The Anfal genocide, one of modern history's darkest chapters, claimed 182,000 Kurdish, Assyrian, Shabak, Turkman, Yazidi, and Mandean lives and destroyed 4,500 villages.
Two Iraqi border guards were killed on Friday during a clash with fighters from the outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), Iraq's interior ministry said. Read more at straitstimes.com.
Fighting between Syrian Kurds -who a decade ago clawed out an autonomous territory in the country's northeast- and Turkish-backed militias is posing a serious threat to the current stability.
Kurdish PM asserts that any BP deal for Kirkuk oil fields in Iraq must involve Kurdish region, highlighting ongoing tensions with the central government.
Two pro-Kurdish Turkish lawmakers met Wednesday with the jailed founder of the PKK, part of an effort to revive dialogue between Ankara and the banned militant organisation.