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Iraqi army helicopter takes off at a base in Sinjar, Iraq, Tuesday, May 3, 2022. 

Iraq’s Yazidis stuck in ‘tug-of-war’ between regional armed groups

Violence

Recent fighting between the Iraqi army and a local militia in heavily populated civilian areas has led to the displacement of an estimated 10,000 people. 

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‘All of us have been arrested at least once’: Kurdish press in Turkey walk a fine line

Media
Syria

Can Turkey resettle 1 million Syrians in an 18-mile wide ‘safe zone’?

US President Donald Trump is shown walking on a grassy lawn with a dark overcoat on.

Trump threatens Turkey with economic devastation if it attacks Syrian Kurd militia

Global Politics
President Donald Trump is shown walking with Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan with his right hand raised waving at the camera.

Syrian surprise: How Trump’s phone call changed the war

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

Turkey’s president claims the press has more freedom in Turkey than anywhere else. That doesn’t jibe with what’s happened to Fréderike Geerdink ever since the anti-terrorism police arrived at her door.

Doctor Samet Menguc, Secretary General of the Istanbul Chamber of Medicine, reads a press statement decrying the Turkish government's inaction over the plight of Kobane. About two thousand people marched in Istanbul - one of several rallies across the cou

Iraqi peshmerga finally enter Kobane, but Turkey’s Kurds still hold their government accountable

Conflict

Turkey has given in to international pressure and allowed Iraqi peshmerga, as the Kurdish fighting force is known, into Kobane, Syria. But Kurds in Turkey say they’re still not happy with the way they’re being treated by the ruling AK Party, headed by President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan.

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A veteran from Wisconsin explains why he joined the fight against ISIS

Conflict

Jordan Matson, from Racine, Wisconsin, was once a soldier in the US Army. Today Matson is a volunteer fighter with a Kurdish militia in northern Syria, fighting against ISIS and hoping to bring more Americans over to join the war.

Kurdish protesters set fire to a barricade blocking the street as they clash with riot police in Diyarbakir, Turkey, on October 7, 2014.

‘The Kurds have no friends but the mountains’

Conflict

With Kurdish fighters in the city of Kobane trapped between ISIS attacks and Turkish indifference, anger inside Turkey is building. Nineteen Kurdish protesters were killed overnight, and it looks like Kobane may still surrender to ISIS despite US airstrikes.

Turkish tanks taking up position on the Turkish-Syrian border on September 29, 2014, after stray fire landed on Turkish territory. Turkey is concentrating forces along the border ahead of a parliamentary debate on authorizing military intervention in Syri

Turkey prepares to make a military move into Syria, but NATO needs convincing

Conflict

The Turkish government has asked parliament to authorize military action in Syria and Iraq, hoping to provide safe spaces for Kurds and keeping them on their side of the Turkey-Syria border. But Turkey’s NATO allies aren’t convinced the intervention is a good idea.