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the kurds were essential to finding the leader of the islamic state.

By October 2014, three years into Syria’s civil war, the Islamic State had seized territory the size of Britain straddling the Syria-Iraq border. ..

jews of kurdistan: 10 facts

One of Jewish scholars from Kurdish lands was woman named Asnat Barazani, in present Iraq, in the 1600s. In the Century CE, some Jews fled violent Crusaders Syria and the Land of Israel, finding refuge among Jewish communities of Kurdistan. ..

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