Kalakh

American  

[kah-lahkh] / ˈkɑ lɑx /

noun

1. an ancient Assyrian city on the Tigris River, founded 1274 b.c. and destroyed by the Medes 612 b.c.: its ruins are at Nimrud near Mosul in northern Iraq.

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Example Sentences

The second explosion, near the border town of Tel Kalakh east of Homs, caused a fire which could be seen across the frontier in Lebanon, Lebanese media reported.

From Reuters

The army's progress in Khalidiya comes a month after it launched an offensive in Homs city, building on its capture of the border towns of Qusair and Tel Kalakh, which were both used to bring rebel arms and fighters into Syria from Lebanon.

From Reuters

Last week the rebels lost another border town, Tel Kalakh.

From Reuters

Three weeks ago Hezbollah spearheaded the recapture of the border town of Qusair, a former rebel bridgehead for guns and fighters smuggled into Syria, and last week secured another border town, Tel Kalakh.

From Reuters

In Tripoli this week, the army has struggled to keep the warring groups apart.  Intermittent clashes have rocked the city for four days; triggered when 21 Lebanese Salafists from the militant Islamist group Fatah al-Islam—a group linked with Al Qaeda—were killed in an ambush by Syrian soldiers in the Syrian town of Tal Kalakh near Homs.

From Newsweek