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Quite some interesting information and news from the Kurdish regions – Bakur (Turkey), Başȗr (Iraq), Rojava (Syria) and Rojhilat (Iran) – is rarely, if ever, reported by the mainstream media.
The Kurdish Institute tries to fill this gap by reporting on a regular basis through its own news page recent facts and events, both from the Kurdish regions and from the rest of the world.
YPG grant safe access for 20 thousand Ezidis to Rojava
ANF - TIL KOCER 08.08.2014 West Kurdistan's People's Protection Units (YPG) forces have managed to form a safe corridor following a challenging fight to save tens of thousands who were stranded on Sinjar mountains after ISIS gangs attacked the city on 3 August. By...
Thousands of Yezidis massacred in Sinjar
ANF-BOTAN GULAN - SINJAR 08.08.2014 Dimensions of the massacres committed by ISIS gangs in the South Kurdistan city of Sinjar are emerging more clearly as more fearful reports of deaths are coming through from the city. At least three thousand people have been killed,...
HPG and YJA STAR guerrillas on their way to Sinjar
ANF * ÖZGÜR SERHAT /CIHAN ÖZGÜR /NUJIYAN MUNZUR - BEHDINAN 05.08.2014 HPG (People's Defense Forces) and Women’s Guerrilla Army YJA Star (Free Women’s Troops) forces have mobilized to go to Sinjar for the protection of civilians from ISIS (Islamic State of Iraq and...
Arabs in the front line with YPG
ANF - RABIA 07.08.2014 Arab youths from the Shammar tribe have been fighting in the front line with the YPG in clashes with ISIS gangs in the town of Rabia on the border of West Kurdistan (Rojava) since the beginning of August. After the YPG liberated the town of Til...
40,000 Iraqis stranded on mountain as Isis jihadists threaten death
Members of minority Yazidi sect face slaughter if they go down and dehydration if they stay, while 130,000 fled to Kurdish north Martin Chulov The Guardian, Thursday 7 August 2014 Tens of thousands of members of one of Iraq's oldest minorities have been stranded on a...
UN expresses ‘extreme concern’ over children reported killed in Sinjar
ANF - NEWS DESK 06.08.2014 15:30:00 The United Nations children’s agency (UNICEF) expressed “extreme concern” today over reports that some 40 children from northern Iraq’s Yazidi minority group died as a result of the violence being carried out in the Sinjar region by...
Latest situation in Sinjar
The clashes that began after the YPG intervened following the seizing of Sinjar by ISIS and the human tragedy in the mountains of Sinjar are now in their 4th day. ISIS gangs are reported to have suffered casualties in clashes with the Sinjar Resistance Units in the...
ISIL seizes village in Syria’s oil-rich Deir ez-Zor
The ISIL group clashed with local tribes seeking to control oil and gas-rich regions of the war-hit country. World Bulletin / News Desk Militants led by Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant – ISIL – captured Wednesday Suwayda village near Syria's eastern city of Deir...
‘Hundreds’ of Yazidis killed by ISIL rebels in Iraq
Yazidi lawmaker Fayyan Dahel says ISIL militants have abducted 500 women in the town of Sinjar and made them slave concubines. As many as 500 people from Iraq's Yazidi religious minority have been killed by the terrorist group Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant –...
