Tag: Kurds

Kurdish soldiers with the Peshmerga keep guard near the frontline with Sunni militants on the outskirts of Kirkuk, an oil-rich Iraqi city on June 25 in Kirkuk, Iraq. (Spencer Platt/Getty Images)

National Security

U.S. military aircraft conducts first airstrike in Iraq

Susan Crabtree · August 8, 2014 2:10 pm

National Security

Kristol on Morning Joe: ISIS a ‘Strategic Threat’ in Iraq

Michael Warren · August 8, 2014 11:46 am

Kudos to the Iraqi Kurds

Stephen Schwartz · July 16, 2014 1:23 pm

People inspect the site of a car bomb attack on cars lined up at a gas station in the oil rich city of Kirkuk, in northern Iraq, Thursday, July 10, 2014. The lightning sweep by the militants over much of northern and western Iraq the past month has dramatically hiked tensions between the country's Shiite majority and Sunni minority. At the same time, splits have grown between the Shiite-led government in Baghdad and the Kurdish autonomous region in the north.(AP Photo)

Iraq’s Kurds will boycott Cabinet meetings

Qassim AbdulZahra · July 10, 2014 8:39 pm

Iraqi men check in at the main army recruiting center as they volunteer for military services in Baghdad, Iraq, Wednesday, July 9, 2014, after authorities urged Iraqis to help battle insurgents. (AP Photo/Karim Kadim)

Iraqi leader accuses Kurds of hosting militants

Ryan Lucas · July 9, 2014 8:09 pm

A woman from an elite unit of female Kurdish Peshmerga fighters trains in Sulaimaniyah, 160 miles northeast of Baghdad, Iraq, in this Thursday, July 3, 2014 photo. (AP Photo)

An independent Kurdistan: World War I continues

Austin Bay · July 9, 2014 7:09 pm

Turkey seeks to boost peace talks with Kurds

Suzan Fraser · July 8, 2014 4:43 pm

In this picture taken on Monday, June 30, 2014, a Kurdish Peshmerga fighter cleans his weapon on his position behind a dirt barrier built along the front line with militants from the al-Qaida-inspired Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), in Mariam Bek village, between the northern cities of Tikrit and Kirkuk, Iraq. Demonstrating their growing independence from the rest of Iraq, the largely-autonomous Kurdish regional government is setting up dirt barriers that they hope will ultimately set the borders of their future state. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)

Iraqi Kurds dig frontier around disputed areas

Diaa Hadid · July 1, 2014 8:07 pm

Between Iraq and a Hard Place

David DeVoss · June 30, 2014 4:00 am

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks to the media in Tel Aviv, Israel, Sunday, June 15, 2014. Netanyahu has condemned Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas' agreement with the militant group, and said he would hold him responsible for the safety of the youths, who disappeared apparently while hitchhiking in the West Bank late Thursday. (AP Photos/Dan Balilty)

Israeli leader calls for independent Kurdistan

Washington Examiner · June 29, 2014 4:00 am

Kurdish regional President Massoud Barzani, right, listens to U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry during a meeting at the presidential palace in Irbil, Iraq, Tuesday, June 24, 2014. Kerry arrived in Iraq's Kurdish region in a US diplomatic drive aimed at preventing the country from splitting apart in the face of militants pushing towards Baghdad. (AP Photo/Brendan Smialowski, Pool)

Kurdish leader cites ‘new reality’ in Iraq

LARA JAKESHAMZA HENDAWI · June 24, 2014 3:23 pm

Wars Within Wars

Jonathan Spyer · May 26, 2014 4:00 am