Hundreds of houses are peppered with bullet holes in Diyarbakir, where the Kurdish PKK, or Workers’ Party, are fighting the Turkish government Robert Fisk in Diyarbakir @indyvoices All day and all night, the big white trucks roar along the muddy road inside the black, volcanic walls of Diyarbakir. They enter […]
UK,Thursday 06 October 2016 Video:Plans to launch a final assault on Mosul, the biggest city held by the so-called Islamic State, risk being undermined by Iraq’s Kurds, who have told Sky News they intend to keep the land they have captured. SOURCE: http://news.sky.com/video/skys-sam-kiley-reports-from-iraqi-kurdistan-10606616
Sep 25,2016 – JORDAN TIMES – Amer Al Sabaileh A new phase in the Syrian crisis was triggered by the Turkish intervention in the north of the country. While there are many reasons for this Turkish move, it very quickly ended the dream of a Kurdish state, which has been floated recently. […]
By Jareer Elass, The Arab Weekly | Sept. 12, 2016 The agreement to resume exporting Kirkuk crude through the KRG-operated pipeline came after the appointment of a new Iraqi oil minister and a visit by KRG Prime Minister Nechirvan Barzani to Baghdad to meet with Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi, […]
Reuters International SEP 9, 2016 – Riot police detain a demonstrator during a protest against the suspension of teachers from classrooms over alleged links with Kurdish militants, in the southeastern city of Diyarbakir, Turkey, September 9, 2016. REUTERS/Sertac Kayar (reuters_tickers) By Umit Ozdal DIYARBAKIR (Reuters) – Turkish police detained dozens […]
NAGEHAN ALÇI@Nagehanalci PublishedAugust 26, 2016 Great efforts are being made to destabilize Turkey. In one sense, these are endeavors made by various terrorist organizations and international powers supporting them to turn Turkey into the new Syria. DAESH, the PKK and the Gülenist Terror Group (FETÖ) are attacking from every side […]
Turkey last Wednesday initiated the Euphrates Shield military operation aimed at creating a safe zone from DAESH incursions in northern Syria, from the Euphrates River to Afrin, currently in the hands of the PKK terrorist group’s Syrian wing, the People’s Protection Units (YPG). Since that day, Turkey-backed Free Syrian Army […]
There are no ‘good guys’ among the Syrian warlords yet, despite all the evidence, we want to find them. It’s time to stop lying to the people of the Middle East […]
Jul 05,2016 -JORDAN TIMES – OSAMA AL SHARIF Turkey’s about-face in its regional and international politics has come as a shock for some, and as proof that President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is capable of embracing a pragmatic approach on challenging issues, for others. In the past few weeks Ankara has […]
By Reuters – Jun 16,2016 – JORDAN TIMES In this February11, file photo, school boys play in a street in Aleppo, Syria. After four years of grinding battles, Aleppo divided residents face a common fear as the prospect of a total siege looms. Syria’s largest city used to be […]
Sat June 18, 2016 By Hassan Lasjerdi June 18, 2016 As Iraqi forces along Popular Mobilization Forces also known as al-Hashd al-Shaabi are engaged in fierce clash with the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL/Daesh) terrorist group and have so far been able to deal major blows to […]
MAKHMOUR, IRAQ | BY STEPHEN KALIN Towering over his Kurdish partner at a checkpoint in northern Iraq, U.S. volunteer John Cole cuts an unusual figure on the road to the newest front in the war against Islamic State. Seven feet (2.1 meters) tall and holding his assault rifle upside down, […]
Apr 24,2016 – JORDAN TIMES – MARK LEONARD We have entered the age of migration. If all the people who live outside the country of their birth united to form their own — a republic of the rootless — it would be the fifth-largest country in the world, with a […]
Interview Conducted by Maximilian Popp AFP A bombed out building in Diyarbakir, a Kurdish city in southeastern Turkey. Kurdish opposition leader Selahattin Demirtas, 43, says that his HDP party wants a cease-fire in the ongoing battle between Turkish troops and Kurds in southeastern Turkey. But, he says, Turkish President Erdogan […]
If the semi-autonomous government goes bankrupt, the war against the caliphate could go belly-up. Iraqi Kurdistan’s fight against ISIS has for many Kurds been an existential battle central to their survival and that of their autonomous region in Iraq. However, with ISIS prevented from embarking upon Kurdistan’s major towns and […]
Mar 24,2016 – JORDAN TIMES – RAMI G. KHOURI The complex situation across all of Syria has become ever more challenging with the recent announcement by major Kurdish parties that they are moving ahead with a plan to unite several disconnected areas across all of northern Syria into a semi-autonomous […]
Mar 20,2016 – JORDAN TIMES – EDITORIAL The March 17 decision of Kurds in the north of Syria to vote in favour of autonomy for their areas can only complicate the already complex process intended to end the five-year-old civil war in the country and then, hopefully, usher in a […]
By Reuters – Mar 06,2016 – JORDAN TIMES – AMMAN — The United States has nearly finished setting up an air base in Kurdish-controlled northern Syria and was proceeding with the construction of a second base for dual military and civilian use, a Kurdish website said on Sunday. The […]
By Reuters – Feb 16,2016 – JORDAN TIMES People and Civil Defence members carry a dead body removed from a destroyed Medecins Sans Frontieres-supported hospital hit by missiles in Maarat Numan, Syria, on Tuesday (Reuters photo) ISTANBUL/ANKARA — Turkey is asking allies including the United States to take part […]
By Katrin Kuntz, Onur Burçak Belli and Emin Oezmen (photos) Emin Ozmen/ DER SPIEGEL The civil war is escalating in southeastern Turkey, with the government pledging to stamp out militant Kurds. Young Kurds, who used to hurl stones and Molotov cocktails, are now fighting on the front lines in several […]