* March 27, 2007: Tal Afar bombings and massacre in Iraq-152 killed

In 2004, however, Mosul and Tal Afar were the scenes of fierce battles between US-led troops and the Iraqi insurgency.

* September 1: Battle of Tal Afar: US troops launch an offensive in Tal Afar, a city that would become a “ model ” for the Americans.

* March 27: A bombing in Tal Afar, which killed 152, set off Shia retaliation which left 70 Sunnis dead.

* Tal Afar, in Iraq

Al-Sada in Tal Afar

* Letter from Iraq: " The Lesson of Tal Afar " April 10, 2006.

Major Stuart Anderson-a member of the U. S. Army Reserve who died in the January 7, 2006 UH-60 Black Hawk near Tal Afar, Iraq was also recently buried at Linwood.

U. S. M1 Abrams battle tanks patrolling Tal Afar as insurgents used it as a staging point for attacks in the Iraq War

The first of the offensives began on September 1, 2004, when U. S. and Iraqi forces besieged the northern Turkmen city of Tal Afar, located west of Mosul.

This was considered by analysts to be a direct challenge to the authority of the Iraqi government, and although the U. S. and Iraqi armies attempted to quell the violence using large-scale, house-to-house operations in Baghdad, Tal Afar, and elsewhere, the bombings were only temporarily halted while the insurgency regrouped and planned a new offensive.

On September 10, thousands of Iraqi soldiers, backed by Coalition forces, assaulted Tal Afar in search of suspected Sunni Arab insurgents.

Tal Afar had been reported as a conduit for equipment and local fighters smuggled in from Syria.

* September 10-Iraqi forces and US troops attack Iraqi insurgents in Tal Afar.

On January 18, 2005, an Iraqi family was traveling in a car which failed to stop at a U. S. checkpoint in Tal Afar.

* Tal Afar, scene of the checkpoint killings.

Deploying to Tal Afar in northern Iraq, the Iron Dukes served as the primary force transitioning with the 2nd Squadron, 3rd Armored Cavalry Regiment in securing the city.

2 / 3 ACR had performed admirably in fighting to retake the city of Tal Afar from Taqfiri insurgents, mainly consisting of foreign fighters and Sunni citizens of Tal Afar, who had entered into open conflict with the majority Shia security forces in the city.

" Tal Cohen of Tal Cohen's Bookshelf called The Edge of Human " a good book ", praising Jeter's " further, and deeper, investigation of the questions Philip K. Dick originally asked ", but criticized the book for its " needless grandioseness " and for " rel on Blade Runner too heavily, the number of new characters introduced is extremely small ..."

The position that " Christian theological anti-Judaism is a phenomenon distinct from modern antisemitism, which is rooted in economic and racial thought, so that Christian teachings should not be held responsible for antisemitism " has been articulated, among other places, by Pope John Paul II in ' We Re member: A Reflection on the Shoah ,' and the Jewish declaration on Christianity, Dabru Emet .. Several scholars, including Susannah Heschel, Gavin I Langmuir and Uriel Tal the General Synod has affirmed that " the good news of salvation in Jesus Christ is for all and must be shared with all including people from other faiths or of no faith and that to do anything else would be to institutionalize discrimination ".

Chord-melody is often played with a plectrum ( see Tal Farlow, George Benson and others ); whereas fingerstyle, as practised by Joe Pass, George van Eps, Ted Greene, Lenny Breau or hybrid picking as practised by Ed Bickert and others allows for a more complex, polyphonic approach to unaccompanied soloing.

" There is a Tal Faran (" Hill of Faran ") on the outskirts of Mecca.

Only the Praetor, who heads the Committee, is guaranteed a seat ; others, even the chairman of the Tal Shiar, must compete to be allowed in.

However, it is possible that the unnamed Romulan general officer who rescued Tasha Yar and fathered Sela ( TNG's " Redemption Part II ") was with the Tal Shiar: without official canon sources, these remain purely conjectural.

The Tal Shiar is a Romulan intelligence organization.

The name is an homage to the Tal Shaya, a Vulcan method of execution from the original Star Trek series where the neck is broken with a swift stroke for a quick and merciful death.

The Romulan Senate also has the Continuing Committee, which is composed of senators and the chairman of the Tal Shiar and confirms the new praetor.

In 1985 Uriel Tal, in his Foundations of a Political Messianic Trend in Israel, argued that Hess's position is to be contextualised within a totalitarian messianic force, whose process he summed up as follows.

Seated, facing right, is Mikhail Tal, then world champion.

His overall performance in Olympiad play is impressive: + 78 − 1 = 50 ( only one game lost, to Robert Hübner, out of 129 played ), for 79. 8 per cent, the third all-time best performance after Mikhail Tal and Anatoly Karpov.

Petrosian introduced the exchange sacrifice for the sake of ' quality of position ', where the time factor, which is so important in the play of Alekhine and Tal, plays hardly any role.

* " It is to Petrosian's advantage that his opponents never know when he is suddenly going to play like Mikhail Tal.

Furthermore, limestone is still mined at Elbingerode in three large open pits ( Werk Rübeland, Werk Kaltes Tal and Werk Hornberg ).

The Mikhail Tal Memorial is held in Moscow each year since 2006 to honour his memory.

