The phenomenon of the Anfal, the official military codename used by the government in its public pronouncements and internal memoranda, was well known inside Iraq, especially in the Kurdish region.

The Anfal campaign was not the first time Koreme was attacked by Iraqi army forces. Koreme was partly or largely destroyed in periodic attacks that occurred during the previous two decades ...

The Anfal campaign, carried out in eight stages across the Kurdistan Region in the late 1980s, resulted in the massacre of more than 182,000 Kurds and the destruction of over 4,500 villages.

ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - Relatives of Anfal campaign victims visited the ill-reputed Nugra Salman prison near the Iraq-Saudi borders, along with a recently uncovered mass grave site in the ...

Hundreds of thousands of men, women and children were executed during a systematic attempt to exterminate the Kurdish population in Iraq in the Anfal operations in the late 1980s by the then Baath ...