Word: halabiya
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Dates: during 1996-1996
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...During the bloody 8-year conflict, Iraq supported the Iranian Kurds opposed to Ayatollah Khomeini and Iran, in turn, supported the Iraqi Kurds opposed to Saddam Hussein. Throughout, Saddam's regime waged a merciless war on Kurds, including the notorious chemical weapons attack on the northern Iraqi city of Halabiya in 1988. The Kurds united in rebellion against the Iraqi regime in 1991, shortly after the end of the Gulf War, when the Western powers established an enclave where 4 million Kurds would be protected from Saddam. But even as the allied forces protected the Kurdish enclave in northern Iraq...
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