A court in the Netherlands on Thursday sentenced a Dutch Kurd who in 2016 served as a volunteer for the People’s Protection Units’ (YPG) in Syria to 240 hours of community service and a six-month suspended sentence. Keep Reading
“Yes, they have lost much of their leadership. They have lost many of their capable men.But they’ve also managed to gain more experience and to recruit more people around them." Keep Reading
The Kurdistan Region’s Peshmerga and Kurdish security forces (Asayish) launched a massive military operation at dawn on Sunday to pursue sleeper cells of the so-called Islamic State in the region bordering the southern Garmiyan area. Keep Reading
Brothers were kidnapped near Nalashkena village in the Nawjul area of Tuz Khurmatu while they were on their way back to their home in Kifri, in the Garmiyan region. Keep Reading
Enright was the most unlikely of soldiers, pinned down there alongside his Kurdish and expat militia brothers, dodging bullets, blasting away with his Kalashnikov. Keep Reading
The pamphlet calls on civilians that work with “infidels” and the local councils or administrations “to repent or face the consequences.” Keep Reading
"Following clashes, three [ISIS] fighters blew themselves up." Iraqi media reported that six Islamic State fighters had been involved in the exchange. Keep Reading