A Kurdish rebel group says it is withdrawing from the town of Sinjar in northern Iraq, a move that follows threats of attack from Turkey. Kurdistan Workers Party, or PKK, says in a statement Friday ...

On May 2, clashes broke out between the Iraqi Army and the Sinjar Resistance Units (YBS), a Yezidi armed group established to defend Iraq’s Sinjar region from ISIS in 2014. Initial reports have ...

Prior to the 2003 Iraq war, most pundits placed their bets on Kirkuk becoming Iraq’s flashpoint: Kirkuk, after all, was not only a multi-ethnic and multi-sectarian city that had suffered waves of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. By Isabel Coles NEAR SINJAR TOWN, Iraq (Reuters) - Kurdish forces who have launched an offensive to retake Sinjar from Islamic ...

There is growing fear in Iraq of a potential Turkish military incursion to drive the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) out of Sinjar, a contested area in the country’s north. Such a move would prove ...

BAGHDAD (AP) — A Kurdish rebel group will withdraw from the town of Sinjar in northern Iraq on Friday, it said in a statement, following threats of attack from Turkey’s president who has launched a ...

Kurdish peshmerga units have withdrawn from the heavily contested area of Sinjar in northern Iraq on Tuesday, handing control over the enclave to Iranian-backed paramilitaries tied to Iraq’s security ...

This image is taken from a CENTCOM video showing coalition airstrikes in support of the Peshmerga offensive to retake Sinjar and disrupt the Islamic State’s supply routes. The Kurdistan Region ...

Sinjar Resistance Units (YBŞ) announced that three of their commanders lost their lives in the airstrike targeting a vehicle near the Serdest Camp. A pickup truck near the Serdest Camp in Sinjar ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. ERBIL, Iraq (AP) — The Iraqi government has started exhuming a mass grave left behind by the Islamic State group in the ...

Local officials say an airstrike has targeted a militant group in northern Iraq’s Yazidi heartland of Sinjar and they attribute the strike to Turkey. The semi-autonomous Kurdish region’s ...