Balad (Arabic: بلد), also transliterated Beled or Belad, is a city in Saladin Governorate, Iraq, 80 kilometres (50 mi) north of the national capital, Baghdad. It is the capital of Balad District. Located between the towns of Al Dhuluiya, Yathrib and Ishaqi, Balad’s inhabitants belong to farmers work mainly in grape farms, fig trees, and citrus growers.
In the later months of 2014 the city was besieged by Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant forces, which were easily repelled by the Shia citizens of the city and the Iraqi government security forces
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