The 'beauty' and the horror of the Iran-Iraq war
Thirty-five years ago this week, Iraq invaded Iran and what has been described as the 20th Century's longest conventional war
View ArticleWhy former French soldiers decided to fight in the ranks of Peshmerga?
Shafaq News / A group of former French soldiers, decided in a personal initiative to join the ranks of Peshmerga fighters who are fighting the "Islamic state" in Iraq, along with a number
View ArticleCrisis Looms for Refugees Taken In by Iraq's Kurds
Shafaq News/ When the Islamic State in 2014 began its rampage throughout Iraq, many of the displaced people found a safe haven in the Kurdistan provinces in the north.
View ArticleAnalysis : 42 million crazy Arabs support ISIS organization
Shafaq News/ The Islamic State may have up to 42 million supporters across the Arab World alone, according to research conducted by the Clarion Project.
View ArticleUS Officials Ask How ISIS Got So Many Toyota Trucks
Shafaq News/ U.S. counter-terror officials have asked Toyota, the world’s second largest auto maker, to help them determine how ISIS has managed to acquire the large number of Toyota
View ArticleTo Save Iraq, American idea to form non-partisan Kurdish army
Shafeq News/ More than a year after the so-called Islamic State overran Mosul and threatened Baghdad, the United States still can’t rely on the Iraqi Army
View ArticleChristianity Faces Extinction in Iraq Within Five Years: Report
Shafaq News/ Christianity could be extinct in Iraq within five years, according to a new
View ArticleThe Return ticket from ISIS hell .. The story of an Iraqi fled from Mosul
Shafaq News / The Islamic State organization "ISIS" has turned the city of Mosul into a big sprawling prison. Just think of leaving makes a person faces one fate: death.
View ArticleBremer , Blair , Saddam and ISIS .. Who is responsible for the events in...
Shafaq News / For years , the members of the Bush administration's accused each other, but "CNN" American Network said in a report that it was able
View ArticleThe new weapon of Peshmerga in its war against ISIS
Shafaq News / A student looks diligently up at his teacher and then down at an exercise book filled with rows of letters. Shkur Miro and the rest of the men listening carefully
View ArticleWebsites Battle in Kurdistan.. Thousands of dollars to bring fake fighters
Shafaq News / After stocks of websites raised and converted to be the voice of the press and the most widespread and free, several important criteria
View ArticleU.S. Cut Cash to Iraq on Iran, ISIS Fears
Shafaq News/ The Federal Reserve and Treasury Department temporarily shut off the flow of billions of dollars to Iraq’s central bank this summer as concerns mounted that the currency
View ArticleGeorge H.W. Bush: Dick Cheney ‘Had His Own Empire’ At White House and I have...
Shafaq News/ After years of holding back, former President George Bush has finally broken his public silence about some of the key figures in his son’s administration,
View ArticleCan Russia roll back the caliphate in Iraq and Syria?
Shafaq News/ Russia's military intervention in Syria in September, 2015, is a new gambit by
View ArticleA humiliating defeat for ISIS in Sinjar
Shafaq News / The Security Council of Kurdistan Region said that Peshmerga forces have succeeded in securing a number of strategic installations northern Sinjar town
View ArticleWhere are Islamic militants in Iraq getting their weapons? The answer...
Christopher Woolf/ Wunc Website- North Carolina Public Radio EDITOR'S NOTE: The sources of ISIS weaponry have received intense scrutiny since the Nov. 13 attacks in Paris. Here's a report of the roots...
View ArticleFinally … This is the Weakness point of ISIS
Shafaq News/ The "Islamic" identity of Islamic State has understandably attracted a lot of notice. There is no question that it is a fanatical group with a twisted religious ideology
View ArticleThe family of Alan Kurdi, the Syrian 'boy on the beach,' is coming to Canada
Shafaq News / CBC Canadian TV reported that the Kurdish child Alan, whose was found dead on a Turkish beach and got a global sympathy for the family, gained asylum in Canada.
View ArticleAbadi's future on the line due to "special forces" .. Factions warn: he is...
Shafaq News / The National Alliance and the influential Shiite factions in Iraq, said that the Prime Minister , Haider al-Abadi will dig his own political grave and undermines
View ArticleIs Iraq and Turkey heading into a military confrontation ?
Shafaq News / With the raise of the media war between Turkey and Russia in the wake of Turkey dropping a Russian fighter that was on a combat mission in Syria and bickering
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