Furthermore, due to frequent desertions and detention of hundreds of hardcore militants alongside thousands of Arab villagers held captive by Kurds northeastern Syria, the number of fighters within Islamic State's ranks has dwindled. ..…
Turkish President Erdoğan Northern Syria Suitable For Arabs, Not Kurds, Because Those Areas 'Are Desert Regions. ..…
In 1962, after Syria was declared an Arab republic, a large number of Kurds were stripped of their citizenship and declared aliens, which made it impossible for them to get an education, jobs, or any public benefits. ... When the uprising against Bashar al Assad began as part of the..…
In 2014, The Civil Democratic Gathering of Syrian Kurds said that the steadfastness of the people of Ayn al- Arab in the face of terrorists was form of expression of Syrian Kurds commitment to their affiliation to their homeland of Syria. ..…
In Episode 41 of the CounterVortex podcast, that Turkish Syria holds the risk of Arab- Kurdish war. But he recalls the in 2014 when Kurds and Free Syrian Army were united in common front against Assad and ISIS. ..…
Lavrov blamed United States and Western nations for undermining Syrian state, saying this pushed Kurds toward separatism and confrontation with Arab tribes... ..…
Kurds fighting alongside several Arab militias under the banner of Syrian Democratic Forces alliance, and helped by US-led coalition air strikes, weapons and advisers then drove IS out of tens of thousands of square kilometres of territory in north-eastern Syria and established control..…
No more can Assad countenance allowing Kurds their full democratic, cultural and national aspirations realised.. So far, Erdogan is concentrating on seizing Syrian-Arab towns and is in phone talks with Russian, Vladimir Putin, negotiating the future of majority- Kurdish areas.. ..…
Later, that Washington wo not take sides in the conflict between Turkey and Kurds in Arab country, ordering evacuation of the remaining US troops from Northern Syria.. ..…
Israelis joined Iranian-led in 1964, after Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion recognized Kurds as strategic ally against Arab Baghdad. ..…
Kurds are non-Arab ethnic group of between 25 and 35 million people spread across Iran, Iraq, Syria and Turkey and without state of their own.. ... In Iraq, Kurds were persecuted under Sunni Arab-dominated of Saddam Hussein and rose up after Iraq's defeat in Gulf War.. ..…
Erdogan plans the displacement of many tens of thousands of Kurds and the ethnic engineering of Syrian Arab against Kurdish state.. ... Turkish and the imposition of mainly Syrian Arab refugees into Kurdish areas of Syrian is recipe for new bloody and conflict. ..…
The no-fly zone imposed on Iraq ostensibly to protect Kurds did not parallel the demarcation between Arab and Kurdish-populated areas and was used as excuse to continue low-level bombing campaign of Iraq despite Baghdad government not breaching the airspace. ..…
Kurds and their Arab allies waged war to rid the world of this menace. Instead of thanking Kurds and their allies, we are now going to witness their in the hands of Turkish army. ..…
The British and French agreed to send troops to Syria, and there are unconfirmed reports of troops from Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates arriving. . ... “will devastate Turkey economically if they hit Kurds.” . In addition to the threat to U.S. troops, our allies and persecuted..…
They first met at Moria Refugee camp, and parted ways May 2018 during the conflicts between Kurds and Arab residents of the camp. ..…
., Arab) sentiment.” . In 1973, Syrian authorities confiscated 750 square kilometers of fertile agricultural land cultivated by tens of thousands of Kurds and gave it to Arab families brought in from other provinces. ... If your “revolutionary” solution to Israeli chauvinism..…
TEHRAN - The attempts taken by United States to resettle Kurds in the regions inhabited by Arab tribes might cause Syria's breakup, on Wednesday after talks with Iranian Mohammad Javad Zarif... The US attempts to resettle Kurds in the areas where Arab tribes have always..…
We have Arab allies. A third of Syrian territory is under our control. This area has its own distinct identity with Arabs, Kurds and Circassians, etc. ..…
Having retrained Iraqi Army and Kurds, and having armed Saudis and other Gulf Arab states with the latest and greatest weapons, American strategists concerned about China and the return of power politics have in believing that Middle Eastern regimes they are leaving behind can fend for..…
