Bashir, Iraq

Village in Kirkuk Governorate, Iraq From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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Bashir (Arabic: قرية بشير, romanized: Bašīr, Turkish: Beşir) is a village in Iraq, located south of Kirkuk. It is populated by Shia Turkmens.^[1]

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The village was captured by ISIL in June 2014.^[2] It was recaptured by Iraqi forces on 1 May 2016.^[3]

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