YASAR YAKIS June 14, 2021 01:1371 Short Url https://arab.news/g8gd2 A minor military clash that took place on June 5 between the Peshmerga — the military forces of the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) […]
At one time the caliphate ruled territory with a population of five or six million people, where it sought to establish a truly Islamic State. It is this dream – or nightmare – that is now being shattered. But the groups who fought Isis may soon be fighting each other Patrick […]
By AP – Dec 05,2016 – JORDAN TIMES Iraqis who fled the fighting between Iraqi security forces and the Daesh terror group militants settle at a camp for internally displaced people in Khazir, near Mosul, Iraq, on Monday (AFP photo) KHAZIR, Iraq — The UN refugee agency distributed […]
Nov 17,2016 – JORDAN TIMES Army medics and volunteers attend to a patient suffering from injuries at an Iraqi Special Forces 2nd Division open air field clinic in the Samah neighbourhood of Mosul onThursday (AFP photo) MOSUL — Layers of hastily erected barricades built from rubble and twisted […]
Reuters International NOV 16, 2016 – www.swissinfo.ch A woman holds her child as she crosses from the Islamic State fighters-controlled part of Mosul into the Iraqi special forces soldiers-controlled part of Mosul, Iraq. REUTERS/Goran Tomasevic (reuters_tickers) By Ahmed Rasheed, John Davison and Dominic Evans BAGHDAD/BASHIQA, Iraq (Reuters) – Iraqi Shi’ite militias […]
There is support, but a lot of the time it’s delayed,’ says one general Loveday Morris, Thomas Gibbons-Neff Kanhash @lovedayM Saturday 22 October 2016 families wait to receive food supplies at a processing centre for displaced people In Qayyara, south of Mosul REUTERS Iraqi and Kurdish forces, who have relied […]
By Rudaw Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi (right) meeting with US Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter in Baghdad on Saturday. Photo from AP video. ERBIL, Kurdistan Region – Iraq has declined Turkey’s offer of assistance in the offensive to liberate Mosul from ISIS rule. “I know that the Turks want […]
15 Oct 2016 WRITER: AFP ARBIL (IRAQ) – Iraqi Kurdish leader Massud Barzani said Saturday that preparations for the operation to retake Mosul from jihadists have been completed and it is time for the battle to begin. Massud Barzani (centre) says it is time for the battle for Mosul 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, […]
Severing the Islamic State’s Supply Lines Analysis NOVEMBER 12, 2015 | 19:41 GMT Print Analysis Editor’s Note: Stratfor closely monitors conflict zones from a geopolitical perspective. What is perhaps the most volatile conflict today can be found in the territories of Iraq and Syria that are controlled by the Islamic State. […]
By AFP – Nov 12,2015 – JORDAN TIMES Heavy smoke billows during an operation by Iraqi Kurdish forces backed by US-led strikes in the northern Iraqi town of Sinjar on Thursday, to retake the town from the Daesh group and cut a key supply line to Syria (AFP photo) MOUNT […]
Reuters International NOV 12, 2015 – 09:53 By Isabel Coles NEAR SINJAR TOWN, Iraq (Reuters) – Backed by U.S. air strikes, Kurdish forces said they captured several villages in an offensive on Thursday to retake the Iraqi town of Sinjar from Islamic State militants who overran it more than a […]
By Denise Natali APRIL 22, 2015 Kurdish Peshmerga forces celebrate on the eve of Newroz Day, a festival marking their spring and the Persian New Year, in Kirkuk on March 20, 2015. (Ako Rasheed / Reuters) Within Iraq and Syria, the U.S.-led campaign against the Islamic State(ISIS) relies heavily on […]
By Denise Natali APRIL 22, 2015 Kurdish Peshmerga forces celebrate on the eve of Newroz Day, a festival marking their spring and the Persian New Year, in Kirkuk on March 20, 2015. (Ako Rasheed / Reuters) Within Iraq and Syria, the U.S.-led campaign against the Islamic State(ISIS) relies heavily on […]
Kurdish militia fighters took back control of the town from the jihadist group Islamic State (IS) on 26 January. Hundreds of Kurds died in the fighting and more than 1,000 IS fighters perished, activists say. An initial assessment of the satellite pictures by the UN’s Operational Satellite Applications Programme (Unosat) […]
AFP | Jan 28, 2015 | JORDAN TIMES KOBANI, Syria — Pulverised buildings, heavily armed fighters roaming otherwise deserted rubble-strewn streets: the ferocious battle for Kobani has left the Syrian […]
Foreigners fighting Islamic State in Syria: who and why? Reuters By Benedetta Argentieri DERIK, Syria (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – While illegally crossing the Iraqi-Syrian border, Canadian Peter Douglas was adamant that his incursion was for humanitarian reasons – to help the people of Syria. Douglas is one of a growing […]
NAHYAT AL-AYADHIYA, Iraq: Kurdish forces pressed their biggest offensive against the Islamic State group so far on Friday, buoyed by US reports that IS supremo, Abu Bakr Al-Baghdadi’s top aide in Iraq has been killed. Kurdish peshmerga forces were securing the surroundings of Mount Sinjar after breaking a months-old siege […]
By Ralf Hoppe, Maximilian Popp, Christoph Reuter and Jonathan Stock SPIEGEL.DE The headquarters of one the world’s mightiest terrorist organization is located in the mountains northeast of Erbil, Iraq. Or […]
BEIRUT: A Kurdish woman fighter is leading the battle against Islamic State militants in the Syrian battleground town of Kobani, a monitoring group and activists said Sunday. “Mayssa Abdo, known […]