Halabja, Iraq

Iraq

Halabja, Iraq connects to 7404 places across 15 topics through 65 Bunkabop connections, with military and government threads forming the bulk of its profile. British forces occupied Halabja after defeating a Kurdish rebellion at the Bazyan Pass, and in 1988 the Iraqi government's chemical attack on the town killed at least 5,000 Kurdish civilians. Its connections reach Iraq, Iran, and Turkey, and include Kurdish literary history through the 19th-century poet Mawlawi Tawagozi.