Aktuelle Uhrzeit in Halabja, Irak — AST.

The Halabja massacre took place in Iraqi Kurdistan on 16 March 1988, when thousands of Kurds were killed by a large-scale Iraqi chemical attack. A targeted attack in Halabja, it was carried out during the Anfal campaign, which was led by Iraqi military officer Ali Hassan al-Majid. Two days before the attack, the city had been captured by Iran as part of Operation Zafar 7 of the Iran–Iraq War. Following the incident, the United Nations launched an investigation and concluded that mustard gas as well as unidentified nerve agents had been used against Kurdish civilians. The BBC later reported that a mixture of mustard, tabun, sarin, and VX, was used. The United States Defense Intelligence Agency initially blamed Iran for the attack, though the majority of evidence later revealed that Iraq had used the chemical weapons to bolster an ongoing military offensive against Iran, pro-Iranian Kurdish fighters, and ordinary Halabja residents.

Reading Halabja against the global hubs: Dubai (~1,422 km), London (~4,061 km), Singapore (~7,044 km) are the close ones, with Sydney (~13,338 km) sitting on the opposite side of the planet — a good gut check when judging logistics windows.

Halabja sits inside Irak — the Western Asia subregion, capital Baghdad, languages Arabic, Aramaic, Sorani, currency IQD (ع.د).

The closest mapped neighbors of Halabja are Pāveh (37 km), Marīvān (42 km), Baynjiwayn (49 km), Javānrūd (64 km), so commuter, logistics and same-day-trip planning will usually pull from this cluster.

Closest curated airport references from Halabja: EBL Arbil (219 km), BGW Baghdad (267 km), OSM Mosul (285 km).