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  1. Town in NE Iraq; population (1985) 208,000.
  2. It is the centre of a major oilfield.
  3. Formerly it was served by several pipelines
  4. providing outlets to Lebanon, Syria, and
  5. other countries, but closures caused by the
  6. Iran-Iraq war left only the pipeline to
  7. Turkey operational.
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