By March 2014, 380,000 Iraqis are internally displaced. The majority of them flee Fallujah and Ramadi where the Iraqi Army is battling Sunni insurgents. SHAQLUJA The Kurds in northern Iraq were suffering under the burden of a long frontier war with the Islamic State (ISIS), a financial cri...
Kurds of Southwest Asia believe themselves to be descendants of the Medes, an ancient Iranian people. In fact, Kurds share many aspects of their culture with Iranians. © Brain Wrinkles Like the Arabs, the Kurds are overwhelmingly Muslim, and the great majority are Sunni; only 5% are Shi’...
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Iran and Turkey are not Arab countries and their primary languages are Farsi and Turkish respectively. Arab countries have a rich diversity of ethnic, linguistic, and religious communities. These include Kurds, Armenians, Berbers and others. Is Egypt and Arab country? Long known for its ancient...
According to some surveys, almost all of Iran's 82,000,000 people are Muslim, with90% of those being Shi'a, almost all of these from the Twelver sect. Another 10% are Sunni, most of them Kurds, Achomis, Turkmens, and Baluchs, living in the northwest, northeast, south, and southeas...
(the Kurds), nor Iranian soldiers in the Iran-Iraq war of the 1980s. I knew France and Russia had sold Iraq WMD technology more recently. It seemed a no-brainer he had WMDs, and while I doubted he would use it in anything other than a defensive capacity after the Gulf War, the ...
The northern region, which shares a border with Iran, is a hub of economic activity and the primary gateway for the Kurdistan Regional Government to import Iranian goods and fuel, and Kurds in Erbil lined up for gas, fearing shortages. The KRG also suspended working hours across educational ...