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

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Displaced Kurds are being told to say away from Tuz Khormato because the situation is still too volatile there. Hundreds of homes have been destroyed.

In what is likely to be the final battle to reclaim Kirkuk province, several civilians were killed or wounded.

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Security forces described as Shi’ite militiamen shot at protestors in two recently acquired cities.

Barely a month after President Donald Trump announced plans to deepen and extend the now 16-year-old U.S. war in Afghanistan, reports surfaced of plans to expand another signature Obama-era policy: the drone war. Specifically, The New York Times reported in late...

A hospital in Kurdistan revised it’s casualty figures for Peshmerga troops.

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