Clashes between Islamic State and US-backed Kurdish forces leave more than 200 people dead
Over four days, 175 IS members have been killed, Siamand Ali, an SDF spokesperson, told The Telegraph, adding that 27 of his force’s soldiers had been killed….
‘They are like my children’: Widows of slain fighters comfort IS orphans in terror camps
Most of the seven staff are mothers themselves, said Helat Centre manager Perwin Ali, who brings her own two children to work with her. “We opened the…
Kurdistan offers a welcoming antidote to the sheer ugliness of the ‘new normal’
Saddam Hussein, when not launching punitive gas attacks, evidently thought so too, as one of his former holiday palaces sits atop Garra Mountain. The ruin is now…