by Saeed Abdelrazek | May 1, 2017 | Middle East
Ankara – Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan lamented on Sunday the US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces patrols that were deployed along the Syrian-Turkish border, saying he will protest the development to President Donald Trump during his upcoming trip to the...
by Saeed Abdelrazek, Paula Astih | Apr 27, 2017 | Middle East
Ankara, Beirut- Ankara announced that it had informed Washington and Moscow before launching strikes against Kurdistan Workers’ Party and People’s Protection Units in northern Iraq’s Mount Sinjar and areas in northeastern Syria. Ankara criticized the visit...
by Asharq Al-Awsat English | Apr 25, 2017 | Middle East
The Turkish army carried out strikes against Kurdish militants in Iraq’s Sinjar region and northeastern Syria on Tuesday. The strikes in Iraq targeted the outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) and those in Syria targeted the YPG – a key component of the Syrian...
by Dalshad Abdullah | Mar 4, 2017 | Middle East
Mosul – Clashes between Peshmerga forces and the Sinjar Protection Units erupted near Sinjar, a town in Iraqi Kurdistan, local Kurdish sources reported. Iraqi Kurdistan Region President Masoud Barzani, belonging to the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP), is known...
by Dalshad Abdullah | Dec 28, 2014 | Features
Erbil, Asharq Al-Awsat—Following an Amnesty International report that women and girls of Iraq’s Yazidi minority forced into sexual slavery by the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) have committed suicide or tried to, Asharq Al-Awsat spoke with a Yazidi girl who...
