BBC 6/1/15: BBC reports from Shengal In northern Iraq, Kurdish forces are making progress against Islamic State (IS) in the strategically important town of Sinjar, after breaking the siege of nearby Mount Sinjar. Taking back control of Sinjar would mean restoring...
Iran executes Kurdish political prisoner Sabir Moane. Photo: Ekurd.net/sm Kurdish Human Rights Advocacy Group| Press Release — January 8, 2015 The Kurdish Human Rights Advocacy Group expresses its outrage at and condemns the brutal execution of Kurdish...
PNA- 7 Jan 15 – Five mass graves containing the remains of some 320 people believed to have been killed by the Islamic State militants have been found in the northern part of Iraq. Residents of areas on the southern and western edges...
Firat News Agency, 5/1/15 – On the second anniversary of the murder in Paris of Kurdish women Sakine Cansız (Sara), Fidan Doğan (Rojbîn) and Leyla Şaylemez (Ronahî) on 9 January 2013, the Kurds are to hold a march under the...
BBC, 6/1/15 – Kurdish fighters battling Islamic State (IS) in Kobane, northern Syria, have seized a key district and now control 80% of the town, activists say. Syrian Kurds backed by Iraqi Peshmerga forces captured the security district including the police HQ,...
Al Monitor, 7/1/15 – As Turkey’s Kurdish peace process seems to devolve into a “crisis process,” government quarters have begun suggesting the idea that the Kurdish Islamist Free Cause Party (Huda-Par) is the sole force capable of finishing off the Kurdistan...
