...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire....
eyes an invasion of northern Iraq against the group.
London-based, Qatar
...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates. Home of nutbag holy manYusuf al-Qaradawi...-owned The New Arab said the Iraqi army and "Yazidi mobilization forces" received management of the Khan Sour border crossing with Syria from 15 PKK fighters who brought down the group’s posters, flags and bunkers in the area before pulling out from Tal al-Banat area.
According to the newspaper, four-wheeled vehicles were waiting for the fighters, and carried them to al-Fatha, a road leading to the Syrian-Iraqi borders near the syrian city of Hassaka.
PKK recently announced it was pulling out from Iraq’s Sinjar having become assured that Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling
Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not
reallyMoslems....
holy warriors were no longer a threat to the Kurdish-speaking Yazidi minority there.
PKK has been active in Sinjar since 2014, when Islamic State snuffies proclaimed a self-styled "caliphate" in Iraq and neighboring Syria.
Turkey brands PKK fighters as terrorists, and has launched regular
s on their locations in northern Iraq. President Sultan Recep Tayyip Erdogan the First
... Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him. It's a sin, a shame, and a felony to insult the president of Turkey...said recently that Turkey was planning to launch an offensive against the group in Sinjar, a step which Iraqi officials rejected officially.