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US forces, accompanied by Kurdish People’s Protection Units fighters, drive their armored vehicles near the northern Syrian village of Darbasiyah, on the border with Turkey on April 28, 2017. (AFP)

Erdogan to Protest US-Kurdish Patrols in Syrian Border to Trump

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...

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In this July 29, 2015 file photo, a Turkish Air Force warplane rises in the sky after taking off from Incirlik Air Base, in Adana, southern Turkey. AP

Ankara on Sinjar Raids: We Informed Washington, Moscow

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...

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Turkish warplanes strike Kurdish militants in Iraq and Syria. (Reuters)

Turkey Strikes PKK Targets in Iraq’s Sinjar, Syria’s Northeast

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...

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Sinjar, Reuters

Kurdish Rivals Clash in Sinjar, Iraq

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...

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In this file photo taken Wednesday, Oct. 8, 2014, a 15-year-old Yazidi girl captured by the Islamic State group and forcibly married to a militant in Syria sits on the floor of a one-room house she now shares with her family after escaping in early August, while speaking in an interview with The Associated Press in Maqluba, a hamlet near the Kurdish city of Dahuk, 260 miles (430 kilometers) northwest of Baghdad, Iraq. (AP Photo/Dalton Bennett)

Girls tried to commit suicide: Former ISIS captive

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...