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US offers up to $5 mln reward for information on PKK members
The United States on Tuesday offered rewards for information on three senior members of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), which has ... World News -
Amid renewed tension, US forces patrol Syria’s northeast near Turkish border
US forces on Sunday patrolled an area in northeastern Syria bordering Turkey after renewed tensions between Ankara and Syrian Kurds, a spokesman and ... Middle East -
Hundreds of Kurdish fighters arrive in eastern Syria to help fight ISIS
Hundreds of Kurdish fighters have arrived in eastern Syria to help a US-backed alliance fight ISIS after a major setback last week, a monitor said ... Middle East -
Turkish military says kills seven Kurdish militants in northern Iraq
The Turkish military killed seven Kurdish militants in air strikes in neighboring northern Iraq on Tuesday as they were preparing to launch an attack ... Middle East -
Syria parents spurn Kurd schools over university fears
After carefully packing her schoolbag, seven-year-old Rasha scrambles into the van that shuttles her daily from her home in a Kurdish-held ... Reports -
ISIS repels US-backed forces from east Syria holdout
ISIS has ousted a US-backed coalition of Kurdish and Arab forces from its holdout in eastern Syria, killing dozens of fighters, a monitoring group ... Middle East -
Kurds of Iraq: The fidgety compass swings again
I do not think that any one of the Kurds expected at that time that the international community could turn so generous toward them. The coalition ... Middle East -
Turkey renews mandate for military actions against Kurds in Syria, Iraq
Turkey’s parliament has voted to extend by another year a mandate that allows the military to intervene in Iraq and Syria when faced with ... Middle East -
Iraq parliament delays vote for country’s president
Iraq’s parliament postponed a vote on Monday to name a president because the main Kurdish parties, who were supposed to present a candidate, ... Middle East -
Kurdish PUK party says it will not recognize poll result
One of the dominant Kurdish parties in northern Iraq said it would not recognize the results of Sunday’s parliamentary election, injecting ... Middle East -
IN PICTURES: Iraq’s Kurds hold elections for regional parliament
Iraq’s self-ruled Kurdish region is holding parliamentary elections a year after a vote for independence sparked a punishing backlash from ... Middle East -
The Iranian ‘surgeon’ is also ill
This month saw two events related to the Iranian “prestige”. On September 8, Iranian missiles rained down on the headquarters of the ... Middle East -
Syria Kurds hand over alleged female ISIS member to Sudan
Syria’s Kurds said they handed over a Sudanese woman accused of belonging to the ISIS extremist group and her baby to a Sudanese diplomat ... Middle East -
ANALYSIS: Manifestations of a desperate Iranian regime
The Iranian regime hanged three Kurdish activists when it rained missiles in Iraqi Kurdistan. Ramin Hossein Panahi and cousins Zaniar Moradi and ... Features -
Iranian Kurdish shopkeepers strike against executions, missile attacks
Iranian Kurdish shopkeepers on Wednesday began state-wide strike against the executions of Kurdish activists and the bombing of opposition parties in ... Middle East -
Iraq and the fall of the tango
I telephoned the Iraqi politician and he knew the purpose. He asked me about the date of my visit and I said: “After the formation of the ... Middle East -
Ex-Kurdish party MP Leyla Birlik seeks asylum in Greece
A former lawmaker from the pro-Kurdish People’s Democratic Party has requested asylum in Greece after fleeing Turkey in violation of conditional ... World News -
Amnesty accuses Turkey of tolerating Syrian rebel abuses in Afrin
Amnesty International on Thursday accused Turkish forces of allowing Syrian armed groups to commit major rights abuses in the northern region of Afrin ... Middle East -
Muqtada al-Sadr and the future of Iraq
The Iraqi elections in May have been marred with corruption, theft, fraud and mass abstentions by honorable Iraqis looking to not participate in the ... Middle East -
Syrian Democratic Council agrees with Assad regime to ‘chart a roadmap’
The Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Council (SDC) announced that it has agreed with the Syrian regime to form joint committees and negotiate ... Middle East -
Syrian Kurdish-backed council holds talks in Damascus for the first time
A top Syrian Kurdish official is in Damascus this week for talks with Syrian government officials at the head of a delegation including members of the ... Middle East -
Militias, crumbling institutions and the idea of Iraq as a model
Iraq is at a dead end. What confirms this is a very simple question that has emerged these days as the popular protests which erupted in Basra have ... Middle East -
Erbil’s women-only restaurant making girls feel comfortable
At Luxury Time, a restaurant in the Kurdish city of Erbil, there are no man-size portions. The women-only restaurant, with its all-female staff, was ... Travel and Tourism -
Kurdish militants kill 11 Iran Guards at Iraqi border post
Militants killed 11 Iranian Revolutionary Guards in an attack on a post on the Iraqi border on Saturday, Iran's semi-official Tasnim news agency ... Middle East -
What lies beneath the historic deal between Kurds and Syrian regime?
In a new development, Ilham Ehmed the Co-chair of Syrian Democratic Council, the political wing of the Kurdish-led forces backed by the US in Raqqa, ... Middle East -
Last Kurdish forces leave Syria’s Manbij, allied fighters say
The last members of a Kurdish militia pulled out on Sunday from the Syrian town of Manbij, allied Arab fighters said, under a deal reached to avoid ... Middle East -
Turkey says reports of Kurdish militia withdrawal from Manbij ‘exaggerated’
Reports that Syrian Kurdish YPG fighters have withdrawn from Syria’s Manbij region are exaggerated, state news agency Anadolu said on Monday, ... Middle East -
Samira: A Yazidi survivor tells her accounts of ISIS atrocities in Iraq
Since the entrance of ISIS into Sinjar which is the stronghold of the Yazidi people in northern Iraq in August 2014, and until June of 2018, official ... Features -
Corruption in Iraq erodes its core
Commenting on the scandal over the leaked questions of the Islamic studies exam for the secondary level in Iraq, my friend Kamran Karadaghi said: ... Middle East -
Turkish military patrols outskirts of Kurdish-militia dominated Syrian city
In corporation with US troops, Turkish armed forces have begun patrolling the Kurdish-held city of Manbij in northern Syria on Monday, in ... Middle East