Al-Bashir village comprises mostly Shiite Turkmen in the province of Kirkuk, Iraq. Pressure for an operation to retake the town had grown in March after ISIS launched a chemical attack from Al- Bashir on the nearby town of Taza that killed at least three children.
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The Iraqi Popular Mobilization Units (Al-Hashad Al-Shabi) freed this village during heavy clashes, after two years of occupation by Daesh (Islamic State of Iraq and Shaam, ISIS) elements. The population of Al-Bashir which is over ten thousand, is located in the path of the two large cities of Baghdad and Kirkuk in a strategic position. Al-Bashir is recaptured by pro-Iraqi government forces on 1 May 2016. In this operation about 200¿ ¿ people of Daesh were killed.