Kurds

• Winnipeg Kurds gearing up for Nowruz, Persian New Year celebration

  Nowruz is the Persian new year and marks the arrival of the spring season. Kurds haves been celebrating the occasion in Winnipeg since the 1990s, joined by others around the world.

  Canada

  Mar 23
  
• RCMP arrests 3 women after they return to Canada from ISIS camps in Syria

  Two Edmonton women who were supposed to return to Canada have gone missing.

  Canada

  Apr 6, 2023
  
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• Turkey begins new cross-border offensive against Kurdish rebels in northern Iraq

  The offensive has left at least 19 suspected Kurdish rebels dead and has wounded at least four Turkish soldiers, Turkey's defense minister said Monday.

  World

  Apr 18, 2022
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• Artist who escaped to Canada from Iraq using paint and canvas to raise funds for refugees

  Harem Tahir came to Canada in 2017 as a refugee, and said the transition hasn't been easy. Now he's helping raise money for other newcomers.

  News

  Dec 18, 2021
• Coronavirus: Kurdish-led northeast Syria reports first case

  In a statement, the regional administration said a 53-year-old man had died at Qamishli National Hospital on April 2.

  World

  Apr 17, 2020
• U.S. VP Mike Pence makes surprise visit to Iraq, visits U.S. troops

  The visit is Pence’s first to Iraq and comes nearly one year since President Donald Trump’s surprise visit to the country.

  World

  Nov 23, 2019
• Turkish president Erdogan ‘did a great job,’ says country’s ambassador to Canada

  Ambassador Kerim Uras was asked to respond to calls that Recep Tayyip Erdogan should be charged with war crimes.

  Canada

  Nov 17, 2019
• Trump has green-lit a wider mission to secure Syrian oil, raising legal questions

  Under the new plan, troops would protect a large swath of land controlled by Syrian Kurdish fighters.

  Economy

  Nov 5, 2019
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• Burmese medic killed in Syria had gone there to serve people: widow

  Zau Seng had traveled to Syria and Iraq several times to treat people injured on the front lines and document abuses.

  World

  Nov 5, 2019
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• Foreign medic killed in northeastern Syria: reports

  Turkey last month invaded northeastern Syria to push out Syrian Kurdish fighters, who it considers terrorists for their links to a Kurdish insurgency inside Turkey.

  World

  Nov 3, 2019