Kurds

• 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
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• 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
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• 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
• 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
• 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
• Canada and the West must bring back their ISIS detainees: Kurdish representative

  Officials says if Western laws can't sustain a prosecution, then maybe the laws need to change.

  Canada

  Nov 3, 2019
• Turkey’s military will attack Kurdish forces left along Syrian border: official

  The Syrian Kurdish fighters have until 3 p.m. GMT Tuesday to pull back to positions about 30 kilometres from the Turkish border. Turkey and Russia will conduct joint patrols along a border strip once the Kurdish forces leave.

  World

  Oct 28, 2019
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• One of Baghdadi’s top aides was key to his capture: Iraq security officials

  U.S. President Donald Trump said on Sunday that Baghdadi died "whimpering and crying" in a raid by U.S. special forces in the Idlib region of northwest Syria.

  News

  Oct 27, 2019
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• ‘International state banditry’: Russia says U.S. presence in Syria illegal

  Russia's defence ministry says the move to send U.S. armoured vehicles to Syrian oil fields were motivated by a desire to protect oil smugglers and not by real security concerns.

  World

  Oct 26, 2019