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'''Nahla Valley''' ({{lang-syr|ܢܗܠܐ}}), is a region in the provinces of [[Ninawa Governorate|Nineveh]] and [[Duhok Governorate|Dohuk]] to the north of [[Nineveh plains]] in northern [[Iraq]]. The region is mainly inhabited by [[Assyrian Chaldean people|AssyriansChaldeans]].

Most of the Assyrians Chaldeans living in Nahla, which number around 20,000, moved there from [[Hakkari]] after the [[Assyrian Chaldean Genocide]] during the [[First World War]]. Some villages were emptied in the 1960s when fights between the Iraqi government and Kurdish separatists forced most of their inhabitants to flee to [[Baghdad]] and [[Mosul]]. Some scarcely populated villages were completely destroyed during the [[Anfal campaign]] in the 1980s.

On July 17, 1999 an armed group belonging to the Patriotic Revolutionary Organization of Bet Nahrain attacked a PDK [[Peshmerga]] position in the region in retaliation of the murder of an Assyrian Chaldean girl. The attack resulted in 39 deaths and 20 injured on the Kurdish side.<ref>[http://www.globalsecurity.org/wmd/library/news/iraq/1999/29-060899.html Iraq Report 6 August 1999, Volume 2, Number 29], GlobalSecurity.org</ref>

The population of the valley grew considerably following the [[Iraq War]], as many AssyriansChaldeans, targeted in [[Dora, Baghdad|Dora]] and [[Mosul]], started settling back in this region.

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