The Yazidi fighters that have managed to oust the Islamic State from their home in Sinjar, northern Iraq, are clamoring for help in organizing their own militia, asserting that they cannot trust Arabs or even Kurdish Muslims after the massacre the tiny religious minority endured last summer.
A crowd estimated at 2,000 turned out for the funeral of Ivana Hoffmann in Duisburg, Germany, over the weekend. Hoffmann, 19, was killed fighting ISIS in Syria as a volunteer in the Kurdish YPG force.
According to a statement from the Kurdish Regional Security Council, the Islamic State has crossed that fabled WMD “red line” by deploying chemical weapons against Kurdish peshmerga forces fighting along the Iraqi border with Syria, near the captive city of Mosul.
Former Defense Intelligence Agency Director Lt. Gen Michael Flynn (Ret.) argued that US aid to the Kurds is “too slow” on a Fox News Channel special on Saturday. “We have to rely on these guys, and they’re doing some very
The Kurdish town of Kobane opened up the first school since the town was liberated from the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) in January.
NBC News reports the latest ISIS recruitment video features “two deaf and mute fighters communicating in sign language in what analysts said was an attempt to demonstrate ‘normal’ life for everyone under the brutal terrorist group’s domination.”
Turkish newspaper Today’s Zaman reports that the government has officially confirmed that an Islamic State commander is receiving treatment for his battle wounds at the Pamukkale University Hospital.
As the elite Kurdish female forces fighting the Islamic State become increasingly well-known, nations close to the struggle have expressed increasing interest in these women. Israeli television aired a popular special this week profiling the Syrian Kurdish People’s Protection United (YPG), who are fighting the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL).
The Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) attempted to eliminate the Yazidi population in Syria and Iraq over the summer. After airstrikes pushed back the terrorist group, those who survived slowly began making their way home to identify loved ones in mass graves.
File this report from the Daily Star of Lebanon under the category of “Yay … I Guess,” or perhaps “Two and a Half Cheers.” It’s good news that Islamic State (ISIS) forces have been pushed out of over 20 Syrian villages. The bad news is that Bashar al-Assad’s regime did most of the pushing, with an assist from Kurdish militia units.
The Assyrian International News Agency reports a dash of good news from the bubbling cauldron of horror that is the Islamic State.
Kurdish authorities arrested six clerics in Erbil– an Iraqi city that has become a key safe haven for Christians and Yazidis fleeing the wrath of ISIS– on suspicion of loyalties to the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL).
Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) declared that what you say on your cell phone is “none of the government’s damn business” on Thursday’s “Hannity on the Fox News Channel. Describing his supporters, Paul said, “these kids are sort of the ‘leave me alone’
Columnist Charles Krauthammer said that President Obama’s ISIS strategy is “to keep the status quo…and hand it off to his successor” on Thursday’s “O’Reilly Factor” on the Fox News Channel. “This is an unserious campaign. I think Obama’s strategy is
Having written recently about Westerners traveling to Iraq and Syria to volunteer for duty with Kurdish units against ISIS, I was sad to see the UK Telegraph’s report that the first such volunteer has been killed in battle. He was an Australian who fought under the Kurdish name “Bagok,” and he died while serving with the YPG militia in Syria, which has a battalion of foreign fighters known as the “Lions of Rojeva.”
CNN reports on the latest ISIS propaganda video, which features 21 captured Kurdish fighters paraded through the streets of an Iraqi city (evidently near Kirkuk) in cages ominously similar to the one that held Jordanian pilot Mu’ath al-Kaseasbeh when he was burned alive.
DAQUQ, Iraq — The so-called Islamic State has recruited copious cannon fodder from around the world, along with quite a few ferocious fighters. But its toughest opponents on the ground, the Kurds of Iraq and Syria, are attracting Western ex-soldiers for their ranks who are determined to see the self-proclaimed “caliphate” not only “degraded,” as Washington puts it, but destroyed.
The UK Daily Mail reports that a young British soldier—as of yet unnamed due to concerns for his safety and not yet officially considered AWOL—has left his post in Cyprus to join up with Kurdish forces in Syria and battle ISIS.
A legislative floor debate on a controversial homeland security bill rapidly descended into chaos in Turkey late Tuesday night into early Wednesday morning, with ruling Islamist AKP party members fiercely beating opposition party members and using the ceremonial gavel to break ribs.
According to an article at the Kurdish outlet Rudaw, Peshmerga militia forces have had to turn back a high number of foreign fighters attempting to join the war on the Islamic State. Repeated attempts to discourage the foreign fighters and request arms aid instead have failed to stop the flow into Iraq.
Jordan Matson, a US veteran fighting against ISIS in Syria declared “politics is the reason that a lot of people are still dying over here” on Monday’s “Hannity” on the Fox News Channel. “Politics is the reason that a lot
Kurdish Rudaw Media Network released a video that shows Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) militants prepping a 12-year-old boy for a suicide attack.
According to comments from a U.S. Central Command official to CNN, a major ground offensive to dislodge ISIS from Mosul could be coming in April, and American ground forces could be part of it.
NBC News Chief Foreign Correspondent Richard Engel reported that both Kurdish fighters and American advisers are upset with the lack of support provided by the United States in the fight against ISIS on Friday’s “Andrea Mitchell Reports” on MSNBC. “We
The Turkish prosecutor in Diyarbakir, the symbolic capital of the Kurds, charged Dutch journalist Fréderike Geerdink with “terrorist propaganda.” She faces one to five years in prison if found guilty.
