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    The Sinjar District or the Shingal District (Arabic: قضاء سنجار, Kurdish: قەزای شنگال ,Qeza Şingal) is a district of the Nineveh Governorate. The district...
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    Sinjar (Arabic: سنجار, romanized: Sinjār; Kurdish: شنگال, romanized: Şingal, Syriac: ܫܝܓܪ, romanized: Shingar) is a town in the Sinjar District of the...
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    Yazidi men, women and children. It took place in August 2014 in Sinjar city and Sinjar District in Iraq's Nineveh Governorate and was perpetrated by the Islamic...
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  • well as maintain law and order in the Sinjar District where they are located. It has a training post in Sinjar, where the policemen are trained by senior...
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  • massacre of 5,000 Yazidi men in the Sinjar District in August 2014 December 2014 Sinjar offensive November 2015 Sinjar offensive This article includes a...
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  • (Kurdish: کۆچۆ, romanized: Koço; Arabic: كوجو) is a village in Sinjar District, south of the Sinjar Mountains in the Nineveh Governorate of Iraq. It is considered...
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    mainly in the districts of Shekhan, Simele, Zakho and Tel Kaif, in Bashiqa and Bahzani, and the areas around Sinjar mountains in Sinjar district. According...
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    The Sinjar Mountains (Kurdish: چیایێ شنگالێ, romanized: Çiyayê Şingalê, Arabic: جَبَل سِنْجَار, romanized: Jabal Sinjār, Syriac: ܛܘܪܐ ܕܫܝܓܪ, romanized: Ṭura...
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    is a village located in the Sinjar District of the Ninawa Governorate in Iraq. The village is located south of the Sinjar Mount, in the disputed territories...
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    Hatra District (Hatra) Mosul District (Mosul) Shekhan District (Ain Sifni) Sinjar District (Sinjar) Tel Afar District (Tal Afar) Tel Keppe District (Tel...
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  • The Sinjar clashes of 2022 were a conflict that began on May 1, when the Iraqi military, with support from Turkey and the Kurdistan Democratic Party, launched...
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  • 16 and 17, 2021 Turkish airstrikes on Sinjar were several airstrikes on Sinjar District which targeted the Sinjar Resistance Units (YBŞ) fighters including...
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    Office on Drugs and Crime. Murad was born in the village of Kocho in Sinjar District, Iraq, populated mostly by Yazidi people. Her family, of the Yazidi...
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    The two biggest communities are in the Shekhan District, northeast of Mosul and in the Sinjar District, at the Syrian border 80 kilometres (50 mi) west...
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  • is a village located in the Sinjar District of the Ninawa Governorate in Iraq. The village is located north of the Sinjar Mount. It belongs to the disputed...
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  • northern Iraq. The operation took place in the Qandil Mountains, the Sinjar District, and Makhmur, against Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) targets, as part...
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    Conscription in Postcolonial Iraq: The Case of the Yazidi Kurds of Jabal Sinjar" (PDF). International Journal of Middle East Studies. 29 (4): 559–580. doi:10...
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    Serbia). August 3 – Sinjar massacre, beginning of ISIS attacks resulting in the massacre of over 4,000 Yazidis in Iraq's Sinjar District. August 7 – Khmer...
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  • The Sinjar clashes (2019) refer to a conflict that took place between the Iraqi Army and Kurdistan Worker's Party-affiliated forces in the Sinjar from...
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    village located in the Sinjar District of the Ninawa Governorate in northern Iraq. The village is located north of the Sinjar Mount. It belongs to the...
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    Simele District (Kurdish: قەزای سێمێل, romanized: Qezaya Sêmêl, Arabic: قضاء سميل, romanized: qaḍāʾ Sumail) is a district of Dohuk Governorate in Kurdistan...
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    romanized: Sinunê) is a town located in the Sinjar District of the Ninawa Governorate in Iraq. The town is located north of the Sinjar Mount. It belongs to the disputed...
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    and board member of the Kurdistan Communities Union İsmail Özden in Sinjar District, northwestern Iraq. On 16 May 2021, one Bayraktar TB2 crashed in Zebari...
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  • Qiniyeh (Kurdish: Qînîçê) is a village in the Sinjar District, south of the Sinjar Mountains in the Nineveh Governorate in Iraq. It is populated by Yazidis...
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  • As-Samawah District (also Al-Samawa) (Arabic: قضاء السماوة) is a district of the Al Muthanna Governorate, Iraq. It has an area of 475.8 square kilometres...
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    Shekhan District (Ain Sifni) Sinjar District (Sinjar) Tel Afar District (Tal Afar) Tel Kaif District (Tel Keppe) al-Qādisiyyah Governorate Afak District (Afak)...
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    The November Sinjar offensive was a combination of operations of Kurdish Peshmerga, PKK, and Yezidi Kurd militias in November 2015, to recapture the city...
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    as Sinjar town and Tel Afar District of mixed Arab and Yazidi population.[citation needed] Sinjar District and northern parts of Tel Afar District and...
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    and towns of Quiniyeh (70–90 Yazidis killed), Hardan (60 Yazidis killed), Sinjar (500–2,000 Yazidis killed), Ramadi Jabal (60–70 Yazidis killed), Dhola (50...
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    of the region within a few days. Su, Alice (2024-05-22). "No Escape From Sinjar Mountain". Foreign Policy. Retrieved 2024-04-24. Kazim, Hasnain (2014-10-20)...
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