Months of battling ISIL in the Yazidi city has turned these fresh-face recruits into hardened warriors.
The National: Kurdish teens settle into life on the frontline in Sinjar
Months of battling ISIL in the Yazidi city has turned these fresh-face recruits into hardened warriors.
The Kurds and the Shiite units have proven ISIL’s most effective opponents, but in Jalawla, the differences between the reluctant brothers in […]
The fight against ISIS has drawn in lost souls looking for meaning in life.
While both Iraq’s Kurdish fighters and Shiite militias played a key role in blunting and then reversing ISIL’s surge in Iraq, relations […]
High rates of female genital mutilation set Iraqi Kurdistan apart from the rest of the country. More than the men, it is […]