Al Qaim (arab. لقائم‎) is a city in Iraq, located almost 400 km northwest of Baghdad near the Syrian border along the Euphrates River, in the province of Anbar. It has about 250,000 inhabitants and is the administrative center of the Al Qaim district.
Al Qaim includes the regions of Husaybah, Ramanan, Karbilah and New Ubaydi.

The Al Qaim region has some of the richest soils in the Middle East. In addition, the river water in this area has less salt and, importantly, minerals, so that it has significantly less water resources for crop production in the area than further downstream, where artificial reduction of salinity should be carried out.

Iraq War
As of 2006, Al-Kaim, like many other cities in Anbar province, was still in a state of insurgency. Kaim’s main economic activity is smuggling. Damage from previous fighting caused the local economy to collapse.