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Bookmark or Share- Turkish military kills 21 Kurdish militants in northern Syria and Iraq ...ANKARA: The Turkish military killed 21 Kurdish militants in northern Syria and Iraq, the defense ministry said on Wednesday. In a statement, the ministry reported that 20 Kurdistan Workers Party ...
- The Kurds’ Long Struggle With Statelessness - Council on Foreign ...Iran bombards Kurdish opposition groups in northern Iraq for supporting anti-government protests roiling Iran. The demonstrations were sparked by a Kurdish Iranian woman’s death in police custody.
- Iraq - Mountains, Deserts, Tigris | BritannicaThe mountains, hills, and plains of northeastern Iraq occupy some 35,500 square miles (92,000 square km), about one-fifth of the country. Of this area only about one-fourth is mountainous; the remainder is a complex transition zone between mountain and lowland. The ancient kingdom of Assyria was located in this area.
- Iraqi Kurdistan - WikipediaDuring the 2014 Northern Iraq offensive, Iraqi Kurdistan seized the city of Kirkuk and the surrounding area, as well as most of the disputed territories in Northern Iraq. On 1 July 2014, Masoud Barzani announced that "Iraq's Kurds will hold an independence referendum within months."
- Kurdistan | History, Religion, Map, & Facts | BritannicaKurdistan, broadly defined geographic region traditionally inhabited mainly by Kurds. It consists of an extensive plateau and mountain area, spread over large parts of what are now eastern Turkey, northern Iraq, and western Iran and smaller parts of northern Syria and Armenia.
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