It is regarded as part of Akre District in the Nineveh Governorate by the Iraqi government, however, it is de facto controlled by the Kurdistan Regional Government, as part of the Bardarash district of the Dohuk Governorate.

[4] He suffered considerably due to the proximity of the Assyrian refugee camp at Mindan in 1920 and his rivalry with Ḥājjī ʿAbdallāh ibn Raḥmān of Jujjar in the Aqra district was observed in a British intelligence report in 1923.

[4] In 1997, 79 villages were recorded as part of the Bardarash subdistrict with a total population of 47,564 people.

[9] A camp was established at Bardarash for Iraqis displaced by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant and was later semi-decommissioned in December 2017.

[11] By June 2021, 13,986 refugees had left after having obtained residency permits in the Kurdistan Region whilst 1488 had returned to Syria, leaving 3541 at the camp.