Tag: Kurdish
Turkey promises ‘safe zones’ in Kurdish-held parts of Syria
ISTANBUL: Turkey said Sunday it would take steps to create "safe zones" across northern Syria, including in areas held by Syrian Kurdish fighters who...
Iran executes three Kurdish prisoners accused of militant attacks
GENEVA: Iran executed three Iranian Kurdish men accused of belonging to a militant group and taking part in attacks against civilians and security forces...
Turkey says reports of Kurdish militia withdrawal from Manbij ‘exaggerated’
ANKARA: A source at Turkey's Foreign Ministry on Monday dismissed a militia report that Kurdish YPG fighters had completely left Syria's Manbij region as...
Trump, like Obama, lies to Turkey about Kurdish forces, says Erdogan
ANKARA: Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan accused former US President Donald Trump and his predecessor Barrack Obama of not fulfilling the promise they'd made to...
Outrage at mutilation of Kurdish female fighter
AFRIN: Global condemnation has erupted after videos posted online revealed the mutilation of a body belonging to a female member of the Kurdish Women’s...
Turkey kills at least 260 Kurdish, IS fighters in Afrin offensive: military
ANKARA: Turkey has killed at least 260 Syrian Kurdish fighters and Islamic State militants in its four-day-old offensive into the Kurdish-dominated Afrin region of...
Turkish forces take control of 11 Kurdish positions
AFRIN: Turkish troops have taken control of 11 Kurdish positions and created "safe zones" in neighbouring Syria's northwestern region of Afrin, according to Turkish...
Turkish forces push into Syria, Kurdish militia repulsed attacks
AZAZ: Turkish ground forces pushed into northern Syria’s Afrin province on Sunday, the army said, after Turkey launched artillery and air strikes on a...
Hundreds of ISIS fighters, including Pakistanis, fled Raqqa under secret deal:...
LONDON: Hundreds of Islamic State fighters, including Pakistanis and Europeans, and their families escaped from terrorist group’s former stronghold of Raqqa in Syria as part of...
Kurdish rebels clash near Turkey-Iraq border killing 13
Turkey's military says eight Turkish security force members and five Kurdish militants were killed in a clash near Turkey's border with northern Iraq.
A military...
British man charged with being IS member, Kurdish officials say
A 21-year-old man from Oxford has been charged with being a member of so-called Islamic State, officials from the Kurdish region of Syria have...
Iraqi Kurdish leaders offer to freeze outcome of independence vote
Iraqi Kurdish leaders offered on Wednesday to freeze the outcome of last month's vote for independence, taking a step back in a major crisis...
Iraqi forces take control of Kurdish-held areas in Mosul’s Niveveh’s province
BAGHDAD: The areas were evacuated by Kurdish Peshmerga fighters before the arrival of the Iraqi forces on Tuesday, the statement said. The Peshmerga had...
Iraqi Kurdish leader Talabani’s body flown back to home city Sulaimaniya...
ERBIL, Iraq: The body of Kurdish leader and ex-Iraqi president Jalal Talabani arrived on Friday in Sulaimaniya, his home city in northern Iraq, from...
Israel endorses independent Kurdish state
Israel supports the establishment of a Kurdish state, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Wednesday, as Kurds in Iraq gear up for a referendum...
Female Iraqi journalist killed in Mosul offensive
A female reporter working for Iraqi Kurdish channel Rudaw was killed by the explosion of a roadside bomb Saturday during fighting between government forces...
Trump Fish: Iraqi restaurant spells out Kurdish faith in president-elect
The newest enterprise bearing Donald Trump’s name is not a five-star hotel or an exclusive golf club. It is a restaurant in northern Iraq...
