010, two Sahwa militia members were killed, and another was seriously injured by an explosive device at a checkpoint in the area.

In July 2013, a policeman was reportedly shot by unidentified gunmen at a checkpoint.

On January 3, 2015, IraqiNews, citing an anonymous security source, reported that Iraqi security forces had liberated the village from Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL/ISIS) militants. The source stated that, "The security forces have managed to liberate the entire area of Sayyid Gharib, located 120 km south of Tikrit in the district of al-Dujail," adding that, "The clashes between the security forces and ISIS militants resulted in the deaths of seven ISIS snipers who were positioned inside abandoned houses in the area."