We watched as caravans of hundreds of cars snaked along the main road that connects Mosul to the Kurdish controlled territory ... including army trucks, which were ferrying people back and forth.

It is also no-nation-state’s-land, defended on both sides by armies of quasi-states, Kurdistan and ... have been moved to Mosul. ISIS regards the Kurds, not the Iraqi army, as the more ...

Kurdish forces taking part in the offensive to retake the Iraqi city of Mosul from Islamic State militants are besieging a key town to the north-east. Peshmerga fighters have surrounded Bashiqa ...

The agreement marked a major victory for Damascus in its quest to unify the country, as violent unrest continues to grip ...

Above all, Kurdish participation in an offensive would require a military partner in the shape of an effective Iraqi army and local Sunni allies. Without the latter, a battle for Mosul conducted ...

The scars of ISIS still linger in Iraq, and the threat of extremism has not vanished. But hope has taken root in the ...

After Mazloum Abdi signed an agreement with Ahmad al-Sharaa let the Syrian Democratic Forces join the Syrian army, political reactions ... translate this move as a Kurdish concession to the ...