Mandali, Iraq

Mandali (Arabic مندلي, Kurdish: Mendeli ) is an Iraqi city in the province of Diyala, near the Iranian border. The population is estimated at 5,800 inhabitants.

The city is located about 120 km northeast of Baghdad between Khanaqin and Badrah.

History

During the systematic Arabization of the Iraqi regime, many Kurds were displaced and settled Arabs in the city. The Kurds were resettled in the south of Iraq or have fled to the Kurdish-controlled north.

The city gained military historical significance tried as Iranian troops in April 1983, to break through the front line in Iraq Mandali and so freizuschiessen the way to Baghdad in the first Gulf War. Despite the so-called tactics of human waves, in which thousands of poorly-armed Iranian soldiers on the front zustürmten without coverage, failed the Iranian offensive on the bitter resistance of the better-equipped Iraqi army, which began artillery and air force. Are alone in the fighting around Mandali about 100,000 Iranians and 50,000 Iraqis have lost their lives. The Mandali offensive was one of the last great attempts to break through in the First Gulf War: After the failure of the Iranian plans stabilized the front and changed only marginally until the armistice of 1988.

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