Al-Shirqat District (Shirqat)

Al-Shirqat (also rendered Al-Shirqat District) is described in the supplied documentary sources as an administrative district of Saladin Governorate, Iraq, with the town of Al-Shirqat serving as the district capital. The district contains several settlements named in the sources (Khanugiyah, Mukhayim, Qaryat al Ḩūrīyah al Jadīdah, Al-Khadraniyah, Aynah, Ijamasa, and Jamaf) and the ancient site of Assur is located within its boundaries. Contemporary sources in the supplied material also place Al-Shirqat in the context of armed conflict in the mid-2010s, with at least one commentary/video description (dated 23/09/2016) referring to military operations against ISIS in the town/district and describing it as strategically significant in relation to Mosul. The supplied research notes and sources contain no documentation of grave-site hauntings, apparitions, supernatural entities, or local paranormal folklore associated with Al-Shirqat. There are no named spirits, folkloric narratives, or reported paranormal phenomena in the provided materials. The archival/video source frames events in secular, military and political terms rather than as supernatural occurrences.