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Kurdistan

Immigration
A new wave of Kurds fleeing Turkey bring their own sound to Nashville’s Music City
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Artillery belonging to Iraqi army are seen southwest of Kirkuk, Iraq, October 17, 2017.
Conflict
Iraq forces take oil fields dashing Kurdish dreams
Members of Iraqi federal forces drive along desert roads in Kirkuk with Iraqi flags flying.
Conflict
Iraqi forces seize territory from Kurds in independence dispute
Kurds celebrate to show their support for the upcoming independence referendum in Erbil, in nothern Iraq.
Conflict
Iraq’s Supreme Court orders suspension of Kurdish independence referendum
Children play with a kite at a shelter for displaced Yazidis on Mount Sinjar, northern Iraq.
Conflict
Years after US Iraq intervention, Yazidis are still seeking safety on a mountain
Capt. Khatoon Khider, left, commander of the all-female Yazidi Sun Brigade, with her sister, Aliya, in a home near the city of Dohuk, in Iraqi Kurdistan, on Sept. 24.
Conflict
These Yazidi sisters took up arms to take revenge against ISIS
Daniel Libeskind
Culture
The Kurds have no country of their own and their story is largely untold. A planned museum in Erbil aims to change that.
Turkish MP: Turkey Nearing Civil War
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The Save Kobani Facebook page. Facebook routinely takes down its posts.
Conflict
After battling ISIS, Kurds find new foe in Facebook
Residents of Erbil buy groceries in a local market.
Lifestyle
Just 60 miles from ISIS, youth bowl, swim, see George Clooney in ‘Tomorrowland’
Dutch journalist Fréderike Geerdink has been charged by Turkey with aiding a terrorist organization.
Global Politics
This Dutch journalist says she is doing her job. Turkey says she is helping terrorists
Dean Parker, a commercial housepainter and avid surfer from Florida, traveled to northern Iraq to fight with the Kurdish Peshmerga against ISIS.
Conflict
Meet the surfing grandfather from Florida who helped the Kurds fight ISIS
The main atrium of this would-be mall is now home to hundreds of Iraqis from villages outside Mosul. Here the concrete floors and walls give families more protection than the displaced families living in tents in a public park just across the street.
Conflict
Erbil’s abandoned construction sites are a ‘saving grace’ for refugees
Fighters from the Kurdistan Workers Party, or PKK, stand in formation in northern Iraq on May 14, 2013.
Conflict
The US named this Kurdish party a terrorist group — now it needs its help to fight ISIS
Jiyayi Suleyman, 26, is Nashville’s first Kurdish American police officer. “I took this job to bridge the gap between not only the Kurdish community but the Muslim community with the police department,” Suleyman says. “I wanted to be that one guy that mak
Culture
Take a ride-along with Nashville’s first Kurdish American cop
Female fighters from Colonel Nahida's peshmerga battalion view the front lines with ISIS.
Conflict
Meet the female colonel leading Kurdish forces into battle against ISIS
Female fighters from Colonel Nahida's peshmerga battalion view the front lines with ISIS.
Conflict
Meet the female colonel leading Kurdish forces into battle against ISIS
Conflict & Justice
In Kurdish Iraq, the fight against ISIS isn’t just for men
Conflict & Justice
In Kurdish Iraq, the fight against ISIS isn’t just for men