Arbil
Americannoun
noun
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“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.
From The Guardian
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.
From The Guardian
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.
From The New Yorker
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.
From US News
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."
From Reuters
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