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We're in the city of Dohuk, which is quite close to Mosul.
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Their tribe originally hails from the city of Dohuk, which is well inside the Kurdish-controlled area of Iraq's north, but the Kurdish government stopped Majeed's family from returning there.
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In those polling centres where there were large IDP concentrations, such as Dohuk, large queues built up that put pressure on polling stations and resulted in some IDP voters being unable to cast their ballots.
unknown title 2009
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The riots themselves were completely unpoliced, though the authorities rounded up members of the opposition Kurdish Islamic Union and razed its Dohuk headquarters, despite no evidence of KIU culpability.
The desperate plight of Iraq's Assyrians and other minorities | Mardean Isaac 2011
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They also attacked an Assyrian church and homes in the neighbouring village of Mansouriyah and destroyed property including four hotels, a health club and an Assyrian social club in Dohuk.
The desperate plight of Iraq's Assyrians and other minorities | Mardean Isaac 2011
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Arabs counter that Sinjar has been a mixed city for some time, and they suspect that Kurds covet the oil between Sinjar and Dohuk.
Breaking Away 2007
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As it turns out, Mr. Galbraith received the rights after he helped negotiate a potentially lucrative contract that allowed the Norwegian oil company DNO to drill for oil in the promising Dohuk region of Kurdistan, the interviews and documents show ...
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Arabs counter that Sinjar has been a mixed city for some time, and they suspect that Kurds covet the oil between Sinjar and Dohuk.
Breaking Away 2007
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Abdullah Hamza, who lives in the Amydi district of Dohuk province, said a bomb hit his home Thursday evening, but no one in his family was hurt.
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Residents near the Turkish-Iraqi border reported bombings, artillery fire and shooting in the area of the Judi Mountains, which form part of the border between Turkey and northern Iraq, and in the Amydi district in Iraqi Kurdistan's Dohuk province, which is about 115 miles from Erbil, the regional capital.
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