northern
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Following the successful Sinjar push, Turkey said last month it would "gradually" hand control to Baghdad of its Bashiqa base near the northern city of Mosul although no timeline was given.
From Barron's ● Oct. 20, 2026
She said she used to work in these deprived northern suburbs, where poverty and crime rates are very high, and feared a whole lost generation was criminalising itself through anger and despair.
From BBC ● Oct. 20, 2026
As the PKK process has advanced, the Kurdish militants destroyed weapons at a symbolic ceremony last year, and this month, withdrew from four key bases in northern Iraq in a move confirmed by Turkish intelligence.
From Barron's ● Oct. 20, 2026
Israel’s northern frontiers are home to a large number of Arab Muslims, Christians and an insular Druze minority.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 19, 2026
His fields stretched from northern Iran into Azerbaijan, which, at the time, was a part of the Russian Empire.
From "Everything Sad Is Untrue" by Daniel Nayeri
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