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    The battle for the liberation of Tal Afar, which is about to start, may not be as easy as the military leadership talks about.

    The predominantly Turkmen city has parts that are very similar to the right-hand coast of Mosul and the Old City.

    Those areas had disrupted military operations in Mosul for several months, given their complex and interconnected nature.

    In the southern part of the city there are large areas of dense orchards, which may play a decisive role in resolving the battle.

    However, the positive element in the process of liberating Tal Afar is that families that do not belong to Daish live on the outskirts of the city. The numbers of the organization's militants are not many, as most forecasts indicate that they are only a few dozen.

    In the meantime, there is information about the presence of hostages held in underground shelters, and that the delay of the fighting threatens their lives.

    For more than three years, the region's tribes and displaced people have been planning demonstrations if the government does not reopen Tal Afar for the next three days.
    They speak of the loss of hundreds of Turkoman sons who were involved in the liberation process in the popular crowd in Mosul and Tikrit, and that the time for harvesting the price of sacrifices has come.

    Preparations for the break-in of Tal Afar have reached an advanced stage. Since the start of the Nineveh Liberation 11 months ago, Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi has avoided side wars on the liberation of the Turkmen city that could affect the main battle of Mosul.

    The restoration of Tal Afar faces a complex challenge of the nature of the forces that will take part in the storming of the city, and the Turkish veto that prevents the participation of the popular crowd in the process.

    To get out of this impasse, political parties expected the prime minister to seek the help of army and elite forces, which had just completed their mission in Mosul. It seems that this option is the closest to verification, as the crowd is likely to limit the city from outside.
    Sources in the crowd accused the prime minister of having put a "veto" on their participation in the battle to liberate the city and that he had deported them to Baaj, which was liberated in June.

    A few days after the fall of Mosul, however, in June 2014, the organization took control of the Turkmen city. Tal Afar was to be liberated with the start of military operations in Nineveh, which began in October, to form a cordon on Mosul from both sides of the West and East. But Turkish threats and disagreements over who will take part in the restoration of the city have been postponed until after the liberation of Mosul.

    "The anti-terror forces, the army and the local police will storm the city, while the popular crowd will surround the outskirts of Tal Afar," said Nahla al-Hababi, a Turkmen MP from Tal Afar.

    Earlier reports had leaked about the presence of a joint group of Sunni Turkmen and Shi'ites preparing to fight the battle of Tal Afar.

    Last winter
    "If it were allowed last winter for the popular crowd to break into the city, the city would have been freed in record time," Habibi said in a statement to Al-Mada.

    "The Tal Afar district will be liberated by all the forces that liberated Al-Nasr, Tikrit, Fallujah and Mosul, and the popular crowd will be among them," Abadi said in a speech at a celebration held by the Abbas military brigade on Saturday.

    A month after the liberation of Mosul, the crowd entered the military campaign in areas west of Mosul. At the end of last year, the crowd announced the isolation of "Tal Afar" from Syria. But three months later, information about the escape of al-Baghdadi from those areas to the Ba'ja was leaked after violent clashes.

    "The delay in liberating the city helped to restore his breath and arrange his papers at home, after he had fled the town," Habibi said.

    The MP believes that a coalition of state law that "the organization in that period brought some of his families to Tal Afar and also the booby-trapped houses that were not booby-trapped."
    The delay in military operations threatens the lives of a number of civilians inside Tal Afar. "There are only a few civilians, but an advocate is holding 250 Shiite Turkmen in underground shelters," Habibi said.

    He was a preacher was executed 200 civilians last month, while fleeing from Tal Afar towards the Kurdistan region. "The tribal elders of Nineveh, who asked Turkey to prevent the entry of the crowd into the city."

    Noureddine Qabalan, a Turkmen who serves as deputy chairman of the Nineveh governor, estimates that "only about 50 families of innocent people are in the center of Tal Afar."
    The urban population with districts and villages, before the advent of a populist in 2014, was estimated at 500,000. The region includes 100 villages, one of the most important food baskets in Iraq.

    "The families that did not belong to Dahesh live on the outskirts of the city in 12 villages," Qablan said in a telephone conversation yesterday.

    Next to Tal Afar, there are local localities in the south and Ayadiyah in the northwest of the city, where the expected military operations are expected to begin.
    "There are 500 families in al-Halabiya, after most of the population has been displaced to the liberated areas, and Al Ayadiyah is less than that, and there are no more than 30 families," he said.

    Expectations of the battle
    "The Iraqi forces are close to Tal Afar at a distance of 7 kilometers," said Ahmad Yousef, a district commander in the district of al-Baaj, near Tal Afar.

    "The military preparations have reached an advanced stage and are waiting for zero hour," Yousuf said in an interview with Al-Mada.

    Observers believe Abadi delayed the restoration of Tal Afar for several months, not wanting to escalate with Turkey, which threatens to intervene.

    The elders of the Tal Afar clan and their natives gave the government 10 days to announce the start of the military operation, and it will end after 3 days. "The people of the city gave 1,000 martyrs in the popular crowd," Talabar's deputies said.

    "The displaced have been displaced for more than three years in the camps and are no longer able to survive because of their poor conditions," said MP Nahla al-Hababi, who abandoned her family years ago from Tal Afar during the al-Qaeda period. "The displaced have given the government until August 10, They will organize angry demonstrations. "

    The Turkmen MP believes that "the battle of Tal Afar will not be easy, as the city has the leaders of the preachers and the most prominent of the fighters who gathered after the loss of Mosul."
    Recently, the commander of Nineveh operations Major General Najm al-Jubouri said that the battle to regain Tal Afar would be easier than the battle of Mosul. "I do not expect a fierce battle in the city," he said.

    "The center of Tal Afar at the famous Citadel includes old and old neighborhoods resembling old Mosul, as well as the dense orchards in the south of the city," Habiby said.



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