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unusual facts about Northern Iraq



Ahmed Barzani

The first of the major Barzani revolts took place in 1931 after Barzani, one of the most prominent Kurdish leaders in Northern Iraq, and succeeded in defeating a number of other Kurdish tribes.

Andy Salmon

In his early service years, he was involved in various operations including tours in Belfast (1978), the Falklands (1982), Crossmaglen (1983), South Armagh (1990), Northern Iraq (1991) and Angola (1992).

Enzo Sereni

In 1942, Sereni became one of the first Jewish emissaries from Palestine to Iraq and visited Sandur, a Jewish village in northern Iraq and described it in details.

William Ishaya

William Ishaya, was born to Assyrian parents Ishaya Odisho and Ester Odisho (Daughter of the late Rev. Odisho Bet-Benyamin of St. Matthew Church in Sarsing, Northern Iraq).


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Aphrahat

He may have been a bishop, and later Syriac tradition places him at the head of Mar Matti monastery near Mosul, in what is now northern Iraq.

Ashkenazi Hebrew

These features are not found in the Hebrew pronunciation of today's Iraqi Jews, which as explained has been overlaid by Sephardi Hebrew, but are found in some of the Judeo-Aramaic languages of northern Iraq and in the Christian Aramaic of Syria.

Gaby Rado

It is believed that he fell from the roof of the Abu Sanaa hotel in Sulaymaniyah, northern Iraq, into the car park below where he was found in what appeared to be an accident unconnected with any military activity.

Hamdanid dynasty

His son Abdallah (904-929) was in turn appointed governor of Mosul in northern Iraq (906) and even governed Baghdad (914).

Jane Arraf

Returning through northern Iraq, she covered the war live as the front line shifted, including extensive coverage of Iraqi civilians and live coverage from Mosul before the arrival of US forces.

Kanan Makiya

In October 1992, he convened the Human Rights Committee of the Iraqi National Congress, a transitional parliament based in northern Iraq.

Khalil Rashow

He was born in the village of Mam Rasha in district of Sheikhan in Mosul province in northern Iraq.

Khamra Teeka

It also contains the track "Barwar", a song which tells the story of the bombing of Barwar, a northern Iraq region that was laid to waste during the Gulf War.

Mass graves in Iraq

The 1983 attack against Kurdish citizens belonging to the Barzani tribe, 8,000 of whom were rounded up by the regime in northern Iraq and executed in deserts at great distances from their homes.

Mosul Dam

In order to bolster Saddam Hussein's regime during the Iran-Iraq War and promote Saddam's Arabization efforts in Northern Iraq, the construction of the Mosul Dam was important.

Nineveh Province

After the US invasion in 2003, the military government of the province was led initially by (then Lieutenant General) David Petraeus as commander of the 101st Airborne Division and later by (then Brigadier General) Carter Ham as commander of the multi-national brigade for northern Iraq.

Otis G. Pike

This piece also notes that the report describes "details of a covert CIA operation in support of Kurdish rebels in northern Iraq, who were fighting for autonomy against the sinister, pro-Communist, Ba’ath regime in Baghdad" but that in their view there were distortions of "important details" and criticism of Henry Kissinger.

Saddam Hussein's alleged shredder

The first mention of the plastic shredder came at a March 12, 2003 meeting, when James Mahon addressed the British House of Commons after returning from research in northern Iraq.

Şemdinli

Interior minister, İdris Naim Şahin, explained that the forces were attempting to block the PKK's escape routes into northern Iraq, and that as many as 115 PKK fighters had been killed.

Shabak

Shabak people, a minority ethnoreligious group of northern Iraq

Shabak people

Shabak people are a people who live mainly in the villages of Ali Rash, Khazna, Yangidja, and Tallara in Sinjar district in the province of Ninawa in northern Iraq.

Soran clan

The Sorans (Kurdish: 'Hozi Soranakan') are a Kurdish clan whose traditional homeland is the central region of Soran in northern Iraq.

Syriac literature

The first such flourishing of Neo-Syriac was the seventeenth century literature of the School of Alqosh, in northern Iraq.

VFA-37

From October 1992 to April 1993, the Bulls deployed to the Mediterranean Sea and were key participants in Operation Provide Comfort in northern Iraq and Operation Provide Promise in the airspace near the former Yugoslavia.