Yazidis

A total of 947 People’s Protection Units (YPG) and Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) militants have been “neutralized” since the launch of “Operation Olive Branch” in Syria’s Afrin district, the military said on Feb. 5.

Turkey’s ongoing military operation in Syria's Afrin serves to liberate the oppressed people in the region, Prime Minister Binali Yıldırım said on Feb. 3. 

Two Turkish soldiers were killed on Feb. 2 in YPG attacks in Syria’s Afrin and southern province of Kilis, Turkish Armed Forces said.

The Islamic State (IS) terrorists made her a sex slave. She was not alone……there were hundreds of thousands of women who were kidnapped by the terrorists. Members of the terror outfit, reportedly, are still using them as sex slaves in Iraq and Syria.

Joanna Palani is a 23-year-old politics student from Denmark. She also happens to have a $1 million bounty on her head. Why? Because believe it or not, Joanna is thought to have killed over 100 ISIS militants while fighting alongside the Kurdish Peshmerga in Iraq and Syria.

As Massoud Barzani, the president of the Iraqi Kurdistan Region, continues to resist mounting international calls to scrap a referendum on Kurdish independence planned for September, a rival Kurdish faction has added its voice, declaring what it calls “democratic autonomy” in the predominantly Yazidi region of Sinjar.

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"Kurdish independence is on a trajectory," wherein it's not a question of whether the Kurds will form an independent state, but a question of how soon, Defense Intelligence Agency Director Gen. Vincent Stewart told lawmakers on Tuesday.

The relationship between the United States and the Syrian Kurdish People's Protection Units (YPG) is a temporary, transactional and tactical one, a U.S. State Department official has said amid Turkey's vociferous opposition to the ties.

The next stages of the recently concluded Euphrates Shield Operation will be broader, President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said April 5, suggesting that Turkey would move on areas in Iraq.

Speaking in a joint interview with NTV and Star, Erdoğan described the Euphrates Shield Operation as the first stage of Turkey's counter-terrorism road map, saying expanded stages would follow.        

Rival Kurdish groups, the Peshmerga Rojava and a local affiliate of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), engaged in deadly clashes in Iraq's northwestern Sinjar region on March 3, two Kurdish security sources said.