Camp Ashraf

Camp Ashraf or Ashraf City was a camp in Iraq's Diyala province, having the character of a small city with all basic infrastructure, and headquarters of the exiled People's Mujahedin of Iran (PMOI/MEK). The population used to be around 3,400 in 2012 but nearly all have been more or less forcibly relocated under pressure by the premier minister Nouri al-Maliki's office of the Government of Iraq to Camp Liberty near Baghdad International Airport.

Camp Ashraf (aka US Forward Operating Base Grizzly) is situated 27.6 km northeast of the Iraqi town of Khalis, about 80 kilometers west of the Iran border and 40 kilometers north of Baghdad. On January 1, 2009, the US Government formally transferred control over to the Iraqi government. Over the past 10 years, Camp Ashraf has been attacked several times, the worst being on April 8, 2011 when Iraqi security forces stormed the camp and killed as many as 36 and wounding 320 residents, and on September 1, 2013, leaving a death toll of 52 victims.

The city of Ashraf was named in commemoration of Ashraf Rajavi, a famous political prisoner at the time of the Shah, senior member of the PMOI and wife of Massoud Rajavi. She was murdered in 1982 by the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps after the Iranian Revolution.

The PMOI established base at Ashraf in 1986. The refugees began on a barred land with no facilities, paved road or running water. The members of PMOI built it into a modern city with a complex of roads and buildings with many educational, social, medical and sports facilities, manufacturing and agricultural works, and even having a university. According to the U.S. State Department, the MEK was then welcomed into Iraq, where it supported Saddam Hussein's war against Iran (1980–88).

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