The Islamic State prisoner issue is tied into larger fears of a revival by the group, which at its peak controlled huge swaths of Iraq and Syria. ... The Kurdish-held Islamic State fighters include about 9,000 members from Syria and Iraq. ..…
Kurdish Syria is small portion of territory, known as Kurdistan, that includes parts of Turkey, Syria, Iraq and Iran. ..…
Kurdish, of which there are several distinct dialects (Kurmanji, spoken mainly in Turkey, is the largest, followed by Suleimani, in Iraq), is correspondingly northwestern Iranian too. ... In Iraq, the late and unlamented Saddam Hussein killed tens of thousands of Kurdish..…
They fear that Kurdish struggle will become inspiration for Kurds of Iraq, Iran and Turkey and for all the other oppressed peoples of Middle East. ... appeal must be made for mobilisation of Kurdish masses Turkey, Iraq and Iran call for mass demonstrations and strikes..…
After trying unsuccessfully to start a counter-ISIS force of local fighters in Syria and Iraq from scratch, the U.S. military backed the mainly-Kurdish SDF in the fight against ISIS in Syria beginning in 2016. ..…
Pelosi said in a statement that Trump's decision is 'a deeply disturbing development that betrays our Kurdish allies' who have been Washington's closest allies on the ground in fight against the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (known as ISIL, ISIS or Daesh). . ..…
Ahmed Tabaqchali, a Senior Fellow at the Institute of Regional and International Studies at the American University of Iraq notes that during the 1990s, as the Hussein regime increasingly turned the suppression of Shi’a and Kurdish groups, Iran positioned itself as a powerful ally of these..…
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