The Kurds are a large ethnic group with tens of millions of members, mostly located in Turkey, Syria, Iraq, and Iran. This region which overlaps across these countries is called Kurdistan; however, Kurdistan is not its own country and the Kurds have no nation-state of their own....
Adding other coalition forces, close to three-quarters of a million sets of boots are engaged in providing security at all levels.Given the spread of violence to regions not covered by the surge, and underscored by the recent bombings in the north that killed hundreds of Iraqi Yazidis that ...