Al-Qa'im (Arabic: القائم, Kurdish: قائیم ) is an Iraqi border town located nearly 400 km (248 mi) northwest of Baghdad near the Syrian border and situated
northwest of the Ar-Rutba District of the Al Anbar province of Iraq, on the road between the towns of Ar-Rutbah and Al-Qa'im. It has a population of around 5,000
ez-Zor and Eastern Syria campaign on the opposite side of the Al-Qa'im border crossing. Al-Qa'im was known as a hotbed of jihadist insurgency, after the 2003