SULAIMANI – The Kurdish push for independence of the Kurdistan Region is likely to be a question of “not if but when,” a senior U.S. official said.

Rudaw.net - David Romano:

Washingtonpost.com - BEIRUT — Islamic militants using weapons they recently seized in neighboring Iraq intensified an offensive against Kurdish areas in northern Syria as they fight to expand the territory under their control, activists said Thursday.

Aso Zagrosî: Kürdler, farklı din ve mezheplere sahip olmalarına rağmen, Müslüman Kürdler İslam dünyasına yüzlerce ve hatta binlerce din alimini verdiler, “İslam dininin“ yayılmasında ve savunmasında yapılan savaşların ezici çoğunluğuna aktif bir şekilde katılm

"The president of the Kurdish region of northern Iraq has asked his parliament to prepare for a referendum on independence, potentially paving the way for the break-up of the country.

Sipan Hemo is the commander-in-chief of the People’s Protection Units (YPG), perhaps the most organized fighting force in Syria.

Rudaw.net -

ERBIL, Kurdistan Region – As the Kurdish parliament in Erbil considers a date for an independence referendum, there is growing acceptance of the likelihood Kurds would opt to have their own state, according to Kurdish officials.

İnsanın tüm yaşamı boyunca hiçbir zihinsel değişikliğe uğramadan aynı bakış açısıyla topluma ve dünyaya yönelik algı oluşturarak sağlıklı bir zihinsel yaşam oluşturması mümkün değildir. Elbette yaşam içerisinde insanların zihinsel dünyası zamanla farklılaşabilir.

Kürt Çığlığı Bahoz Şavata On yıllardır Kürt halkının özgürleşme çığlığı söz ile öfke ile kalkışmalar ile ve savaşmalar ile denendi. Bu çığlıklarda her seferinde canlı bedenler vardı, kendini insani değerler uğruna siperlere, ölümlere sunan.

Interview by HAWAR ABDULRAZZAQ -

Rûdaw: ERBIL, Kurdistan Region -

Since the 2003 war the Kurds have become the US ally and the most credible partner in post-Saddam Iraq

Masud Barzani, president of Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG), is in the habit of dangling from time to time the idea of independence for Kurdistan.

TheGuadian: Bashar al-Assad took advice from Iran on how to handle the uprising against his rule, according to a cache of what appear to be several thousand emails received and sent by the Syrian leader and his wife.

Open letter to the Mayor of Bochum

By Robert M. Danin - Friday marks the twenty-fourth anniversary of Saddam Hussein’s brutal chemical gassing of Halabja, a northern Iraqi Kurdish town.