Unlike other secret police organizations in the Star Trek universe, such as the Romulan Tal Shiar and the Cardassian Obsidian Order, Section 31 is not an actual branch of government.

The particle, discovered first by a Ferengi mining guild, is about to be sold to the Cardassians ; the Tal Shiar sends Admiral Sela to secure it before that happens.

On the first day of Passover, the traditional beginning of the dry season in Israel, a special extended prayer for dew ( Tefillat Tal ) is added.

In early 2000, Chris Hayes left the News to spend more time with his family, though he performed on their 2001 album Plan B. Stef Burns replaced Hayes, although guitarists Tal Morris and James Harrah have also filled in when Burns has had other commitments.

He has also won the two strongest tournaments ( by rating strength ) in chess history: the 2009 Mikhail Tal Memorial and the 2010 Grand Slam Masters Final.

Tal was also a highly regarded chess writer.

He also had plus records against World Champions Euwe and Tal, and equal records against Smyslov, Petrosian and Anatoly Karpov.

* The Classical Fianchetto Variation, also known as the Tal Variation, can be reached through two move orders: 4. e3 b6 5. Bd3 Bb7 6. Nf3 0-0 7. 0-0 d5 or 4. e3 0-0 5. Bd3 d5 6. Nf3 b6 7. 0-0 Bb7.

In the 1965 Candidates ' matches, he first defeated Borislav Ivkov at Bled by 5½ – 2½, but lost in the semi-final, also at Bled by 4½ – 5½ to former world champion Mikhail Tal.

Steve is also the author of the award winning " The Jazz Style of Tal Farlow: The Elements of Bebop Guitar " and " The Motivic Basis for Jazz Guitar Improvisation " ( Hal Leonard Corp .) Both Rochinski and his book contributed to the reintroduction of Tal Farlow to the jazz guitar community, where Farlow remained a major figure until his death in July 1998.

It is a dynamic opening, exceptionally complex, and a favourite of former world champions Garry Kasparov, Bobby Fischer, and Mikhail Tal, with prominent grandmasters Viktor Korchnoi, Miguel Najdorf, Efim Geller, John Nunn, Svetozar Gligorić, Wolfgang Uhlmann, Ilya Smirin, and Teimour Radjabov having also contributed much to the theory and practice of this opening.

Tal Ilan's catalogue of Jewish name inscriptions of the period ( 2002 ) notes variation is the spelling of " Joseph " ( indeclinable in Greek ) and various shorter ( and sometimes declined ) Greek variants but also notes that the full form Joseph is dominant with 47 of 69 Greek inscriptions.

' Tāla, Taal or Tal ( Sanskrit tālà, literally a " clap ", also transliterated as " tala ") is the term used in Indian classical music for the rhythmic pattern of any composition and for the entire subject of rhythm, roughly corresponding to metre in Western music, though closer conceptual equivalents are to be found in the older system of rhythmic mode and its relations with the " foot " of classical poetry, or with other Asian classical systems such as the notion of usul in the theory of Ottoman / Turkish music.

Israel Tal (, September 13, 1924, – September 8, 2010 also known as Talik ( Hebrew: טליק ), was an Israel Defense Forces ( IDF ) general known for his knowledge of tank warfare and for leading the development of Israel's Merkava tank.

This boundary is also the watershed between the Kalser Tal and its side valleys, the Teischnitz and the Ködnitz valleys on the Tyrolean side and the Möll valley with its glacier, the Pasterze, on the Carinthian side.

Winnetou I – III, Der Schatz im Silbersee, Old Shatterhand and Winnetou und Shatterhand im Tal der Toten are also available on DVD ( region-code 2 ), but all in German only.

Begnas Tal is also known for its fishery projects.

It is also known as Ravana Tal, as it is considered to be the place of severe penance tapasya by Ravana, the ten-headed demon-like egoistic King of Lanka in Hindu mythology.

Reviewing Close Quarters Battle, Tal Blevins of IGN praised the graphics, level design and AI ( although noting an occasional tendency for computer-controlled SWAT officers to walk into the player's line of fire, resulting in friendly fire incidents ), but also praised the clean interface, dialogue recording and mission briefing screens and the feel of the weapons.

However, at the end of the miniseries it was revealed that the Scy ' ar Tal also conquered the World before they settled on it, so who lived there before and built the M ' Kraan Crystal remains a mystery.

Wasfi Al Tal ( also Wasfi Tel ) ( 1919-28 November 1971 ) () was Prime Minister of Jordan for three separate terms.

) by Erez Tal and Avri Gilad, playing the part of Jimmy Ohana-a singer singing humorous parodies on well-known Israeli songs ( Robas also later appeared in Tal and gilad's TV show HaOlam HaErev ( The World Tonight ), as well as in the Israeli Educational TV programs Zehu Ze ( That's It ) and Roim 6 / 6 ( Eyesight 20 / 20 )).

Carnedd Dafydd rises to height of 1, 044m ( according to OS maps detail ) and is usually climbed by first ascending Pen yr Ole Wen and then following the ridge along to Carnedd Dafydd, though it is also possible to make a direct ascent from Tal y Llyn Ogwen, first following the stream, Afon Lloer, to the mountain lake of Ffynnon Lloer then climbing up the slope to the summit.