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.
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.