has made it a centre of conflict between rival powers ever since the US invasion of Iraq in 2003.

Hawija is also one of the most important agricultural areas and the second-largest source of vegetables in Iraq.

The area's mainly Sunni Arab population of 450,000 is deeply hostile to both the Shia-led government in Baghdad and to the Kurds who form the historic majority in adjacent areas, which - in part - was what buoyed ISIL's control of the area.

In 2013, activists and political parties called for the conversion of Hawija from a province into a governorate, but the Kirkuk provincial council blocked the proposal.

US-led coalition troops nicknamed Hawija the "Kandahar in Iraq" after it put up fierce resistance to the 2003 US invasion, similar to that in the Taliban'sClaims ABSTRACT OF THE DISCLOSURE A swimming pool cleaner comprising a car having two turbine-driven rear wheels and a steerable front wheel guided on an endless track in the form of a weighted tube resting on the bottom of the pool. Water under pressure from the pool circulation system is delivered to the turbine to drive the rear wheels, and exits through two elongated sweep hoses which direct the water in jets into the pool.

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