Posts Tagged: Kurds ISIS
For One Night Only, Kurdish Cause Takes Center Stage at UN With Screening of ‘Peshmerga’
The Kurdish cause took center stage at the headquarters of the United Nations in New York on Tuesday night, as diplomats, journalists and members of...
US Jewish Leaders Express Support, Empathy for Kurds in Wake of Independence Vote
Several American Jewish leaders and organizations have expressed their affinity with Kurdish aspirations following Monday's independence referendum in the Kurdish regions of northern Iraq, in...
Bernard-Henri Lévy: Jews Have ‘Special Obligation’ to Support Kurdish Independence
One of the most prominent Western champions of Kurdish national rights has praised Monday's referendum on independence as the expression of a "just" desire on the part of...
Are Syrian Kurds the Key to Defeating ISIS?
JNS.org - What steps can the West take to defeat the Islamic State? According to leading experts, the US and Israel should work to push the Syrian...
The US Should Arm the Kurds, Not the Shiite Militias, in Iraq
The Obama administration has provided the Iraqi army with military hardware worth billions of dollars. Iraq's main power brokers are Iraqi Shiite militias, who are...
Canadian-Israeli Woman Who Helped Kurds in Fight Against ISIS Returns to Israel
JNS.org - Canadian-Israeli Gill Rosenberg, who was the first woman to go into Syria and help the Kurds fight the Islamic State, has reportedly returned...
An Eyewitness Account of the Kurds’ Battle Against ISIS
This firsthand report was originally published by MIDA. The desert grasslands around Mosul are parched and hot. Northern Iraq is not a place one would want...
