Tal Afar (Arabic: تَلْعَفَر, romanized: Talʿafar, IPA: [talˈʕafar] Turkish: Telafer) is a city in the Nineveh Governorate of northwestern Iraq, located...
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The Battle of Tal Afar also known as Operation Restoring Rights was a military offensive conducted by the United States Army and supported by Iraqi forces...
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Tal Afar uprising or Kaçakaç Rebellion was a rebellion during the Anglo-Turkish War of 1918–1923, which resulted in a British victory. With the capture...
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of Tal Afar may refer to: Battle of Tal Afar (2005), also known as Operation Restoring Rights, by U.S. and Iraq against Al Qaeda Battle of Tal Afar (2017)...
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The Tal Afar Citadel (Turkish: Telafer Kalesi) is a citadel located in Tal Afar, a city in Nineveh Governorate in northwest Iraq. The citadel was built...
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Battle of Tal Afar was an offensive announced on 20 August 2017 by Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi in order to liberate the Tal Afar region from...
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French colony (now Djibouti) Tal Afar, in Iraq Tel Afar District, region in Iraq Afar (album), a synthpop album by Ice Choir Afar (magazine), a publication...
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distance of 25 km towards the strategically important Tal Afar military airbase, south of the city of Tal Afar. On 9 November, the ISOF captured the majority...
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been conquered by ISIL in August 2014, and expanded their offensive on to Tal Afar. In August 2014, the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant launched an offensive...
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37-45 Güztoklusu 2008, p. 55 ABOŞ, Kahtan Ahmet from Tal Afar, El Tavratul Tal Afar (Tal Afar revolution) Güztoklusu, 2008, p.69 Atatürk’ün Söylev ve...
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of the Iraqi Turkmen. Turkmeneli includes within its boundaries Kirkuk, Tal Afar, Erbil, Mandali, Mosul and Tuz Khurmatu. The Iraqi Army and Peshmerga have...
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In January 2005, two parents were shot dead in Tal Afar, Iraq, as they were driving from a hospital. They had been mistaken for suicide bombers. On Tuesday...
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The 2007 Tal Afar bombings took place on March 27, 2007, when two truck bombs targeted Shia areas of the Turkmen town of Tal Afar, Iraq, killing 152 and...
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The 9 July 2009 Tal Afar bombing was a double suicide bombing which occurred in Tal Afar, Iraq in July 2009. The bombing occurred when two men detonated...
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Fallujah II Mosul 2005 Lake Tharthar Abu Ghraib Al-Qa'im Hit convoy Haditha Tal Afar 2006 Baghdad II Ramadi II Diwaniya Al Rumaythah Amarah Turki 2007 Haifa...
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Fallujah II Mosul 2005 Lake Tharthar Abu Ghraib Al-Qa'im Hit convoy Haditha Tal Afar 2006 Baghdad II Ramadi II Diwaniya Al Rumaythah Amarah Turki 2007 Haifa...
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Cavalry Regiment and fought the Iraqi insurgency in South Baghdad and Tal Afar from 2005 to 2006 after which he became a top counterinsurgency advisor...
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town from three sides, while cutting off the main roads between it and Tal Afar as well as Sinjar. It also stated that an Iraqi Air Force helicopter was...
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included the present-day Dohuk Governorate. The second largest city is Tal Afar, which has an almost exclusively Turkmen population. An ethnically, religiously...
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Timeline of the Battle of Mosul (2016–17): Phase One (section November: Entering East Mosul, reaching Tal Afar)
important Tal Afar military air base, south of the city. CJTF–OIR also stated it had carried out an airstrike on an ISIL headquarters building near Tal Afar. ISIL...
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Tal Afar AB Tal Afar Air Base is a former Iraqi Air Force base near Tal Afar in the Nineveh Governorate of Iraq. Tal Afar Air Base was a primary air base...
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Fallujah II Mosul 2005 Lake Tharthar Abu Ghraib Al-Qa'im Hit convoy Haditha Tal Afar 2006 Baghdad II Ramadi II Diwaniya Al Rumaythah Amarah Turki 2007 Haifa...
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Turkmeneli to be disputed city of Kirkuk and its boundaries also include Tal Afar, Mosul (second largest city in Iraq), Erbil, Mandali, and Tuz Khurmatu...
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about 1,000 people died. September 1: Battle of Tal Afar: US troops launch an offensive in Tal Afar, a city that would become a "model" for the Americans...
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control of Mosul, the second most populous city in Iraq, the nearby town of Tal Afar and most of the surrounding Nineveh Governorate. ISIL also captured parts...
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al-Qurashi—state that he was born in al-Muhalabiyyah near Mosul, Iraq. Alternatively, Tal Afar has also been suggested as birthplace, including by a short biography published...
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Fallujah II Mosul 2005 Lake Tharthar Abu Ghraib Al-Qa'im Hit convoy Haditha Tal Afar 2006 Baghdad II Ramadi II Diwaniya Al Rumaythah Amarah Turki 2007 Haifa...
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the mid-1990s, al-Anbari returned to Tal Afar, where he taught in a school and became the imam of a mosque. Tal Afar is a city populated by Shiites and...
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Iraqi Revolt (section Tal Afar)
British had an Assistant Political Officer, Major J. E. Barlow, stationed in Tal Afar. 2,050 to 10,000 Iraqis and around 1,000 British and Indian soldiers died...
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primarily led by the Naqshbandi Army and former Ba'athists, captured Tal Afar and its nearby airbase The defenders, composed largely of Shia Turkmen...
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