Oliver Hall, 24, who travelled to Syria last August, is believed to have been clearing mines with the Kurdish YPG... READ MORE›
Of course, they have never been fighting against the Syrian government forces... READ MORE›
Former soldier Joe Robinson was arrested while on holiday in July after spending a month in Syria with Kurdish militia in 2015... READ MORE›
Officials in Iran say the deathtoll in the country's deadliest earthquake in more than decade will rise as rescuers continue to search for people trapped... READ MORE›
Iran's state-run IRNA news agency reported the new death toll Tuesday and said 7,460 people were injured... READ MORE›
The 7.3 magnitude quake on Sunday hit the Iraqi town of Halabjah, southeast of Sulaymaniyah, a city in the semi-autonomous Kurdish region of northern Iraq... READ MORE›
The rescue operations in the western Kermanshah province have ended, Pir-Hossein Kolivand, head of Iran's Emergency Medical Services, said on state TV on Tuesday... READ MORE›
The head of Iranian Red Crescent said more than 70,000 people were in need of emergency shelter... READ MORE›
In 2003, a 6.6 magnitude earthquake flattened the historic city of Bam in southeastern Iran, killing some 26,000 people... READ MORE›
In 1990, a 7.4-magnitude quake near the Caspian sea in northern Iran killed 40,000 people and left 300,000 more injured and half a million homeless... READ MORE›
At least 129 people were killed in Iran's Kermanshah province on the Iraqi border, the provincial deputy governortold state television... READ MORE›
Earlier this week IS's last urban bastion in eastern Syria, Deir al-Zour, hard up against the Iraqi border, fell to Assad government forces... READ MORE›
Love not war forced outcast unwed Iraqi couple to smuggle their way to France as migrants... READ MORE›
Iraqi forces began moving on Qaim, a town that borders Syria's eastern Deir al-Zour province... READ MORE›
Instead, Abadi won the backing of Iraq's neighbors and the United States, who all decried the Kurds' effort and stressed their support for Iraq's territorial unity... READ MORE›
Far from the Washington murmurs about his future, U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson traveled to two of America's enduring war zones Monday, prodding le... READ MORE›
The Kurds say the referendum acknowledges their contribution in confronting Islamic State after it overwhelmed the Iraqi army... READ MORE›
The Iraqi PM earlier said the operation was aimed at protecting the unity of Iraq following Kurdistan's independence vote... READ MORE›
Kimmie Taylor sits at the top of an open concrete staircase gazing at the sun as it sets over Isis-held Raqqa city, cigarette between her fingers... READ MORE›
Iraqi government forces enter disputed city of Kirkuk, residents say, weeks after Kurdish independence referendum... READ MORE›
Iraq's Interior Ministry said in a brief statement that federal forces have taken control of a power plant, a police station and industrial areas near Kirkuk... READ MORE›
Iran closed its three official crossings with the Kurdish region Sunday, Kurdish media reported... READ MORE›
Move comes after Kurdish authorities said they feared Iraqi forces were preparing to launch an assault on the region... READ MORE›
Iraq's prime minister Haidar al-Abadi demanded the Kurdish self-government annul the results and called for joint administration over Kirkuk... READ MORE›
In the last week following the Kurdish referendum, Turkey has held joint military exercises with Iraq... READ MORE›
In the last week following the Kurdish referendum, Turkey has held joint military exercises with Iraq... READ MORE›
Among thousands of civilians fleeing to Kirkuk after an Iraqi offensive are hundreds of Islamic State fighters. Many claim they were noncombatants... READ MORE›
Hassan Nasrallah described Kurdish referendum last week as part of an American-Israeli plot to carve up the Middle East... READ MORE›
The United States does not recognize the Kurdistan Regional Government's unilateral referendum held on Monday, he said in a statement... READ MORE›
The Iranian and Iraqi armies will hold joint drills at several crossings on Iran's border with the autonomous Iraqi region of Kurdistan, according to officials... READ MORE›
