The 26-year-old Virginia man who was taken into custody in Iraq after he purportedly deserted the Islamic State told a Kurdish TV station Thursday that he decided to escape after he grew dissatisfied during intensive religious training in Mosul. Mohamad Khweis told Kurdistan 24 that his life under the Islamic State in Mosul was a “very strict” […]
Carrying a suicide bullet might seem an extremely dark and demented concept, but for me, it’s just symbolic of my limitations as a volunteer.
Kurdish special forces rescued a 16-year-old Swedish girl from ISIS captivity in Iraq last week, Kurdish military officials said on Tuesday. The Kurdistan Region Security Council (KRSC) released a statement on Twitter that identified the girl as Swedish national Marlin Stivani Nivarlain and revealed that she was rescued near ISIS-held Mosul, Iraq’s second-largest city. “She […]
Turkey, an erstwhile U.S. ally long hailed as a bastion of secular democracy in the Muslim world, could be spiraling towards all-out civil war and potential dissolution as conflicts between Turkish security forces and Kurds and other ethnic minorities continue to escalate. These conflicts have been exacerbated by the catastrophic war in neighboring Syria, which has […]
Turkey is a NATO member — and so, by treaty, an American ally. Yet Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan sure didn’t sound like one on during a Thursday: He blamed the United States for, among other things, turning the Middle East into “a sea of blood.” This all comes back to a big disagreement over one […]
I had an opportunity to chat with a friend of mine, Red, who went to fight for the Kurdish Peshmerga, but instead ended up incarcerated.
Although Musa, a Kurd who served with the YPG for three years as a sniper, is reported to have been killed in 2015, he is still remembered by those who fought beside him.
Watch this documentary on the group of men known informally as the ISIS Hunting Club.
The Peshmerga have a very unique method of utilizing their snipers, probably most closely resembling that of the sharpshooters in World War I.
A volunteer should try to fill every facet of their role that is plausible. In other words, make yourself useful to the people you claim you want to aid.
Amnesty International has accused the Kurds in both Rojava and Bashur of human-rights violations.
I caught up with my old volunteer buddy and wanted to get his perspective and reflections on the situation in Iraq and his time spent with the Peshmerga.
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