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Daily Herald
February 15, 2018
To recapture oil fields lost in the war, forces backed by Assad crossed the Euphrates into territory taken from ISIS by the U.S. and our Kurd allies. The U.S. response was a barrage of air and artillery strikes that killed 100 soldiers. What this signals is that, though ISIS has been all but evicted from Syria, theÃÂ ...
New York Times
February 5, 2018
Those are some of the low points of two new videos of what appear to be Turkish-backed fighters abusing the mutilated body of a Kurdish fighter. The videos, which were posted on Saturday by the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, have caused an unusual uproar in a war in which hard-to-watchÃÂ ...
New York Times
January 31, 2018
The conflict between Turkey and the Kurds has escalated since Turkey started a military offensive against the Syrian Kurdish enclave of Afrin on Jan. 20. The Kurdish militia, the People's Protection Units, which is the United States-led coalition's top partner in the fight against the Islamic State, controls Afrin.
The Guardian
January 27, 2018
In Iran, the Kurdish people of the west have suffered significant persecution at the hands of the Islamic republic, while in Iraq, the Kurds of the north were confronted with a well-organised military operation. They also faced a diplomatic initiative that illustrated that, even in the fractious world of Middle EastÃÂ ...
Washington Examiner
January 22, 2018
After a multi-day artillery barrage, the Turkish Army has begun its push into Afrin, a district of Syria which has been governed by Syrian Kurds ever since they defeated al Qaeda and Islamic State terrorists. Turkish officials say they plan to set up a buffer zone extending almost 20 miles into Syria from theÃÂ ...
Bangor Daily News
January 22, 2018
Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is an angry man at the best of times, but on Monday he outdid himself: “This is what we have to say to all our allies: don't get in between us and terrorist organisations, or we will not be responsible for the unwanted consequences.” That was a barely veiled threatÃÂ ...
Lompoc Record
January 21, 2018
President Erdogan just threatened to crush the "terror army" - what he calls the American-armed and supported Kurdish troops assembling on Turkey's Syrian border - by putting the developing 30,000 Kurd anti-ISIS force directly in Ankara's crosshairs. Erdogan promised to "strangle" this U.S.-backed forceÃÂ ...
The Guardian
September 30, 2017
It may be the case that Masoud Barzani, veteran leader of the Kurdish enclave in northern Iraq, is a foolish dreamer whose desire to bequeath a personal legacy has trumped common sense. It is conceivable that, had Barzani backed down, the government in Baghdad would have abandoned decades ofÃÂ ...
The Guardian
September 22, 2017
The rest of Iraq, the US, Iran, Turkey, Saudi Arabia, the UK, the EU and the Arab League all oppose the vote thanks to concerns ranging from Kurdish secessionism within their own borders and the furthering of ethnic divisions to the immense dangers it poses in a perilously unstable region – particularlyÃÂ ...
Rudaw
November 5, 2017
Valls told Rudaw in an interview that the Kurds have been allies of the West and ... Manuel Valls: In my opinion, the participation and actions of ...
Rudaw
November 4, 2017
Year after arrests, Turkey pro-Kurd party weakened but defiant ... Opinion polls -- to be treated with caution in Turkey -- suggest it is currently ...
CNN
October 24, 2017
(CNN) Two weeks ago, one of Iraq's top security officials asked a trusted Kurdish intermediary to deliver a message to Massoud Barzani, ...
Vox
October 20, 2017
The Kurds want Kirkuk to be part of a future independent state of Kurdistan, controlled from its ... Here's the thing: It was only an opinion poll.
New York Times
October 13, 2017
BAGHDAD — Kurdish and Iraqi officials rushed Friday to calm fears of impending military action around the contested city of Kirkuk.
Aljazeera.com
October 7, 2017
So far, Israel has been the only state to support the Kurdish secession from Iraq, even celebrating the outcome of the September 25 referendum ...
New York Times
October 6, 2017
Pesh merga troops near an image of Jalal Talabani, a Kurd and former Iraqi ... Washington's opinion of Mr. Hussein changed, of course.
The Mercury
December 31, 1999
Following the first Gulf War in 1991, the U.S. enforced a no-fly zone over the Iraqi Kurds' enclave in northeastern Iraq to protect them from ...
Al-Monitor
December 31, 1999
A general view of Kurdish parliamentarians sitting during a session of ... My personal opinion is that the current government should resign ...
