At the conclusion of the Iran-Iraq war (1980-1988), the Kurdish city of Halabja was chemically bombarded by the Iraqi army. It left thousands of children, women and men suffocated to death. After 34 ...
HALABJA, Iraq—The flowers that dot the mountains of Kurdistan in early summer make Fakhradin Haji Salim think of his three dead children. “We used to take picnics there every summer,” he reminisces.
Error occured during this request! Please try again later. ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - The General Secretariat of the Iraqi Council of Ministers on Tuesday sent the ...
Halabja is a name etched in the history of chemical warfare. There are few documented instances of deliberate chemical weapons attacks against civilian communities; the one that Saddam Hussein’s ...
The Iraqi parliament voted on Monday in favor of a draft law to recognize the province of Halabja, raising the total number of provinces in the country to 19. In a statement, the assembly said the ...
Error occured during this request! Please try again later. ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - The Iraqi Council of Ministers on Monday officially approved Halabja as the ...
HALABJA, Iraq — At the rim of the cotton fields below the foothills, the melting morning frost makes mud of the roads. Men with prayer beads in their hands and Kalashnikovs slung over their shoulders ...
Nearly 25 years ago, Iraqi forces killed thousands of their own civilians using chemical weapons on the Kurdish town of Halabja. Now steps are about to be taken to discover which country - and ...
After the Halabja gassing President Bush I and Sen. Bob Dole fought sanctions against Iraq even though the gassing killed thousands and was reportedly carried out in part by U.S.-made helicopters.
Halabja Massacre comes to mind with the words of a child who fell on the ground due to a chemical gas on March 16, 1988: "Mom, there is a smell of apple". Whatever I write will not be enough to ...
In Halabja in Northern Iraq, Saddam Hussein’s chemical weapons attack there killed about 5,000 people in March 1988. A trial is underway in Iraq related to the attack. More than 4,800 survivors are ...
In March 1988, those who fled to Turkey after the Halabja massacre were first settled in tents along the banks of the Tigris River. From this reality, the novel stretches from Halabja to Diyarbakır, ...
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