As thousands of the country’s refugees risk their lives every day to enter Europe, Kobani’s residents are moving the other way, leaving camps in Turkey to rebuild their lives in the midst of a seemingly endless civil war.
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Kurdish militias keep ISIS at bay on the plains of northern Syria. They will become a key US ally in the fight against the terror group.
The Kurds and the Shiite units have proven ISIL’s most effective opponents, but in Jalawla, the differences between the reluctant brothers in arms could not be papered over.
Thousands of Yazidi women and children were kidnapped by ISIS. A group of smugglers are taking great risks to get them back.
Months of battling ISIL in the Yazidi city has turned these fresh-face recruits into hardened warriors.
With the war on ISIS deepening the Iraq’s religious divide, thousands of Sunni Arabs moved to the autonomous Kurdish region to escape the fighting in Anbar province and a sectarian backlash in government-held areas.
For Iraq’s half a million Yazidis, ISIL’s lightning advance towards Sinjar has shattered their belief in a peaceful coexistence with the Sunni Arabs that make up the majority of Nineveh province.
In a bold approach to conservation, the president Rafael Correa is trying to save the incredible rainforests and biodiversity of Yasuni National Park from further oil exploitation, but he needs $3.6bn to do so. The ambitious compensation plan has its critics.