Tag: Kurd
Kurds take ground from Islamic State in north Iraq
Kurdish forces said they drove Islamic State out of several villages near the oil city of Kirkuk in northern Iraq on Wednesday...
Kurds battle Assad’s forces in Syria, opening new front in civil...
Syrian Kurds battled on Saturday with forces loyal to President Bashar al-Assad, Kurdish sources and a monitoring group said, breaking a longstanding...
Kurds’ battle for Kobani unites a people divided by borders
Cloaked in Kurdish flags, thousands of people lined the roads to cheer on a military convoy headed for what was -- until...
Turkey to let Iraqi Kurds reinforce Kobani as U.S. drops arms...
Turkey said on Monday it would allow Iraqi Kurdish fighters to reinforce fellow Kurds in the Syrian town of Kobani on Turkey's...
Iraq’s Shi’ite militia, Kurds use U.S. air strikes to further own...
A small group of people pick through putrefying human remains laid out on plastic sheets by the side of a road in...
Iran provided weapons to Iraqi Kurds; Baghdad bomb kills 12
Iran has supplied weapons and ammunition to Iraqi Kurdish forces, Kurdistan President Massoud Barzani said on Tuesday at a joint press conference...
Iraq supplies Kurds with ammunition in unprecedented move, U.S. says
The Iraqi government provided a planeload of ammunition to Peshmerga fighters from Iraq's semiautonomous Kurdish region on Friday, a U.S. official said,...
U.S. warplanes strike Islamic State artillery to protect Kurds
U.S. warplanes struck Iraq on Friday for the first time since American troops pulled out in 2011, attacking Islamist fighters advancing towards...
Islamic State surges in North Iraq, near Kurdistan border
Islamist militants surged across northern Iraq toward the capital of the Kurdish region on Thursday, sending tens of thousands of Christians fleeing...
Kurds from Iraq wage holy war in Syria with one eye...
Twenty-five year old Ako Abd al-Qadir went to wage holy war in Syria vowing to return and conquer all of Iraqi Kurdistan...
Kurds declare an interim administration in Syria
Ethnic Kurds declared an interim administration in northeastern Syria on Tuesday, further solidifying their geographic and political presence after driving out Islamist...
