Tal Afar (Arabic: تلعفر or تل عفر‎, Turkish: Telafer) (pronounced /ta.la.fer/), also known as Tal'Afar, Tall Afar, Tell Afar or Tel Afar, is a city and district in northwestern Iraq in the Nineveh Province located approximately 50 km west of Mosul and 200 km north west of Kirkuk.