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Los Angeles Times
March 12, 2018
Tensions took on new life last September when Kurds held a referendum calling for independence. And when the Iraqi army swept into Kirkuk, the Turkmens kicked the Kurdish peshmerga out of Tuz Khurmatu and took charge of the city's administration — a change that people like Abbass Maarouf,Ãâà...
Al-Monitor
March 12, 2018
The practice of TV confessions has been happening in Iraq for decades, and the regime of Saddam Hussein used this method repeatedly against its enemies, including the Kurds. Many Kurdish government officials old enough to remember Saddam's brutal rule recognize the similarity of the methods theÃâà...
Iraqi News
March 12, 2018
The battles resumed after PKK accused Ankara of failure of protecting Kurds following an Islamic State attack that killed 32 Kurds at a town near the borders with Syria. Turkey's military interventions in Iraq and Syria has partially been driven by anxiousness to curb the influence of Kurdish militias thought toÃâà...
New York Times
March 11, 2018
Kurdish aspirations will also come up against an implacable Turkey, which regards a self-governing Kurdish region across its southern border, and ... Arab, as the Kurds have expanded their writ in the north and the Islamic State has been reduced to small pockets mostly near the Iraqi border in the south.
CBC.ca
March 9, 2018
"There is a scope for doing more in Iraq and training Iraqi forces," Pavel told CBC News, "and as I discussed with General Vance, Canada is ready to ... will be headquartered in Baghdad, but some elements are expected to operate in Erbil, the capital of the semi-autonomous Kurdish region in northern Iraq.
Hurriyet Daily News
March 9, 2018
With its political leadership based in Syria, the PKK established its military headquarters in the Kandil Mountains of Iraq, in the Kurdish-majority region on the ... Despite the fact that the PKK's strategy demanded “independence from four states,” the Syrian and Iraqi authorities welcomed the group as it wasÃâà...
Kurdistan24
March 9, 2018
Kurds in Syrian Kurdistan (Rojava) currently control large swaths of territory which they've liberated from the Islamic State (IS) over the past few years. Its troops, the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), spearheaded by the Kurdish People's Protection Units (YPG), are supported by the US and the Global Coalition against IS.
Al-Monitor
March 9, 2018
In addition, the budget did not include allocations to the Iraqi Kurdistan peshmerga or Iraq's Popular Mobilization Units (PMU), which some critics said was unfair ... The Kurdish blocs plan to meet with Iraqi President Fuad Masum to discuss how the budget has worsened the situation between the BaghdadÃâà...
Iraqi News
March 6, 2018
Baghdad (IraqiNews.com) The German cabinet will vote Wednesday on whether to continue the training of Iraqi and Kurdish troops as part of the fight against Islamic State militants. German network ARD said the mandate subject to the vote involves the German air force's participation in the anti-ISÃâà...
VICE News
February 16, 2018
Until then, the Kurds had enjoyed strong military support from Canada and other Western allies. When ISIS first seized large swaths of territory in Iraq in 2014 and 2015, the Iraqi Army crumbled, with huge numbers of Iraqi troops deserting. The Kurdish Peshmerga, the military of the semi-autonomousÃâà...
Aljazeera.com
February 9, 2018
Iraqi forces say they're making advances in their operation to secure northern areas near the border with Iran. They are fighting a mainly Kurdish group called the White Banners or White Flags who are believed to be allied with ISIL. The area is a proposed truck route for oil deliveries between Iran and Iraq.
Channel NewsAsia
December 31, 1999
BAGHDAD: Iraq's parliament on Saturday (Mar 3) adopted an US$88.5 billion budget for 2018, with Kurdish lawmakers boycotting the vote to protest ... Iraqi Kurdish peshmerga forces took control of the northern province of Kirkuk, home to key oilfields, in June 2014 after federal forces withdrew in the faceÃâà...
