Halabja

British

/ həˈlæbdʒə /

noun

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

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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 • Dec. 24, 2021

He won the Robert Capa Gold Medal covering the 1979 Revolution for TIME, and photographed Saddam Hussein’s gas attack on Halabja.

From Time • Aug. 30, 2016

"I was born on 16 March," Shalah tells me, "the day Halabja was attacked. Not the same year but on the same date."

From BBC • Aug. 15, 2014

The "factory" was located in an area near Halabja occupied by a radical Kurdish Islamist group, Ansar al-Islam.

From The Guardian • Jul. 16, 2014

One of Saddam's lawyers claims that Abdel-Rahman, a Kurd from Halabja, has a "personal feud" with Saddam and isn't impartial.

From Time Magazine Archive

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