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Shi'ite Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF) celebrate on the outskirts of Kirkuk, Iraq

Kurds lose more than oil as they cede control of Kirkuk in Iraq

Conflict

The Kurds of northern Iraq are no longer in charge of Kirkuk, the city they protected from ISIS. Ben Van Heuvelen, editor-in-chief of Iraq Oil Report, explains what’s at stake.

Tens of thousands turn out for a rally in Erbil, northern Iraq, in support of Kurdistan's independence referendum.

Should Kurdistan break off from Iraq? We asked young voters.

Conflict
Daniel Libeskind

The Kurds have no country of their own and their story is largely untold. A planned museum in Erbil aims to change that.

Culture
Residents of Erbil buy groceries in a local market.

Just 60 miles from ISIS, youth bowl, swim, see George Clooney in ‘Tomorrowland’

Lifestyle
Dutch journalist Fréderike Geerdink has been charged by Turkey with aiding a terrorist organization.

This Dutch journalist says she is doing her job. Turkey says she is helping terrorists

Global Politics
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Fighters from the Kurdistan Workers Party, or PKK, stand in formation in northern Iraq on May 14, 2013.

The US named this Kurdish party a terrorist group — now it needs its help to fight ISIS

Conflict

The American government is close with the Kurdish peshmerga in Iraq but considers the PKK, Turkey’s main Kurdish party, a terrorist group. Now that the PKK is playing a bigger role in fighting ISIS, the US may find itself helping those “terrorists.”

Female fighters from Colonel Nahida's peshmerga battalion view the front lines with ISIS.

Meet the female colonel leading Kurdish forces into battle against ISIS

Conflict

Nahida Ahmed Rashid began her military career years ago, fighting for the Kurdish separatist cause. Now she’s the highest-ranking woman in the Kurdish peshmerga and squaring off with her troops against Islamic militants who’ve taken northern Iraq by storm.

Female fighters from Colonel Nahida's peshmerga battalion view the front lines with ISIS.

Meet the female colonel leading Kurdish forces into battle against ISIS

Conflict

Nahida Ahmed Rashid began her military career years ago, fighting for the Kurdish separatist cause. Now she’s the highest-ranking woman in the Kurdish peshmerga and squaring off with her troops against Islamic militants who’ve taken northern Iraq by storm.

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