the kurds were essential to finding the leader of the islamic state.
QAMISHLI, SYRIA — the leader of Islamic State, zoomed in on in northwestern Syria, United States turned to its local allies to help track the world's most-wanted terrorist.. ..…
QAMISHLI, SYRIA — the leader of Islamic State, zoomed in on in northwestern Syria, United States turned to its local allies to help track the world's most-wanted terrorist.. ..…
QAMISHLI, Syria — the leader of Islamic State, zoomed in on in northwestern Syria, United States turned to its local allies to help track the world's most-wanted terrorist.. ..…
Many Kurds, including the Kurdish National Council (KNC), a collection of Syrian Kurdish parties opposed to the PYD, did not want to shed Kurdish blood to liberate Arab lands. ..…
“The so-called cease-fire is not what we expected,” European Union Council President Donald Tusk told reporters. “In fact, it’s a demand of capitulation of the Kurds.” Turkey concurs. ..…
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. Higher Council of Secretaries said that the..…
“The so-called cease-fire is not what we expected,” European Union Council President Donald Tusk told reporters. “In fact, it’s a demand of capitulation of the Kurds.” Turkey concurs. ..…
President Recep Tayyip Erdogan says Turkey’s military operation in Syria’s north will only end when the Kurds leave the region and a “safe zone” is established there. . UN Security Council warns of 'risk of dispersion' of Takfiri terrorists . ..…
Approximately 1,000 American soldiers had been stationed in that region as buffer separating Kurdish forces. ..…
Iraj Masjedi, advisor to the commander of IRGC's Qods Force, said in interview that in the wake of the liberation of Fallujah, comprehensive plan was necessary that would include Iraqi, Shi'ite militias, Kurds and advisory help from Iran for liberating Nineveh Province northwestern Iraq. Ali..…
Approximately 1,000 American soldiers had been stationed in that region as buffer separating Kurdish forces. ..…
The president has been roundly criticized by Democrats and Republicans for moving U.S. troops back from northern Syria so they would not get harmed during the planned incursion against the Kurds, whom Turkey’s government see as terrorists. . ___ . 9 p.m. . ... Security Council has failed..…
., on the condition of the disarming of YPG, the total dismantling of all the autonomous structures and democratic gains that Kurds have achieved Syria. At the time, Ilham Ahmed, the co-president of the Executive Council of Rojava, has travelled to Europe, urging EU not to abandon..…
'The ISIS prisoners, some of them, will eventually be freed amongst the chaos, and remain in the area or go elsewhere to rejoin the fight,' speculated the National Security Council official. . A U.S. soldier sits atop an armored vehicle during a demonstration by Syrian Kurds against Turkish..…
the 2015 elections were boycotted by Syrian Kurds affiliated to KDP head of communications for Kurdish Future Movement and Kurdish National Council, led by Masoud Barzani, president of Kurdistan Regional Government of Iraq. ... Ishak joined Syrian National Council, it became..…
Ilham Ahmed is Kurd from Afrin and executive chair of Syrian Democratic Council, the political arm of Syrian Democratic Forces. ..…
The U.S. and Saudi Arabia are trying to form Tribal Council and also think about creating self-governing system for the Kurds in eastern Syria. ..…
That is why the Christians of the Syriac Military Council stand by the Kurds and do not entertain the notion of abandoning them. ..…
FILE PHOTO Masrour Barzani, head of Iraqi Kurdish region's Security Council, casts his vote during Kurds Erbil, Iraq September 25, 2017. ..…
It is clear that the negotiation between the Kurds and the regime are contingent on the US position. The first round of negotiations between the Syrian Democratic Council and the Syrian regime (mid-2018) followed the first US announcement of the withdrawal of its forces in early 2018. ..…
Last week, about the view of Macer Gifford, British volunteer who went to fight alongside Kurds and. The BBC reported yesterday that the foster parents of Parson's Green bomber are suing Surrey County Council for failing to warn them that the teenager placed with them had been trained to..…
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..…
“Kurdish-led council deepens authority across Syrian north and east,” , Sept. 6, 2018; Joost Hilterman, “The Kurds Once Again Face American Abandonment,” , Aug. 30, 2018. . ..…
On the one hand you have Turkish military and allied proxies on the outskirts of Manbij. ..…
Thus, it is quite easy for the fighters of the rest of Sunni Arab jihadist groups, including the Islamic State, battling the Shi’a-led government in Syria to infiltrate the Arab-led units of the Syrian Democratic Forces, specifically the Manbij Military Council. . And since the Syrian..…
Thus, it is quite easy for the fighters of the rest of Sunni Arab jihadist groups, including the Islamic State, battling the Shi’a-led government in Syria to infiltrate the Arab-led units of the Syrian Democratic Forces, specifically the Manbij Military Council. . And since the Syrian..…
Kurds are more divided than any time in the past”. Crisis Group phone interview, Ziyad al-Dalwi, former Diyala provincial council member, and a leader in the Kurdistan Islamic Union, 14 March 2018. ... Mohammed Kamal, a Kurdish provincial council member with the KDP, set the..…
US erects observation posts to avert war between Turks, Syrian Kurds . . . ... US erects observation posts to avert war between Turks, Syrian Kurds . . ..…
The end of Gulf War was messy, as Saddam managed to hang on to Iraq with brutal crackdown on Kurds in the north and Shiites in the south. Haass is president of Council on Foreign Relations and author of A World Disarray American Foreign Policy and the Crisis of Old Order... ..…
This was said by Iraqi President Barham Salih, when he received on 28 November in the Palace of Peace, the Catholic Patriarchs of the Middle East Council of Churches, meeting in Baghdad for their 26th session. . Barham Salih, himself, who belongs to the Kurd minority, told his guests of his..…
Today, the US assistance to ISIL group has enabled the latter to reach Syrian- Iraqi border once again, Muallem said at meeting with the delegation of International Federation of Democratic Youth and International Peace Council, .. Syrian minister accused United States of creating military bases..…
The terrorists executed the victims after accusing them of trying to contact Iraqi security forces via cellular phone, said the Kurdistan Region Security Council (KRSC). . New mass grave of Izadi Kurds found in Sinjar . Furthermore, Iraqi Kurdish Peshmerga fighters have found a mass grave in..…
What we are trying to do is prevent a sectarian war by sending a message to Arab Sunnis and to Kurds that Maliki does not represent the Shiites and that his mistakes are his own. . . The Sadrists and the Islamic Supreme Council of Iraq (ISCI) went so far as to threaten mass demonstrations..…
Written by Russian Timur Akhmetov, Kremlin-Turkish relations expert at Russian International Affairs Council, Rudaw report notes. Russian officials may have current dynamics within Iraq in view Kurds have expanded their control over vast swaths of territories in the fight against ISIS,..…
Masrour Barzani, chief of KRG Security Council, applauded President-elect Trump and reminded him that Kurds have been one of the staunchest supporters of United States in the fight against terrorism, reports Rudaw... ..…
The official said that though the president chose not to criticize the Obama administration's current policy or endorse the congressional proposals at the Atlantic Council event, the Kurds in Iraq would still like to see weapons shipped directly to them instead of first going through..…
Security Council — was justified by the need to implement a Security Council resolution calling for an end to the repression of Kurds. ..…
The presidency council -- whose other two members are President Jalal Talabani, Kurd, and the country's second president, Tarik al-Hashemi, Sunni -- remains committed to holding the elections by Oct., the chairman of the panel. ..…