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 ...

By 25 August, Iraqi forces in the Tal Afar area captured over 30 neighborhoods and killed more than 300 IS militants, while also breaching the IS defense lines in the center of Tal Afar. A statement from the Iraqi Joint Operations Command (JOC) claimed that elite Iraqi units seized the northern neighborhoods of Nida', Taliaa, Uruba, Nasr, and Saad.

Aug 26, 2017 · Iraqi forces have now seized control of most of the strategically significant city of Tal Afar from ISIS, the Iraqi Joint Military Command said Saturday.

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 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 …

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.

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 14, 2016 · Tal Afar has played a major role in the wars in Iraq since 2003. The city experienced cycles of sectarian violence between Sunni and Shia Turkmen well before the bombing of the Ali Askari Mosque in Samara in February 2006, which many analysts identify as the start of a sectarian civil war in Iraq.

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...