Tag: Kurdish
U.S. dismisses fears of wider war after deadly Syria clashes
U.S. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis dismissed concerns on Thursday that the United States was being dragged into a broader conflict in Syria,...
Turkey’s Erdogan says military operation to make big sweep east across...
President Tayyip Erdogan said on Friday Turkish forces would sweep Kurdish fighters from the Syrian border and could push all the way...
Thousands of troops sent to Kirkuk to face ‘Iraqi threat’
Kurdish authorities have sent thousands more troops to the oil region of Kirkuk to confront "threats" from Iraq's central government, the vice...
Western powers press Iraq Kurd leaders to shelve ‘very risky’ independence...
The United States and Western allies pressed Iraqi Kurdish leaders to ditch a "very risky" independence vote on Thursday, presenting an alternative...
Erdogan says Turkey and Iran discussing joint action against Kurdish militants
Turkey and Iran have discussed possible joint military action against Kurdish militant groups, after talks in Ankara last week between the chief...
After military shake-up, Erdogan says Turkey to tackle Kurds in Syria
Days after a reshuffle of Turkey's top military commanders, President Tayyip Erdogan has revived warnings of military action against Kurdish fighters in...
New conflicts threaten Syria after Islamic State defeat
Sheen Ibrahim's track record fighting ultra-hardline militants explains U.S. President Donald Trump's policy of arming Syrian Kurds like her as he seeks...
U.S. will take weapons from Kurds after Islamic State defeat –...
The United States has told Turkey it will take back weapons supplied to the Kurdish YPG militia in northern Syria after the...
Turkish army thrusts deeper into Syria, monitor says 35 villagers killed
Turkey's army and its allies thrust deeper into Syria on Sunday, seizing territory controlled by Kurdish-aligned forces on the fifth day of...
More than 5,000 Kurdish militants killed since July – Turkey’s Erdogan
Turkish security forces have killed more than 5,000 militants belonging to the outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) since its ceasefire with the...
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 take ten villages from Islamic State in north Iraq
Kurdish forces backed by U.S.-led coalition airstrikes drove Islamic State militants out of 10 villages in Iraq's Kirkuk province on Wednesday in...
Syrian Kurds, on offensive, seize military base from Islamic State
Kurdish-led forces said on Monday that they had captured a military base from Islamic State in Syria's Raqqa province, advancing deeper into...
Victories over Islamic State give Syria Kurds claim to bigger role
With a string of victories over Islamic State, Syria's Kurds are proving themselves an ever more dependable ally in the U.S.-led fight...
Iraqi Kurds say Islamic State used chlorine gas against them
Iraqi Kurdish authorities said on Saturday they had evidence that Islamic State had used chlorine gas as a chemical weapon against their...
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...
Peshmergas blunt, don’t break, Islamic State siege of Syria’s Kobani
Iraqi Kurdish forces have blunted but not broken the siege of the Syrian border town of Kobani, a week after arriving to...
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...
Iraqi Kurdish forces enter Syria to fight Islamic State
A first group of Iraqi Kurdish peshmerga fighters entered the besieged Syrian town of Kobani on Thursday to help push back Islamic...
Italy may begin weapons deliveries to Iraq Kurds by September 10
Italy should be able to start deliveries of weapons to Kurdish forces by next week, once final arrangements with Iraqi authorities are...
Germany to send Iraqi Kurds enough weapons for 4,000 fighters
Germany will send enough weapons to arm 4,000 Kurdish fighters in northern Iraq battling against Islamic State (IS) insurgents, whose advances threaten...
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...
Syrian Kurds’ military gains stir unease
With a string of military gains across northeastern Syria, a Kurdish militia is solidifying a geographic and political presence in the war-torn...
Kurdish militants tighten grip on Syria’s northeast
Kurdish militants sought to consolidate their control of an oil-producing region in northeastern Syria on Sunday after seizing a border crossing with...
Turkish forces deny entering Iraq to target PKK
Turkish warplanes struck Kurdish militant targets in northern Iraq overnight and some 500 soldiers have crossed the border, military and security sources...
PKK kills 24 Turkish troops, Ankara hits back
Turkey launched air and ground assaults on Kurdish militants in Iraq, vowing to exact "great revenge" after 24 Turkish soldiers were killed...
Turkish military says kills 49 Kurdish militants
The Turkish military said its forces had killed 49 Kurdish militants in the southeast over the last two days, during an offensive...
Kurdish militants kill four in southeast Turkey
Turkish war planes launched fresh strikes on Kurdish guerrilla positions in northern Iraq yesterday while in southeast Turkey, Kurdish militants killed two...
Iraqi tourists flock to Kurdish region for fun, safety
Shan Abdullah Ahmed travels to Arbil in northern Iraq at least once a month so her teenage daughter can shop for the...
