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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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  • The Halabja massacre (Kurdish: کیمیابارانی ھەڵەبجە Kêmyabarana Helebce) took place in Iraqi Kurdistan on 16 March 1988, when thousands of Kurds were killed...
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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 a federal region. Four governorates, Erbil, Sulaymaniyah, Halabja and Duhok, constitute...
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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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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  • 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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    rebels. The campaign resulted in 50,000–100,000 civilians killed. The Halabja massacre was the most notorious massacre during the campaign. Other ethnic...
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  • Osman Abdulaziz was born in 1922 in the village of Prisi Saroo close to Halabja to a religious Sunni Kurd family. His father, Abdulaziz, was the Imam of...
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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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  • 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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    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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  • and artist. In 1988 he took the first pictures of the aftermath of the Halabja chemical attack during the Iran–Iraq War. Golestan was the son of the Iranian...
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    governor in 2017 and belongs to the Gorran political party. Abubakir was born in Halabja. پارێزگای سلێمانی. Slemani Governate. Retrieved May 12, 2021. v t e...
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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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    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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    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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    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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    capital of the district. Halabja Governorate consists of the four districts of Biyare, Halabja, Sirwan and Xurmal. Halabja is the capital of the governorate...
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    Retrieved 15 April 2015. "Syria gas attack: death toll at 1,400 worst since Halabja". The Week. 22 August 2013. Archived from the original on 25 August 2013...
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  • Ali Osman Ali (category Governors of Halabja Governorate)
    was governor of Halabja Province in Iraq. Graduated from College of Law, University of Sulaimania, he was appointed governor of Halabja on 26 August 2016...
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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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    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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  • Santa Cruz in 1988. A Poisonous Affair: America, Iraq, and the Gassing of Halabja Cambridge University Press (2007) ISBN 978-0521876865 Behind the Intifada:...
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