Halabja

/ həˈlæbdʒə /

noun

1. a Kurdish town in NE Iraq; in March 1998 Iraqi forces used poison gas on the population, killing hundreds of civilians. Pop: estimates vary between 45 000 and 80 000

Example Sentences

After the 1988 Halabja chemical attack, Abid searched through his hometown to find the bodies of his family.

From Reuters

A few weeks before the 2003 war, I visited the village of Halabja in Northern Iraq, and heard locals describe the day in 1988 when Saddam's army had dropped chemical weapons on them.

From BBC

Thousands of Kurdish people were killed, many of them women and children, in a large-scale chemical attack on Halabja in March 1988 during the Iran-Iraq war.

From Reuters

That tension over water persists all the way beyond the mountains near Halabja, where the Sirwan forms the border between Iran and Iraq.

From Los Angeles Times

In 1988, during the closing days of the Iran-Iraq war, when Iraqi President Saddam Hussein bombed Halabja’s Kurds with chemical weapons, many residents fled to the river, running across a narrow footbridge, Abdul Qader said.

From Los Angeles Times