The world is celebrating the victory of Kurds along with their allied Arab, Assyrian Syrian and Christian militias over IS was announced on March 23. ..…
War Against Terrorism was accepted by us all, overlooking that the discourse considers every and each Muslim, be Arab or Ajam, Kurd or Turk, Shia or Sunni terrorist. ..…
Unlike their Iranian co-religionists, Iraq’s Shiite community lacked the active participation of other sections of society, including other groups such as the Kurds or Arab Sunnis. ..…
The shah agreed to withdraw support for Kurds in exchange for Saddam giving up Iraqi water, and moving the border along the Shatt al- Arab, river between Iran and Iraq, favor of Iran... ..…
He courted the Kurds by granting small reforms and avoiding bombing Kurdish areas in order to sever unity between Arabs and Kurds. At the same time, some aspects of the Syrian opposition, particularly the Syrian National Council, adhered to Arab chauvinism and refused to support Kurdish..…
Kurds will never grant full autonomy to Arab city councils, thereby guaranteeing Turkish angst, and Syrian government, backed by Russia and Iran, has insisted on the return of all Syrian territory to its control. ..…
The ethnic and sectarian conflict in Syria and Iraq is a three-way conflict between the Sunni Arab militants, the Shi’a-led governments and the Kurds. ... Therefore, Washington was left with no other choice but to make the Kurds the centerpiece of its policy in Syria after a..…
USA works military especially through Israel, Saudi Arabia and Egypt, and with cooperation also Iraq and with Kurds Iraq and Syria, and the United Arab Emirates. ..…
group of Assyrian Christian soldiers just outside their headquarters somewhere Syria President Donald Trump's plan to withdraw U.S troops from Syria will have dire consequences for tens of thousands of Assyrian and Kurdish Christians in the northeast, self-administered part of Middle Eastern nation, .. ..…
By attacking Sinjar, ISIS won recruits among Arab tribes in the 'disputed territories, and went to war with Kurds, opening yet another costly front.. ..…
Meanwhile, director of Izadi Affairs at Ministry of Endowment and Religious Affairs of the Kurdistan Region, Khairi Bouzani, said on Thursday that around 90,000 Izadis out of a total of 550,000 had emigrated from Iraq to Europe in the wake of Daesh atrocities in the Arab country. . Bouzani said..…
He further warned the Kurds in the north of Syria against cooperation with the US government, adding that “the US is getting behind the Kurds not because it respects, for a second, the Kurdish aspirations for having their own homeland; but because they think they can temporarily make use of the..…
The campaign was later expanded to cover areas Syria despite criticism from Syrian that the attacks violate the sovereignty of Arab country.. The United States claims the attacks are carried out to help Syrian Kurds and Arabs fighting against Daesh in areas along Turkish in the province..…
In announcing the operation, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan referred to YPG as a horde of murderers and claimed that Afrin is Arab Sunni area colonized by Kurds. ..…
The Iraqi Kurdish people, in their ongoing fight to become nation, must learn from the similar history of suffering and persecution experienced by Jews argued Kurdish in opinion article Monday.. ..…
Christian Assyrian forces launched counterattack against Kurdish police Asayish Syria's Qamishli.. ..…
Supported by coalition planes, the American-backed anti- ISIS alliance of Syrian Kurds and Arab rebel groups, known made important gains against the in the half of 2015, threatening to cut off its last direct access to Turkish border and hampering its ability to attract foreign recruits. ..…
At the time, one characteristic of Iraq is that it has cut across the sectarian divide between Shiites and Sunnis, between Arabs, Kurds and Turkmens. Arab Revolution has revived Iran, where officers in Revolutionary Guard have are not prepared to fire on the people and warned Basij to..…
BAGHDAD -- Iraqi lawmakers Wednesday overcame months of infighting to pass law setting the stage for provincial elections by early next year, achievement sought by United States to correct lopsided power structures blamed for violence. ..…
Marines and Iraqis al-Anbar, bomber struck Iraq and car bomb exploded Baghdad near restaurant. ..…
The Kurds are currently allied with Shiite Arab religious parties of southern Iraq who control politics in Arabic-speaking 80 percent of Iraq, and even if that alliance broke Shiites could not take back the north. ..…