The KRSC reported the launching of an attack on Peshmerga forces from Zummar. Meanwhile, shelling continued on the Christian town of Tel Asqaf.

In our military-revering culture, it’s a strange thing for a president to start a war of words with the grieving families of slain soldiers. Strange, yes. But from Donald Trump’s campaign season feud with the parents of Humayun Khan, who died protecting fellow...

As Trump’s dangerous move on Iran’s nuclear deal and his provocative reaction to North Korea undercut diplomacy, tension is rising for World War III. Discord in the international community has been amplified in conflicts of identity politics across America. Greed...

Kurds and Iraqi forces battled in three locations, including an Assyrian Christian town. Meanwhile, a mass grave was found near Mosul.

The reconciliation agreement signed between rival Palestinian parties, Hamas and Fatah, in Cairo on October 12 was not a national unity accord – at least, not yet. For the latter to be achieved, the agreement would have to make the interests of the Palestinian people...

ISIS/Daesh militants continue to stage attacks in captured towns such as Mosul and Hawija.

"The Kurds have no friends but the mountains," is an old lament. Last week, it must have been very much on Kurdish minds. As their U.S. allies watched, the Kurdish peshmerga fighters were run out of Kirkuk and all the territory they had captured fighting...

The looting of Kurdish homes in recently captured town appears to continue unchecked.

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There’s something very wrong with an ideological movement that calls for opposition to centralism, protests high taxation, and defends the right to cultural and political autonomy – and yet, when it comes down to actually supporting these ideals in real life, cannot...