Arbil

[ir-bil]

noun

1. Erbil.

Arbil

/ ˈɑːbɪl /

noun

1. a variant spelling of Erbil

Example Sentences

“I need to leave this place, I need a prosthetic leg,” the young Iraqi said, moments before the truck carrying the animals departed for Arbil.

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A group of veterinarians from the Four Paws International charity took the animals out of war-battered Mosul and after many administrative delays finally managed to fly them to Jordan from the Iraqi Kurdish capital of Arbil.

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The first Syrian-Americans, according to one popular narrative, were the Arbeelys: a family headed by the professor Joseph Arbeely, born Yusuf Hanna, in the town of Arbil, near Damascus.

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Iraqi Yazidi women protest outside the U.N. office in the Iraqi city of Arbil in support of women who were kidnapped by the Islamic State group.

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Moreover, Baghdad and Arbil, the capital of the autonomous Kurdish region, do not appear to have agreed on a plan for Mosul, and any significant participation by Kurdish or Shi'ite forces in a Mosul campaign, one U.S. official said, "would create a whole new set of problems that the Abadi government is incapable of managing, or even mitigating."

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