The Kurdish fight against Islamic State . Archival images of Kurdish involvement in the campaign against Islamic State in Iraq and Syria. . 15 Oct 2019 . . . . . ... The Kurdish fight against Islamic State . Archival images of Kurdish involvement..…
As the main U.S. military partner in the fight against the Islamic State in Syria, the SDF—a multiethnic but largely Syrian Kurdish militia—lost more than 11,000 of its fighters over almost five years of combat. ..…
Image copyrightAFP Image caption Iraqi Kurdish Peshmerga fighters have been fighting IS militants in northern Iraq In mid-2013, the jihadist group Islamic State (IS) turned its sights on three Kurdish enclaves that bordered territory under its control in northern Syria. ..…
Kurdish allies in Syria and Iraqi forces hold hundreds of European children born of Islamic State fighters. ..…
Turkey’s Syrian militia allies, involving reactionary Islamic fighters, are accused of carrying out summary executions, including the killing of a female Kurdish political leader. ..…
This move potentially enables a resurgence of Islamic State as Turkey prepares military assault against Kurdish fighters who helped U.S battle the Islamic State. ..…
Pence said Trump spoke to Turkish Recep Tayyip Erdogan, which in 2015 witnessed Islamic State group's first defeat in battle by U.S.-backed Kurdish fighters... Erdogan defended Turkey's in in Wall Street Journal, calling on the community to support Turkey's effort to create what it calls..…
The Syrian Civil War and the rise of the Islamic State saw the arming of several ethnic and religious groups, including a Syrian Kurdish group known as Kurdish People’s Protection Unit. ... The Islamic State might also profit from the instability, since Kurdish-led..…
It remains unclear what will become of the more than 10,000 former Islamic State fighters held in Kurdish-run prisons, as well as the tens of thousands of women and children from Islamic State now detained in squalid camps. . ..…