Battle of Sulaymaniyah
| Battle of Sulaymaniyah | |||||||||
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| Part of the 1991 uprisings in Iraq | |||||||||
Kurdish fighters during the battle | |||||||||
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Saddam Hussein Izzat Ibrahim al-Douri Ali Hassan al-Majid |
Jalal Talabani | ||||||||
The Battle of Sulaymaniyah was one of the battles fought during the 1991 uprisings in Iraq. Sulaymaniyah, a mostly Kurdish city with a population of over 100,000, was the first to be liberated by the rebels and the last to fall back to the Iraqi army.