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There were serious attempts by some political blocs to delay or derail the vote by tying it to the provincialization of Tal ...

Al-Monitor is an award-winning media outlet covering the Middle East, valued for its independence, diversity and analysis. It is read widely by US, international and Middle East decision makers at the ...

President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s spokesman Ibrahim Kalin called on Turkey’s Nato ally the United States to force the Iraqi army to withdraw troops from the outskirts of Tal Afar, west of Mosul. The US ...

In 2005, Colonel Herbert McMaster prioritized victory above promotion. Attempting to secure Tal Afar, a city in northern Iraq, McMaster faced a big problem: He was witnessing an insurgency that ...

Badaracco, Joseph, Richard Burgess Jr., Robert Carpio III, and William Wheeler. "Joe Gifford in Tal Afar, Iraq (A)." Harvard Business School Case 311-085, January 2011. (Revised June 2012.) ...

The leaflets were dropped near the town of Tall Afar and Saddam Lake, according to a statement from the Germany-based US European Command. "Think about your family. Do what you must to survive ...