Tal Banat

Tal Banat (also written Tel Benat, Arabic: تل بنات; Kurdish: ته‌ل به‌نات, romanized: Tel Benat,^[2][3] also known in Arabic as al-Waleed) is a village located in the Sinjar District of the Ninawa Governorate in Iraq. The village is located south of the Sinjar Mount. It belongs to the disputed territories of Northern Iraq.^[1]

Tal Banat
Village
Tal Banat Location in Iraq
Coordinates: 36°15′18″N 42°0′59″E
Country	Iraq
Governorate	Ninawa
District	Sinjar District
Population  (July 2014[1])
• Total	14,000

Tal Banat has a mainly Yazidi population. There are also about 1,400 Shia Turkmens in the village.^[1]

In August 2014, the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant abducted more than 200 women and children from Tal Banat.^[4]

See also

• Yazidis in Iraq

References

1. "Emerging Land Tenure Issues among Displaced Yazidis from Sinjar, Iraq" (PDF). United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN–Habitat). November 2015. Retrieved 2018-12-05.
2. "Qasim Dirbo: Heşdî şeibî nahêle xelk qesta gund û warê xwe bike". Rojname (in Kurdish). Retrieved 19 December 2019.
3. "شنگال له‌نێوان ئازارێكی قوڵ و ململانێیه‌كی گه‌رمدا – Knwe.org" (in Kurdish). Retrieved 19 December 2019.
4. Report on the Protection of Civilians in Armed Conflict in Iraq: 6 July – 10 September 2014. UN Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI) and the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR). Retrieved December 4, 2018.