Tal Afar [1] (Arabic: تَلْعَفَر, romanized: Talʿafar, IPA: [talˈʕafar] Turkish: Telafer) is a city in the Nineveh Governorate of northwestern Iraq, located 63 km (39 mi) west of Mosul, [2] 52 km (32 mi) east of Sinjar [2] and 200 km (120 mi) northwest of Kirkuk.

The Battle of Tal Afar also known as Operation Restoring Rights [5] was a military offensive conducted by the United States Army and supported by Iraqi forces, to eliminate Al Qaeda in Iraq and other insurgents in the city of Tal Afar, Iraq in response to the increase of insurgent attacks against U.S. and Iraqi positions in the area and to end ...

Apr 3, 2006 · Tal Afar is an ancient city of a quarter-million inhabitants, situated on a smuggling route in the northwestern desert of Iraq, near the Syrian border. In January, when I visited, the...

Aug 25, 2017 · Although much smaller in size, Tal Afar has been a so-called Islamic State (IS) stronghold that the jihadist group has used as a strategic "base" since 2014. And Tal Afar has had ruthless...

The Battle of Tal Afar was an offensive announced on 20 August 2017 by Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi in order to liberate the Tal Afar region from the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL).

Nov 1, 2016 · In essence, Tal Afar was the guarantor of ISIS’s strategic depth, giving it opportunities to move forces and material as needed. But Tal Afar would also prove important because of its jihadist and insurgent background.

Nov 5, 2020 · Tal Afar, a city that normally is home to perhaps 250,000 people, sits amid dry plains and rocky hills between Mosul and the Syrian border. ISIS turned it into a stronghold by exploiting decades of local, communal conflicts to recruit people to extremism.

Aug 2, 2021 · Almost four years after the liberation of Nineveh’s Tal Afar district from ISIS control, feelings of marginalization, neglect and exclusion persist among communities in the region, epitomizing how such feelings have driven ethnic and sectarian tensions and conflict in …

Sep 1, 2017 · TAL AFAR, Iraq — An airstrike left a crater the size of a tennis court in one neighborhood. Artillery punched a gaping hole in the minaret of the city’s main mosque. Some buildings were...

Oct 19, 2016 · Tal Afar was a strategic insurgent-held city along the highway by which weapons and drugs entered Iraq from Syria. The green arrows represent the U.S. Army’s 3rd Armored Cavalry Division approaching to make its initial assault on the city.