New York Times
September 10, 2017
Men bought and sold prayer beads last month in front of the citadel in Erbil, a Unesco World Heritage site, in the Iraqi Kurdistan region.
Chicago Tribune
September 1, 2017
In Syria, a U.S.-backed coalition of Syrian Kurd and Syrian Arab fighters is making headway against Islamic State militants battling to defendÃÂ ...
Pravda
September 1, 2017
In my opinion, the process of the formation of the Kurdish State is irreversible because of the energy of this very specific and unique people.
POLITICO Magazine
September 1, 2017
On September 25, the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) in Iraq will hold a referendum to become an independent country. Iraqi KurdistanÃÂ ...
New York Times
August 31, 2017
Hamdi Ulukaya is a Kurd born in Turkey who now runs the most popular Greek yogurt company in America. The point is that everything greatÃÂ ...
NRT
August 29, 2017
Why weren't Yezidis' opinion considered in the survey report? ... The Kurdistan government and every Kurd in the region obstinately insist thatÃÂ ...
Rudaw
August 18, 2017
In our world of nation-states, it's perfectly fine to be a proud Irish, French, Dutch, Turk, Arab, Kurd or Russian. For Americans who lost links toÃÂ ...
Al-Monitor
August 12, 2017
Iraq's Kurdistan Region President Massoud Barzani (C) sits during his ..... autonomy or independence...will happen in my opinion for all KurdsÃÂ ...
Rudaw
August 1, 2017
How they got their homeland back can help Kurds get ours. ... that might remind one of a young Kurd's love for his girlfriend and Kurdistan.
Pravda
July 31, 2017
However, the clashes of Erdogan with the west in general and America in particular, mainly in relation to the support of the Kurds by the latter,ÃÂ ...
Al-Monitor
July 28, 2017
Summary⎙ Print The secessionist wing in Iraqi Kurdistan is working on using demands .... You are shia , so your opinion is irrelevant here .
Rudaw
July 24, 2017
Shaswar Qadir, a self made Kurdish businessman and owner of the ... The Washington Post ran an opinion piece about the referendum,ÃÂ ...
Pravda
July 22, 2017
The Kurds do the same to their neighbors in Syria under the mask of being some weird hybrid the US calls a "moderate terrorist", but beingÃÂ ...
Rudaw
July 22, 2017
The American and Kurdish flags woven together with roses at an American independence day event in the Kurdistan Region on July 4, 2017.
Kurdistan24
July 21, 2017
He said there were obstacles facing the Kurdistan Region in term of its domestic politics, but what mattered in his opinion was the Kurdish unityÃÂ ...
TotalPolitics.com
July 20, 2017
With the madness and sheer chaos of the political climate across the world you often wonder is there even a need for satire in 2017. Anytime IÃÂ ...
gulfnews.com
July 19, 2017
Iran and Turkey are, for obvious reasons, opposed to the long-cherished Kurdish move towards independence. Ali Shamkhani, the Secretary ofÃÂ ...
New York Times
June 6, 2017
A member of the Kurdish People's Protection Units, known as the Y.P.G., ... The P.K.K., a Marxist-leaning Kurdish nationalist organization, wasÃÂ ...
The Guardian
May 12, 2017
Kurdish fighters from the YPG – the Peoples' Protection Units – guard a convoy of US military vehicles in the Syrian town of Darbasiya, near theÃÂ ...
The Atlantic
December 10, 2013
Muslims, whether Turk or Arab or Kurd, shared with the imperial government ..... Hafez al-Assad made two attempts to cater to Muslim opinion.
Newsweek
December 31, 1999
“We believe in God first, Trump second,” says a Christian man in Ainkawa, Erbil, in the Kurdish region of northern Iraq. “You hear it said oftenÃÂ ...
Haaretz
December 31, 1999
All are trying, in some cases using threats, to stop the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG), the semi-autonomous administration of theÃÂ ...
Rudaw
December 31, 1999
'Ribwar' is a Jewish Kurd living in Tel Aviv, Israel. A friend of several years, we met recently at the Grand Istanbul Hotel in Erbil. As we sat in theÃÂ ...
Rudaw
December 31, 1999
“I support independence as a Kurd, because our people dream of freedom. It is time to unite Kurdistan around our shared culture, our sharedÃÂ ...
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