Of all the stories to hit the news cycle, other than the up-and-down roller coaster ride that was the 2016 presidential cycle between President-Elect Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton, isn’t the mostly-untold story of the Kurds and Kurdistan something worth telling? This from NRA News and NRA TV on YouTube from last year, but has anything […]
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560 additional Americans will be sent to help bolster the Kurds in retaking Mosul from the Islamic State, making a total of 4,647 soldiers in Iraq. Who made the announcement? Obama’s defense secretary Ash Carter.
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It’s worth a read: GWER, Iraq—First you notice the sound of jet engines. The sky is overcast, so you can’t see the coalition warplanes. But you can hear them. And you know what the snarl of jet noise and the occasional thud of an airstrike symbolizes for the Islamic State fighters about a mile away. […]
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A video exclusively obtained by The Guardian showed the firefight where a Navy SEAL would eventually lose his life while aiding the Kurdish peshmerga.
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No name has been released to the public, but the U.S. service member was killed when a Kurdish peshmerga position was overrun by ISIS forces. Photo by Secretary of Defense
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From the Free Beacon: A fierce battle between Kurdish forces and Turkmen Shia fighters in the northern Iraqi city of Tuz-Khurmatu threatens to subvert the pro-forma alliance of an Iran-backed Shia militia and Kurds against ISIS troops just a few kilometers away. The mountainous region near Iraq’s northeastern border with Iran has been a bone […]
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It’s tough to fight a war against an enemy when your soldiers . Photo by Kurdishstruggle
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Tragic event in Ankara, Turkey: Turkey carried out airstrikes against Kurdish rebel targets in northern Iraq Monday in retaliation for a car bomb attack in Ankara that killed at least 37 people and injured 122 others. The state-run Anadolu Agency said nine F-16s and two F-4 jets raided 18 positions of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party, or […]
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Impressive: Following an ISIS chemical weapons attack involving the use of chlorine mortar shells Feb. 11 near Sinjar Mountain in Iraq, a dozen seriously wounded Kurdish soldiers were assessed and bundled off on ambulances to a field hospital that had been set up a few days earlier by American volunteers working shoulder to shoulder with the […]
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Fox News reported: A Kurdish militant group has claimed responsibility for a car bomb attack in the Turkish capital Ankara which killed 28 people. In a statement posted on its website, the Kurdistan Freedom Falcons, said Friday it carried out the attack to avenge Turkish military operations against Kurdish rebels in southeast Turkey. The Turkey-based […]
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7/12/2016 - Obama to Deploy More American Soldiers to Iraq
5/10/2016 - Front Line Report from Daily Signal: Kurdish Peshmerga vs. ISIS
5/6/2016 - Footage of Firefight against ISIS that led to Navy SEAL’s Death while Aiding Kurds
5/3/2016 - U.S. Military Advisor Dies in ISIS Attack
4/28/2016 - Kurds Fight Iran-Backed Militia in Iraq and Besiege Town
4/18/2016 - Peshmerga Troops Haven’t Been Paid in 3 Months while Fighting ISIS
3/14/2016 - Turkey Attacks Kurdish Rebels after Deadly Car Bombing in Ankara
2/23/2016 - Americans are Volunteering to Help the Kurds against ISIS
2/20/2016 - Kurdish Group Claimed Responsibility for Ankara Attack
2/15/2016 - Stop Killing Kurdish Allies, says U.S. to Turkish Gov’t
2/9/2016 - Former ISIS Sex Slaves Now are Training to Defeat ISIS
12/31/2015 - ISIS Bombs Restaurant in Syria
12/18/2015 - Kurdish Peshmerga Forces Rout ISIS in Iraq
11/12/2015 - Kurds Take the Offensive to ISIS in Key Iraqi Town
10/31/2015 - Boots on the Ground: Obama Deploys US Special Forces in Syria
10/27/2015 - WATCH: Video of Raid on ISIS Prison Emerges
9/10/2015 - Kurds vs. Turkey Fighting could Undermine ISIS Fight
8/14/2015 - ISIS may have Used Chemical Weapons on Kurdish Fighters
6/18/2015 - VIDEO: White House Blames Iraq for the Rise of ISIS
2/25/2015 - ISIS Terrorists Kidnap between 70-100 Christians in Syria
2/20/2015 - CNN calls out Obama’s Leak of Anti-ISIS Efforts with Kurds
2/5/2015 - Ex-US Army Soldier talks about Joining Kurdish Militia
2/3/2015 - Kobane Success is Hard to Replicate against ISIS
1/27/2015 - Kurds push ISIS out of Kobane, claim Major Victory
12/13/2014 - No Boots on the Ground? Allies promise 1,500 training troops to help Kurds, Iraqis against ISIS
10/23/2014 - ISIS shelling hits Turkey, U.S. airstrikes to help Kurds in Kobani
10/17/2014 - Turkey Starting to Unravel as U.S. Airstrikes Ramp Up
10/6/2014 - Turkey ready to fight back as ISIS reaches their border
9/22/2014 - U.S. looking for Sunni Allies in Iraq
9/7/2014 - Islamic State helping Egyptian Extremists to Fight the Army
8/30/2014 - Iraq’s New Prime Minister is Optimistic about Country’s Future
8/10/2014 - Islamist Militants Seize Territory close to Kurdistan
7/12/2014 - Iraqi General Killed Outside Baghdad as Iraqi Parliament Delays Session Amid Civil War
6/27/2014 - Bluffing? John Kerry Promises U.S. Support in Iraq
6/12/2014 - Chaos in Iraq as al-Qaeda Militants Seize Major Cities and Towns
11/16/2013 - Syria Opposition: Assad must Go!
10/31/2013 - Kurds take control of Northeastern Syria
9/30/2013 - Iraq: Kurdish City Bombed as Violence Spikes
8/30/2013 - Iraq: More al-Qaeda Bomb Attacks kill 71
