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Kurdish women pedal, dunk, spike as Iraq’s top athletes

When Iraq's female cycling team snatched bronze and silver medals at a landmark pan-Arab race, it was thanks to athletes from the autonomous Kurdish...

Kurdish refugee wins ‘Nobel of mathematics’ Fields medal

Kurdish refugee turned Cambridge University math professor Caucher Birkar was among four winners of the prestigious Fields prize, dubbed the Nobel for mathematics.

Iraqi forces, Kurdish Peshmerga agree on ceasefire, US-led coalition says

BAGHDAD: Iraqi forces and Kurdish Peshmerga fighters reached an agreement on Friday to stop fighting in northern Iraq, the media office of the US-led...

Islamic State’s Baghdadi almost certainly alive: Kurdish security official

SULAIMANIA, Iraq: A top Kurdish counter-terrorism official said on Monday he was 99 percent sure that Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi was alive...

US Marines deploy artillery battery to Syria

WASHINGTON: The United States has sent a Marine Corps artillery battery into Syria to help defeat the Islamic State group in Raqa, the capital...

Anti-Islamic State assaults gain ground in Iraq and Syria

MOSUL, IRAQ: Iraqi forces advanced in west Mosul and fighters in neighbouring Syria seized a key supply route to Raqa Monday, as twin US-backed...

Eight killed, over 100 wounded by PKK bombing Turkey’s southeast: PM

DIYARBAKIR: Eight people were killed, including two police, and over 100 wounded in a car bombing by Kurdish militants in the southeastern Turkish city of...

Turkey police detain co-leaders of main pro-Kurdish party

ISTANBUL: Turkish police on Friday detained the two co-leaders of the country's main pro-Kurdish party, the Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP), as part of a...

Islamic State drone kills Kurdish fighters, hurts French troops

WASHINGTON: A remote-controlled jihadist hobby plane rigged with hidden explosives killed two Kurdish fighters and injured two French special operations troops near Mosul, French...

How far to go? Photographers divided over graphic war snaps

BAYEUX: How far to go in terms of gore and shock value when covering conflict? Capturing violence on camera was hotly debated on the fringes...

US-backed Syria alliance pushes into IS border hub

BEIRUT: US-backed Syrian fighters pushed further into the Islamic State group stronghold of Manbij on Saturday, seizing a key road junction and grain silos overlooking the city, a monitoring group said.

Kurdish forces say Islamic State defeated in Iraq’s Sinjar

SINJAR TOWN: Kurdish forces said they had secured strategic facilities in the northern Iraqi town of Sinjar on Friday as part of an offensive against Islamic State militants that could provide critical momentum in efforts to defeat the jihadist group.

Turkish jets hit Kurdish militant camps in Iraq, at least 55 killed: sources

DIYARBAKIR, TURKEY: At least 55 militants were killed when Turkish warplanes hit Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) camps in northern Iraq overnight, security sources said on Saturday, as Ankara shows no sign of easing up strikes on insurgents ahead of a Nov. 1 election.

Turkish court arrests British journalists on ‘Islamic State terror’ charges

DIYARBAKIR: A court in Turkey's Kurdish-dominated southeast on Monday remanded in custody two British journalists working for US-based media outlet Vice News on terror charges, in a case that has sparked fresh concern about press freedom.

Car bomb kills three outside U.S. consulate in Iraq’s Kurdish capital

ERBIL: A car bombing claimed by the Islamic State killed three people on Friday outside the U.S. consulate in Erbil, in a relatively rare attack in the capital of Iraq's Kurdistan region.

U.S.-led jets strike Islamic State in northeast Syria: monitor

BEIRUT: U.S.-led jets have struck Islamic State positions in northeast Syria in an area where the militants have been battling Kurdish forces, a group monitoring the war said on Saturday.

Top Iraq Kurd officer among six killed in IS attack

KIRKUK: The Islamic State jihadist group killed a senior Kurdish commander and five fighters Friday in a major attack in Iraq's Kirkuk province, while bombings elsewhere left at least nine dead.

Kurds defeat Islamic State jihadists in Syria's Kobane

BEIRUT: Kurdish militia drove the Islamic State group from the Syrian town of Kobane and raised their flags on Monday, dealing the jihadists an important blow after months of heavy fighting.

Suicide car bomb hits Iraqi Kurdish capital

BAGHDAD: A suicide bomber detonated an explosives-rigged vehicle in the heart of the usually secure Iraqi Kurdish regional capital Arbil on Wednesday, a spokesman said.

Obama to send 1,500 more troops to Iraq as campaign expands

WASHINGTON:  President Barack Obama has approved sending up to 1,500 more troops to Iraq, roughly doubling the number of U.S. forces on the ground helping Iraqi and Kurdish forces battle the militant group Islamic State, U.S. officials said on Friday.
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