• The Halabja massacre (Kurdish: کیمیابارانی ھەڵەبجە Kêmyabarana Helebce), also known as the Halabja chemical attack, was a massacre of Kurdish people that...
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    Halabja (Kurdish: هەڵەبجە, romanized: Helebce, Arabic: حلبجة) is a city in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq and the capital of Halabja Governorate, located...
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    Halabja Governorate (Kurdish: پارێزگای ھەڵەبجە, romanized: Parêzgay Helebceyê, Arabic: محافظة حلبجة, romanized: Muḥāfaẓat Ḥalabja) is a governorate in...
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    governorate (Halabja). Per the Iraqi constitution, governorates can form an autonomous region. Four governorates, Erbil, Sulaymaniyah, Halabja and Duhok...
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  • Halabja District may refer to: Halabja, a district of the Halabja Governorate Halabja District, Sulaymaniyah Governorate, a former district Halabja Governorate...
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    Iranian troops and other Kurdish factions, captured Halabja. This led to the poison gas attack on Halabja on 16 March 1988, during which several thousand...
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    Kurdistan Region of Iraq. Its largest city is Sulaymaniyah. Halabja Governorate was formerly the Halabja District of Sulaymaniyah, until it became a separate...
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    Governorate, the Sulaymaniyah Governorate, the Duhok Governorate, and Halabja Governorate. The KRI is bordered by Iran to the east, by Turkey to the...
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    Halabja Stadium (Kurdish: یاریگای ھەڵەبجە, Arabic: ملعب حلبجة) is a multi-purpose stadium in Halabja, Northern Iraq. It is currently used mostly for football...
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    disaster for the Kurds. Saddam responded with a chemical gas attack on Halabja. The Halabja poison gas attack occurred in the period 15–19 March 1988 during...
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    death by hanging. Abd al-Rahman is an ethnic Kurd from Halabja, the site of the 1988 Halabja poison gas attack. He replaced Rizgar Mohammed Amin as chief...
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    16 March 1988, the Kurdish town of Halabja was attacked with a mix of mustard gas and nerve agents during the Halabja massacre, killing between 3,200 and...
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  • Movement. He was born on December 28, 1929, in the village of Prisi Saroo in Halabja province to a religious family. At the age of seven, he studied the Qur'an...
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  • Osman Abdulaziz was born in 1922 in the village of Prisi Saroo close to Halabja to a religious family. His father, Abdulaziz, was the Imam of the mosque...
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  • of Halabja, orUoH (زانكۆى هه‌ڵه‌بجه‌ in Kurdish) is one of the Iraqi Kurdistan public universities founded in 2011 in the city of Halabja, Halabja Governorate...
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    further divided into sub-districts (or nawāḥī). A nineteenth governorate, Halabja Governorate, is unrecognised by the Iraqi government. A clickable map of...
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    of 7.3 occurred on the Iran–Iraq border, with the Iraqi Kurdish city of Halabja, and the Kurdish dominated places of Ezgeleh, Salas-e Babajani County,...
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    District (Qaradagh) Halabja Governorate is part of Iraqi Kurdistan and still officially a part of Sulaymaniyah Governorate. Halabja Sirwan Khurmal District...
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  • is the Mayor of Halabja in Iraqi Kurdistan. She is the second woman to be appointed to the most prominent political office in Halabja. Nasih was elected...
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    Thousands die in Halabja gas attack". BBC News. Archived from the original on 2018-02-10. Retrieved 2013-08-28. "Iraq attack to Halabja". taghribnews.com...
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    Kurdish minority, which took place between 1986–1988 and included the Halabja chemical attack. The Al-Anfal campaign ended in 1988 with an agreement...
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    control of territory around Halabja, Tawella and Panjwin to the party after heavy fighting, and the party controlled Halabja from 1998 to 2000. In 1998...
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    Iraq. Shortly before the Halabja massacre, Saddam Hussein cracked down on Kurdish Islamic scholars, which led them to flee Halabja and go to Iran, where...
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  • Jano Rosebiani. Diyari, a Kurdish-American returns to his hometown of Halabja, to build an orphanage five years after the chemical bombing. There, he...
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    Soberanía took place. March 1988: Halabja chemical attack; Over two days in March, the ethnic Kurdish city of Halabja in northern Iraq (population 70,000)...
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  • Halabja District was a district of the Sulaymaniyah Governorate, Kurdistan Region. In March 2014 the district was raised from district status to governorate...
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    بیارە) was a short-lived unrecognized Kurdish Islamic state located in the Halabja Governorate ruled by sharia law which declared independence from Iraq in...
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    District (Shaqlawa) Soran District (Soran) Halabja Governorate Byara District (Byara) Halabja District (Halabja) Khurmal District (Khurmal) Sirwan District...
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    Cities Tanker War Beit-ol-Moqaddas 2 Beit-ol-Moqaddas 7 Al-Anfal Campaign (Halabja) Zafar 7 Tawakalna ala Allah (2nd al-Faw) Shining Sun Forty Stars Eternal...
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    March 1988 in villages around the city of Marivan On 16 March 1988 in the Halabja, with the massacre of more than 5,000 civilians In May–June 1988 in villages...
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