Naft Khana
Village in Iraq From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Naft Khana is an Iraqi town in Diyala Governorate, central Iraq, near the Iraqi-Iranian border.[1] Its population were Kurdish nationality during the Iran-Iraq war. Its residents were displaced according to the Arabization policy. Nearby are oil fields containing oil wells found by British companies after the British occupation in 1924.[2] It is considered one of the richest areas in the Diyala Governorate.[3]
And it turned into a purely military area, where Iraqi army established camps and headquarters for the border guards, and after the American-Iraqi war, and after the fall of Saddam Hussein's regime, specifically in the year 2003, Kurdish families began to return to this area, but they found it a barren desert inhabited only by wolves.[4][5]
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