Eventually the time came for him to cross two short miles on the Aegean Sea Istanbul There are no beaches in Kobani just bombs... READ MORE›
Iraqi Kurdish oil is exported through Turkey and its southern Ceyhan port, a key economic lifeline for the region... READ MORE›
Aid agencies estimate that, in August, around 2,000 people attempted the tricky crossing to Greece's eastern islands every day... READ MORE›
We were terrified said the father Abdullah Kurdi 40 a Syrian Kurd from the town of Kobani near the Turkish border... READ MORE›
OPINION Regional implications of the Kurdish independence vote Earlier on Saturday, Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yildirim blasted the referendum as adventurism that puts Turkey at risk... READ MORE›
He is travelling with his brother Walid who operated a concrete-mixer truck in Idlib Walid's wife and two young children and several other friends and relatives... READ MORE›
A florist and an American University graduate didn't intend to fight, but they were sent into battle against the Islamic State in Syria... READ MORE›
People in the cities of Sanandaj, Baneh and Saghez of Kurdistan province held peaceful gatherings congratulating their Iraqi fellow Kurdish-speaking people, broadcaster IRIB reported... READ MORE›
The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights has reported that warplanes have carried out repeated strikes in recent nights around Kobani... READ MORE›
Joe Robinson arrested on holiday in Turkey accused of posting photos on Facebook wearing Kurdish militia uniform... READ MORE›
All three countries have been conducting military exercises near the border of Iraqi Kurdistan this week... READ MORE›
Us-led air strikes hit is on syria's border with turkey... READ MORE›
Yesterday night we reported that UK Prime Minister David Cameron is planning to announce that the UK will take up to 10,000 Syrian refugees... READ MORE›
Antonio Pampliega, JosA C Manuel LA?pez and A?ngel Sastre were last heard from on 12 July in Aleppo, says Spanish Federation of Journalists... READ MORE›
For the latter, Turkish President Recep Tayip Erdogan simply must go before he leads Turkey further into destruction... READ MORE›
Abdel Hamid said that despite the air blockade, the land border between Iran and Iraq's Kurdish region remains open... READ MORE›
When Turkish authorities blocked access to several Islamic news websites last week, Islamic State sympathizers in Turkey threatened to carry out an unspecified retaliation... READ MORE›
What is your reaction to the Syrian air strikes and the raids in Turkey?... READ MORE›
Iraq's Transport Ministry ordered international airlines to halt service to Erbil, the Kurdish regional capital, and Sulaimaniyah, its second city... READ MORE›
Kurdish regional president vows talks after referendum, but Baghdad says it will not accept disintegration of Iraq... READ MORE›
Surviving family members of Aylan Kurdi have revealed how the Syrian three-year-old came to be washed up dead on a beach in Turkey... READ MORE›
Turkey, Iran and the Shia-dominated government of Iraq have a common interest in repressing Kurdish hopes for independence... READ MORE›
Islamic state steps up attack on syrian town of kobane... READ MORE›
This is the biggest refugee population from a single conflict in a generation Antonio Guterres the United Nations high commissioner for refugees said in a statement... READ MORE›
Kurdi family had escaped Damascas and headed to Aleppo before moving to Kobani when fighting broke out... READ MORE›
Meawwhile a newborn boy was found dead after his migrant parents reached the shores of another Greek island in a boat from Turkey on Saturday... READ MORE›
READ MORE Kirkuk votes to take part in Kurdish independence poll Ownership of Kirkuk has long been disputed between Iraq and the Kurdish authorities... READ MORE›
There, thousands of Iranian Kurds, jubilant for their Iraqi kin, staged demonstrations in support of the vote... READ MORE›
He only wanted to go to Europe for the sake of his children, said Suleiman Kurdi, an uncle of the grieving father... READ MORE›
But on Monday a Defense Department official said the United States did not believe the statement... READ MORE›
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