BASHIQA, Iraq (Reuters) - Kurdish peshmerga forces who stormed an Islamic State-held town in northern Iraq were confident they would take control quickly. Then a jihadist sniper started shooting from ...

Two years after he explored how former Iraqi president Saddam Hussein evaded capture following his ousting from power in the 2023 documentary “Hiding Saddam Hussein,” Kurdish/Norwegian filmmaker ...

BNASLAWA, Iraq, July 2016: A Kurdish sniper sights in on a target during an exercise at a training site outside Erbil, the capital of Iraq’s Kurdish region. The exercise was the culmination of a ...

Syrian security personnel occupied roads leading to the Kurdish-majority districts of Aleppo on Wednesday, a day after a truce halted clashes between the army and the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF).

BEIRUT -- Islamic State group militants cornered in their last foothold in eastern Syria fought back with suicide car bombs, snipers and booby traps Monday, slowing Kurdish fighters advancing under ...

SURUC, Turkey The shells were already roaring down on the Kurdish fighters from the hill above Kobani when more than 30 Islamic State militants backed by snipers and pickups mounted with heavy machine ...

SURUC, Turkey – The shells were already roaring down on the Kurdish fighters from the hill above Kobani when more than 30 Islamic State militants backed by snipers and pickups mounted with heavy ...