Tag: Iraq
TURKEY has been accused of intimidating and interrogating Kurdish villagers in the border area of Iraq, blocking farmers from their land and handing them over to mercenaries. Agricultural workers have spoken of their arrest by ...
RUMOURS that de facto Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) leader Cemil Bayik was killed by a Turkish air strike in Iraq on Tuesday night were dismissed today as state propaganda. Reports carried on various news wires and in ...
Turkey is taking its decades-old conflict with Kurdish militants deep into northern Iraq, establishing military bases and deploying armed military drones against the fighters in their mountain strongholds. The cross-border campaign has attracted less attention ...
Turkey’s Defense Ministry said Wednesday that it had launched a military operation against Kurdish rebels in northern Iraq, after carrying out a series of airstrikes. “Our heroic commandos are in Haftanin,” the ministry said in ...
Saddam chose the name “Anfal” for a genocidal attack on Iraqi Kurds that he launched in 1986 and continued until 1989. The name for this massacre, which reached its peak in 1988, was taken from a ...
The Arab League met on November 19, 2017 in the Egyptian capital, Cairo. The Baghdad Summit is scheduled to take place on April 20th with several Middle Eastern countries set to participate in this conference ...
(International Christian Concern) – On Tuesday, April 9, villagers fled as the Turkish military launched yet another series of airstrikes in the Kurdistan Region. The chain of attacks was launched in claims of targeting the ...
It’s easy to dismiss the recent Turkish uproar over a Joe Biden video as political theater. The video, from a conversation between the Democratic presidential candidate and the New York Times editorial board, is eight ...