Baquba, the largest city in Diyala province, is about 60 kilometers (37 miles) north of Baghdad.
Balad Ruz is about 30 miles (48 kilometers) east of the provincial capital of Baquba.
Hadida is in Diyala province, near the city of Baquba, once an insurgent stronghold.
The attack took place in al-Adhaim, 60 kilometers (37 miles) north of Baquba, a Diyali security official said.
My area is solidly Sunni Muslim, so there is not the sectarian division you get in Baghdad or Baquba.
The attack took place on a U.S. patrol base at an Iraqi school near the town of Baquba in Diyala province, northeast of Baghdad.
Baquba is north of Baghdad, in Diyala province, which borders Iran.
U.S. and Iraqi troops have been fighting insurgents in Operation Arrowhead Ripper in and around Baquba, the capital of Diyala -- the eastern province northeast of Baghdad.
The Interior Ministry official said the 10 trucks were carrying the barriers to schools that will be turned into polling stations in the Diyala provincial capital of Baquba.
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The military said the original Operation Lightning Hammer -- August 13 to September 1 -- ousted militants from the Diyala River valley, northeast of Baquba, the capital of Diyala province.
And Thursday evening, the leader of a Sons of Iraq group, also known as Awakening Councils, was killed along with two other members of the group in a bombing northeast of Baquba.
Asked about the two volatile regions of Baquba and Mosul, north of Baghdad, Odierno said he believes troops will withdraw from Baquba, but noted that Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki will have to make a decision about Mosul, where al Qaeda in Iraq militants have been active.
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