Jailed Kurdish Leader Abdullah Ocalan Calls On PKK To Disarm
Imprisoned Kurdish rebel leader Abdullah Ocalan has called on his fighters to lay down arms as part of a peace process to end a 30-year insurgency, Turkey’s main Kurdish party…
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Kurdish Fighters Capture Tel Hamees, ISIS Stronghold In Syria
Backed by U.S.-led coalition airstrikes, Kurdish fighters fought their way Friday into a northeastern Syrian town that was a key stronghold of Islamic State militants, only days after the group…
More Than 130 Islamic State Fighters Killed In Syria Clashes, Airstrikes: Monitor
BEIRUT, Feb 25 (Reuters) – At least 132 Islamic State fighters have been killed since Saturday in fighting with Kurdish militia backed by U.S.-backed air strikes in the northeastern Syrian…
More Than 130 Islamic State Fighters Killed In Syria Clashes, Airstrikes: Monitor
BEIRUT, Feb 25 (Reuters) – At least 132 Islamic State fighters have been killed since Saturday in fighting with Kurdish militia backed by U.S.-backed air strikes in the northeastern Syrian…
ISIS claims to behead 21 Peshmerga soldiers, releases video of them in cages
The video includes scenes showing Peshmerga prisoners still alive in cages and paraded in the streets of Kirkuk, which ISIS has shown in a previous video earlier this month. –…
Disclosures of Battle Plan by Pentagon Startle Many
WASHINGTON — The Obama administration has been eager to show momentum against the Islamic State after a conference last week dramatized the hurdles to countering the terrorist group’s propaganda. But…
Kurdish forces repel ISIS offensive in Iraq
Kurdish commanders say ISIS fighters had threatened to overrun Kurdish defensive positions in the area for a while, and the two sides were so close that airstrikes were not possible….
5 things to know for your New Day – Wednesday, February 18
ISIS Under attack: ISIS fighters have launched a major new assault in northern Iraq. The fighting is taking place about 30 miles from Irbil, the Kurdish capital, and challenges Peshmerga…
Kurds Become A 2016 Campaign Issue For Rand Paul
WASHINGTON — Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) is showing signs of trying to burnish his foreign policy credentials ahead of a likely run for president in 2016, establishing himself as a…
Start here: Latest developments on fight against ISIS
Bergen explains what ISIS is after in this CNN story Tuesdaythe end times, the apocalypse. It’s high time, Bergen argues, that the United States and others stop trying to rationalize…
ISIS launches major assault on Kurdish front in Iraq
A “big attack” is taking place some 45 kilometers (28 miles) from Irbil, the Kurdish capital, one Kurdish source told CNN, citing an assistant to Gen. Sirwan Barzani, commander of…
The Iraq conflict is becoming a tale of two regions
About 100 Kurdish Peshmerga fighters were at this frontline position in Eski Mosul late last week, perhaps the most contested piece of real estate in northern Iraq. It sits at…
Kurds Clash With Turkish Police While Calling For Release Of PKK Leader
By Seyhmus Cakan DIYARBAKIR, Turkey, Feb 15 (Reuters) – Thousands of Kurds rallied in towns across Turkey’s mainly Kurdish southeast on Sunday and some clashed with riot police in calling…
From Syria, an Atlas of a Country in Ruins
Recent satellite image analysis by Unitar-Unosat, an agency of the United Nations, reveals vast devastation in major cities across Syria from the civil war that started nearly four years ago….
Kurdish fighters battle equipment woes as well as ISIS in northern Iraq
Abdullah is one of a few dozen peshmerga stationed on Mount Zartak, overlooking Mosul from the east. The city is still firmly under the control of the Islamic State in…
Kurds say ISIS destroyed key Iraq bridge; airstrikes pound jihadist targets
About 30 kilometers southwest of Kirkuk, ISIS late Friday blew up a bridge that helps connect an ISIS-held area to the city, said Saman Jabari, a senior Kurdish political leader…
Kobani: A grim victory in the battle against ISIS
Entire buildings reduced to heap of rubble. A hospital virtually obliterated. Shoes and clothes strewn throughout the debris, their owners nowhere to be found. After four months of intense fighting,…
In Liberated Kobani, Pride Despite the Devastation
A Kurdish fighter in the town of Kobani, Syria, which was devastated by the Islamic State and an American-led air campaign to expel the militants.” KOBANI, Syria — Lasheen Abdulla…
Kurdish People Fast Facts
Population: approximately 25-30 million (some Kurds reside outside of Kurdistan) Religion: Most are Sunni Muslims; some practice Sufism, a type of mystic Islam Other Facts:Kurds have never achieved nation-state status,…
ISIS fighters say constant airstrikes drove them out of Kobani
On Monday, Kurdish fighters declared that they had released the city on the border to Turkey from ISIS’ grip after 112 days of fighting. The efforts of the Kurdish fighters…
ISIS Launches Surprise Attack on Kirkuk, Killing Top Kurdish Commander
BAGHDAD — Exploiting a foggy night as cover, Islamic State militants launched a surprise attack on Kurdish positions on the outskirts of the northern Iraqi city of Kirkuk early Friday,…
11 Striking Photos From Kobani After Kurdish Forces Claim Victory Over ISIS
After a brutal battle of attrition for the Syrian border town of Kobani, Kurdish forces announced this week that they had taken back control from Islamic State militants. While airstrikes…
Kurdish Officials Say They’ve Nearly Pushed ISIS Out Of Kobani
Kurdish fighters backed by intense U.S.-led airstrikes pushed the Islamic State group almost entirely out of the Syrian town of Kobani on Monday, marking a major loss for extremists whose…
Refugees In Iraqi Camps Face Harrowing Winter
Despite the latest successes of the Iraqi Army and the forces of the Kurdish regional government, known as the peshmerga, hundreds of thousands of refugees in Iraq are facing a…
Hills, hairpins, harmonies: On the road in Iranian Kurdistan
“Yavash, yavash,” the small, gray-haired doctor says, leaning across from the passenger seat to put a hand on his friend’s shoulder, imploring him to slow down the black Toyota as…