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Why the Iraqi Kurds need air defenses

Providing Iraq’s air defenses, or having the US deploy air defenses at selective sites, is not likely the best answer. The ...
ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - Hundreds of Kurdish Peshmerga forces assigned to joint brigades with the Iraqi Army have been ...
STORY: Thousands of Islamic State fighters are held inside this heavily fortified prison guarded by Kurdish forces in northeastern Syria. The Syrian Democratic Forces, a U.S.-backed group that holds a ...
A Turkish parliamentary delegation has held talks with Abdullah Ocalan, the jailed leader of the Kurdistan Workers' Party, or PKK, as part of a peace initiative to end a decades-long conflict.
Iraqi Kurdistan-based General Yazdanpanah says calls for “decentralization are meaningless, as they will not ensure Kurdish ...
Whatever air defense the U.S. or other allies provide Iraqi Kurdistan to help it fend off these attacks, it will be better ...
For Israel, Kurdistan is part of its security, not a side cause. Kurdish regions in Syria, Iraq and Iran lie across the land ...
(Bloomberg) -- Turkey-backed forces are aiming to capture more territory in northern Syria from Kurdish groups, according to Turkish officials familiar with the matter, a move that could stir tensions ...
HASSAKEH, Syria(AP) — The Syrian government and the main Kurdish-led force in the country’s northeast have agreed in principle on a plan to merge the U.S.-backed force as a cohesive group into the ...
QAMISHLI, Syria — Kurdish-led fighters in Syria, known as the Syrian Democratic Forces, said Tuesday they have launched a counter-offensive against the Turkish-backed Syrian National Army to take back ...
ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - Kurdish farmers in a town north of Kirkuk province said Sunday that they are being told to sign a pledge they suspect could undermine their land ownership, in exchange for ...