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Inspired by the violent exhortations of a preacher during Friday prayers earlier this month, hundreds of young Kurdish men in the northern Iraqi town of Zakho went on a riot.
The desperate plight of Iraq's Assyrians and other minorities | Mardean Isaac 2011
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More than 30 people were wounded Friday when a mob instigated by a fiery mosque preacher set fire to liquor stores and hotels owned by Christians and other minorities in the northern city of Zakho.
An 'Arab Winter' Chills Christians Sam Dagher 2011
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The Kurdistan regional government KRG responded to the Zakho riots by paying lip service to Kurdish "traditions of ethnic and religious co-existence" – though there was little sign of such traditions being observed.
The desperate plight of Iraq's Assyrians and other minorities | Mardean Isaac 2011
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Some seventy families from Zakho excelled in shipping woods and cargo from Kurdistan down the rivers to the arid areas.
Kurdish Women. 2009
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The immigrants who arrived from Iraq via Syria (particularly those from Zakho) integrated very successfully into the agricultural scene and by the thirties a chain migration was established when the population of many Kurdish villages immigrated to Israel.
Kurdish Women. 2009
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Two weeks later the refugees rode buses over the mountains to the far-north city of Zakho.
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She slept in the border town of Zakho, in the home of a guerrilla fighter.
The Accuser 2005
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She slept in the border town of Zakho, in the home of a guerrilla fighter.
The Accuser 2005
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Because of changes in its mission as a result of the closing last fall of the Military Command Center (MCC) in the city of Zakho, Iraq and the shift of humanitarian assistance in the north under UNSCR 986 to international organizations, the designation
Letter On Us Efforts For Iraqi Compliance Clinton, Bill, 1946- 1997
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Six headquarters of the Kurdistan Islamic Union in and around Zakho, and in the nearby city of Dohuk, were set on fire or otherwise assaulted, said Zakho police officer Ahmed Doski.
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