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in Dokan, Iraqi Kurdistan SURVIVORS of Saddam Hussein’s brutal campaign against the Iraqi Kurds have urged the United Nations, Britain and the United States to break their silence and prevent Turkey from carrying out another genocide. Speaking to the Morning Star in the city of Dokan, where the Anfal campaign began in February 1988, they accused Western countries of putting oil and other corporate interests before the lives of Kurdish people. “Nato, the UN, the US and Britain are silent while Turkey invades us,” said Shamal Muhammed Sabir, who was four when he lost his entire family in ...

Turkish forces in fresh offensive against PKK in Iraqi Kurdistan The latest Turkish military operation against the PKK in Iraqi Kurdistan comes at a time when Ankara finds itself increasingly under strain, both on the domestic front and in its frosty ties with Washington. Iraqi riot police protect the Turkish Embassy in Baghdad on Feb. 18, 2021 after calls on social media to gather outside the Turkish embassy to protest Turkey's vows to invade the northwestern enclave of Sinjar. There have been rising tensions in north Iraq, where neighboring Turkey has been waging a fierce land and...

Two soldiers martyred in clash in Gara region as Turkey began second phase of Operation Claw Eagle.

IN Qandil Kurdish mothers are afraid of the night. They go to sleep not knowing if their children are going to wake up alive. The mountainous region that separates Iraq from Turkey is regularly bombed with drone attacks increasing in frequency according to locals, residents and municipal officials. Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan describes Qandil as a “terrorist swamp” that needs to be drained and refuses to acknowledge the reality that the area is home to a civilian population. Some 20,000 people live in the hundreds of villages in the rugged terrain which is part of the Zagros...

Inside the Kurdish guerrilla group that helped save the Yazidis - but faces annihilation by Turkey Turkey’s President has launched a military campaign against the PKK, which has mounted a 30-year insurgency for greater Kurdish rights 11 December 2020 • 2:27pm A family collecting herbs walk past the site of a recent airstrike in territory controlled by the PKK in the Qandil mountains Credit: Sam Tarling  It is a perfect outlaws’ refuge, a range of soaring peaks and plunging gorges cut off from the outside world. With networks of caves to hide in, Iraq’s Qandil Mountains are sometimes ...