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Bookmark or Share- Kurdistan | History, Religion, Map, & Facts | BritannicaKurdistan, broadly defined geographic region traditionally inhabited mainly by Kurds. It consists of an extensive plateau and mountain area, spread over large parts of what are now eastern Turkey, northern Iraq, and western Iran and smaller parts of northern Syria and Armenia.
- Iraqi Kurdistan - WikipediaDuring the 2014 Northern Iraq offensive, Iraqi Kurdistan seized the city of Kirkuk and the surrounding area, as well as most of the disputed territories in Northern Iraq. On 1 July 2014, Masoud Barzani announced that "Iraq's Kurds will hold an independence referendum within months."
- Kurdistan Region - WikipediaThe Kurdistan region of Iraq is an autonomous region in northern Iraq. It borders Iran in the east, Turkey in the north, and Syria in the west. The region encompasses most of Iraqi Kurdistan, which is the southern part of the greater geographical region of Kurdistan. The region lies between latitudes 34° and 38°N, and longitudes 41° and 47 ...
- Iraq - 2022 World Factbook Archiveas of 2022, Iraqi security forces (ISF) continued to conduct counterinsurgency and counterterrorism operations against the Islamic State of Iraq and ash-Sham (ISIS) terrorist group, particularly in northern and western Iraq; Kurdish Security Forces (KSF, aka Peshmerga) also conducted operations against ISIS the KSF were formally recognized as a ...
- Iraq country profile - BBC News911-609BC - Neo-Assyrian Empire based in northern Iraq dominates the Near East, most notably under Ashurnasirpal II and Shalmaneser III. 620-539BC -Neo-Babylonian Empire dominates the Levant ...
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