A Tourist's Guide to Erbil, Iraq-Kurdistan
I fly into Erbil, Kurdistan-Iraq. But this is nothing like Baghdad; it's peaceful and full of culture. I wander around a bazaar, see a bit of the citadel, and then do a rip around the city in a taxi.
Babil Province - Iraq
Babil province in Iraq is home to the ancient city of Babylon and it is also host to other famous, popular and ancient Iraqi cities like Sippar, Borsippa, Kish, Seleucia, Al-Hillah or Hilla, Kifil, Al-Hashmiya, Al-Qasim, Mahmudiyah, Al-Hamzah, Al-Madhatiyah, Iskandariya, Latifiya, Salman-Pak, Yusufiyah, Musayyib, Al-Mahawil and of course the gate of Ishtar at the ancient ruins of Babylon (Babil, after which the region is named) and few other PROUD Iraqi villages and cities ... Magnificent places you won't believe your eyes and you wouldn’t think 10,000+ ancient and wonderful places still exist in the cradle of civilization once known as Mesopotamia and best known today as Iraq
Diyala Province - Iraq
Diyala province in Iraq is home to the city of Baqubah and it is also host to other famous, popular and ancient Iraqi cities like Muqdadiyah, Khanaqin, Balad Ruz, Al Khalis, Buhriz, Mandali, Kifri, Hebheb, Khan Bani Saad, Jalula, Ashraf City, Dwelah, Kingirban, Qarah Tapah, Sadiya, Sodur, Qazaniya, Al-Muntheriya, Abu Saydah, Kan’aan, Al-Wajihiya, Al-Mansouryah, Eshnunna (Tell Asmar) and few other PROUD Iraqi villages and cities ... Magnificent places you won't believe your eyes and you wouldn’t think 10,000+ ancient and wonderful places still exist in the cradle of civilization once known as Mesopotamia and best known today as Iraq
Erbil Province - Iraq
Erbil or Arbil province in Iraqi Kurdistan is home to the ancient city of Arbil, the capital of Iraqi Kurdistan and it is one of the oldest continuously inhabited cities in the world. Erbil province is also host to other famous, popular and ancient Iraqi cities like Erbil, Arbela or Hewler, Shaqlawa, Soran (Diyana), Mamdi, Koi Sanjaq, Harir, Ain-Kawa, Rawanduz, Barzan, Salahudin, Sargawa, Choman and few other PROUD Iraqi Kurdish and Assyrian villages and cities ... Magnificent places you won't believe your eyes and you wouldn’t think 10,000+ ancient and wonderful places still exist in the cradle of civilization once known as Mesopotamia and best known today as Iraq
Erbil Kurdistan - IRAQ city view from bus
Erbil is 4th biggest city of Iraq and Kurdistan capital. I am surprised the city was developed. Check the handsome driver during the video.
A Night at an Iraqi Amusement Park
An evening visit to Dream City, the star attraction in Dohuk, located in Iraq's northern Kurdistan Region.
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Visit to Iraq
This is a 10 minute portion of a video I took when I visited Iraq in 2006 with Ron Sawl and Bryan Burry as the guest of the 101st Airborne in Tikrit, Iraq. We were involved with Brotherhood of the Badge, an organization that supplied surplus civilian police gear to Iraqi police officers. The area was still a very active combat area when we visited.
The first part of the video shows preparation for our combat patrol, a visit to one of Saddam's palaces as well as one he built for his mother after she died.
It then shows our visit to a police substation in Bayji, a place that had been repeatedly attacked.
Included in the video is something very historic. We were invited to attend the regional government meeting of all the democratically elected officials from the cities in the Salah ad Din Province. This meeting was the first of its kind EVER in the history of Iraq. We witnessed the birth of democracy in that country.
Also at the end of the video shows a graduation ceremony of police cadets at a training center located in Sulaymaniyah in the Kurdish region where we were the guests of honor. The joy of the cadets after graduating is the highlight of the whole video
In My Home Town Kurdistan
Me and my cousins At Kurdistan throwing eggs at houses 3 am :)!
☀️ 360° Halabja Monument & Peace Museum | Halabja, Iraqi Kurdistan
A 360° video of a visit to the Halabja Monument and Peace Museum, shortly after the anniversary of the Halabja Chemical Attacks and during the Kurdish Newroz national holiday in 2016. If you visit, make sure to speak to Umed Rachid - a survivor - who now works at the museum as a guide offering the most personal account of the events of March 16 1988.
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The Halabja chemical attack, also known as the Halabja Massacre or Bloody Friday, was a massacre against the Kurdish people that took place on March 16, 1988, during the closing days of the Iran–Iraq War in the Kurdish city of Halabja in Southern Kurdistan. The attack was part of the Al-Anfal Campaign in northern Iraq, as well as part of the Iraqi attempt to repel the Iranian Operation Zafar 7. It took place 48 hours after the fall of the town to Iranian army and Kurdish guerrillas. The attack killed between 3,200 and 5,000 people and injured 7,000 to 10,000 more, most of them civilians. Thousands more died of complications, diseases, and birth defects in the years after the attack. The incident, which has been officially defined by Supreme Iraqi Criminal Tribunal as a genocidal massacre against the Kurdish people in Iraq, was and still remains the largest chemical weapons attack directed against a civilian-populated area in history.
Komkujiya Helebceyê bûyerek e ku di 16'ê Adara 1988'an de çêbû dema balafirên ser yên artêsa Îraqê bombeyên kîmyawî barandine ser bajarê Helebceyê. Di nava çend saetan de li Helebce û derdora wê bi hezaran kurd mirin û bi 10 hezaran kurd jî seqet man. Di nava kurdan û rayagistî de bi navê enfal jî tê bi navkirin. Enfal navê komkujiyeke (tevkujiyeke) li Basûrê Kurdistanê ji aliyê sazûmaniya Baas ve hatiye pêk anîn e. Navê xwe ji ayeta Quranê ya Enfalê digire Raya gistî ya cîhanê, ji komkujiyê pistî çend rojan agahdar bû. Rojnemevan Remezan Ozturk pistî komkujiyê çû Helebceyê û wêneyên ku li Helebceyê kisandibûn, bi wesandina wan cîhan agahdar kir. Di wêneyekê de kesekî bi navê Elî Hawar zarokekî xwe yê yek mehî ku hê nav jî lê nehatibû kirin, bi awayekî hembêzkirî û dev vekirî, jiyana xwe ji dest dabûn. Wêneyê mijara gotinê, pistî ku di rojnameyan de hate wesandin, bû sembola komkujiya Helebceyê. Îro jî dema ku qala komkujiya Helebceyê tê kirin, Elî Hawar û zarokê wî yê yek mehî tê ber çavên mirov. Bandora bombeyên kîmyewî tenê bi mirina pênc hezar kurdan û seqet mayîna bi deh hezaran ve bi sînor nema, bandora bombeyên kîmyawî hê jî li bajêr didome.