Bakaara

"Engage in classic urban warfare with a mixture of long sight lines down the city streets and close-quarter struggles for interior dominance. Move cautiously through open ground to avoid getting shot down by enemies firing from above."

- Call of Duty ELITE

Bakaara (referred to as Mogadishu in pre-release media) is a multiplayer map in Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3.

The opposing factions are the PMC and the African Militia.

Overview
Bakaara is one of the larger maps in Modern Warfare 3. It is set in an urban environment of the shore with many buildings that can be accessed. There are multiple streets and back ways that contain medium to long lines of sight. The streets have many crashed vehicles on them, offering for cover. The two main spawns are at the top of the hill (at a gentle slope) that this map is set on, and at the docks on the other side of the map. Near the middle of the map is a courtyard with the crashed Black Hawk, on the helicopter is a mounted minigun that can be used to hold down that area of the map, but is wide open to enemy fire. Tactically, the minigun is risky. It offers a nice field of fire on the main approach, but is easily cleared out by enemy forces.

Survival Mode
In Survival Mode, Bakaara is a Tier 4 map and has the difficulty of Insane. The player starts with the M16A4 with Red Dot Sight, the Five Seven, and 250 Armor. The hostiles include Bomb Squads, Chemical Agents, Claymore Experts, Choppers & Armored Juggernauts.

Trivia

 * Inside a crashed helicopter on the map, there is a mounted minigun which can be used by players, however it isn't present in Survival Mode.
 * The crashed Black Hawk in the map and the place in the map is a reference to the events of the Battle of Mogadishu.
 * Bakaara is an actual market in Mogadishu and the site of the first Black Hawk crash in the Battle of Mogadishu.
 * This map was originally called "Mogadishu" before the game was released.
 * There are three teddy bears on this map, two of them being ripped in half. One is on the floor in the small building next to the B flag in Domination, while the other two are located on shelves in a small blue building overlooking the middle road, near the Africa Militia spawn.