Putin and Erdogan are filling the vacuum created by departing US troops after Trump abruptly decided to abandon the US’s long-time Kurdish allies in Northern Syria. Those troops leaving Syria are heading to Iraq but now Iraqi authorities are saying – in contradiction to Defense Secretary..…
US military forces have transferred more than 1,500 female members of Daesh Takfiri terrorist group from Syria to neighboring Iraq in the wake of ground by Turkish troops and their allied militants against Kurdish forces in northeastern Syria.. ..…
The rise of Kurdish Iraq tolerated by Turkey at first supported by Ankara on the condition that militant groups were banned in the area, fueled the hope that settlement would be reached.. ..…
The Syrian Kurds believed in their dream to form their own state because the partition of Iraq and Syria seemed likely to them. Had this happened, northern Iraq would have been the eastern part of the Kurdish state and Rojava (NES) its western part. . ..…
The Kurdish fight against Islamic State . Archival images of Kurdish involvement in the campaign against Islamic State in Iraq and Syria. . 21 Oct 2019 . . . ... The Kurdish fight against Islamic State . Archival images of Kurdish involvement in the campaign..…
The statement by Iraqi military, however, said that all American troops that withdrew from Syria have permission to Iraq's Kurdish region, and then from there to be relocated out of Iraq... ... The pullout abandons Syrian Kurdish allies who have fought Islamic State..…