Q&A — Kurds fight IS and endure Turkish attacks
BAGHDAD: US and Turkish plans to create an “Islamic State-free zone” in Syria along the Turkish border could escalate the conflict between Turkey and Kurdish fighters in Syria and Iraq. With the help...
View ArticleQ&A: Kurds fight Islamic State and endure Turkish attacks
Reprints + - FILE - In this Thursday Jan. 29, 2015 file photo, a Syrian fighter from the Syria-based People's Protection Units better known as the YPG stands in front of a wall covered with graffiti in...
View ArticleHow the Kurds play into the fight in Iraq and Syria
BAGHDAD -- U.S. and Turkish plans to create an "Islamic State-free zone" in Syria along the Turkish border could escalate the conflict between Turkey and Kurdish fighters in Syria and Iraq. With the...
View ArticleKurds fight the IS group while being bombed by Turkey
Turkish jets struck camps belonging to Kurdish militants in northern Iraq Friday and Saturday in what were the first strikes since a peace deal was announced in 2013. The strikes in Iraq targeted the...
View ArticleQ&A: Kurds fight Islamic State and endure attacks
Turkish jets struck camps belonging to Kurdish militants in northern Iraq Friday and Saturday in what were the first strikes since a peace deal was announced in 2013. The strikes in Iraq targeted the...
View ArticleThe Kurd-Shia War Behind the War on ISIS
In a dusty town near the Iranian border, the terror group was defeated, but the victors are at each other’s throats. JALAWLA, Iraq — Behind Iraq’s front lines against the so-called Islamic State,...
View ArticleThe Kurds Trying to Beat Islamic State Have Lots of Other Problems
Last year’s sweeping offensive by Islamic State militants through northern Iraq thrust one community in particular to the fore – the Kurds. As Baghdad’s power withered under the assault, Kurdish...
View ArticleThe Kurdish Connection: Israel, ISIS and U.S. Efforts to Destabilize Iran
SYRIA (Analysis)– In Part I of independent analyst Sarah Abed’s three-part analysis for MintPress News, Abed began exposing the modern day Kurdish/Israeli alliance that both parties have tried to keep...
View ArticleThe Iraqi Kurds and then came ISIL
It took two planes, a road trip and a rinky-dink speedboat to get me to Iraq's Kurdish region in January 2003. It was the run-up to the US-led invasion. Journalists were competing to get in. But...
View ArticleThe Kurds could be the key to the Middle East
“I am puzzled by God’s wisdom That, among all nations, has denied Kurds a state of their own!” This is how Kurdish poet Ahmadi Khani expressed his people’s feelings in “Love and Life,” the epic he...
View ArticleIraq profile - timeline
2 April 2015 From the section Middle East A chronology of key events: 1534 - 1918 - Region is part of the Ottoman Empire. Iraq timeline - the short version 1534-1918 - Ottoman rule. 1917 - Britain...
View ArticleThe democratic republic of The People's Teahouse
SULAIMANIA -- Walk too quickly and you might just miss it. Wedged between a shoe shop and a men's clothing stall, there is a narrow, rundown doorway. Pass through it and make your way down the dark...
View ArticleHero Ibrahim Ahmad: The original female Peshmerga
There is a now iconic photograph of Hero Ibrahim Ahmad in the Zagros Mountains, taken sometime in the 1980s, at the height of the Kurdish resistance against Saddam Hussein's Baathist regime. She is the...
View ArticleKurds of Syria, Turkey and Iraqi unite to build Kurdistan - an alternative...
A YPG fighter stands atop a farmhouse near the contested town of Tel Hamis, the yellow YPG flag raised to symbolise the area's liberation from IS. Photo: Fadi Yeni Turk Iraq and Syria: the situation in...
View ArticleKurds unite to build Kurdistan in defiance of Islamic State
A YPG fighter stands atop a farmhouse near the contested town of Tel Hamis, the yellow YPG flag raised to symbolise the area's liberation from IS. Photo: Fadi Yeni Turk Iraq and Syria: the situation in...
View ArticleThe Kurds Are Nearly There
Ahmed Jadallah/Reuters Kurdish peshmerga fighters at the front line during a battle with Islamic State militants near Mosul, Iraq, October 20161. The battle for Mosul has begun. For the past two years,...
View ArticleMarked With An "X"
Summary Since early 2014, when the extremist group Islamic State, also known as ISIS, launched its offensive in Iraq, fighting has displaced over three million Iraqis from their homes. Of these, an...
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