"In 60 Seconds" Who are the Kurds? (TV Episode 2016) - Referenced in, Featured in, Spoofed and more...
Kurdish cleric who disappeared in May found dead, thousands of Kurds take to the streets
In later years, under Saddam Hussein, the Yazidis were active in the Kurdish nationalist movement, and were targeted, along with the Kurds, by Hussein's "Arabisation" policies. Much of the discrimination they've endured has been provoked, in part, by theYazidis' religious beliefs, which draw...
The Kurds in northern Iraq were suffering under the burden of a long frontier war with the Islamic State (ISIS), a financial crisis and the arrival of more than one million people displaced by war, altering the ethnic balance of their proto state. Shaqlawa, once a popular holiday destination...
Genesis 34:25 (KJV):"And it came to pass on the third day, when they were sore, that two of the sons of Jacob, Simeon and Levi, Dinah's brethren, took each man his sword, and came upon the city boldly, and slew all the males." ...
If he were elected president, backed by a Democratic Congress with enhanced majorities, Mr Obama might well feel obliged to deliver on some of his promises. At the very least, the prospects for freer trade would then be dim. The sad thing is that one might reasonably have expected better ...
Mr Mohammed said there were 24 people in his group and that he was one of four Kurds. However, he told Sky News he met someone in hospital who said they were part of another group of 68 on the same boat - suggesting around 90 people were on board. ...
The Arabs were originally the people of the Arabian desert. Converted to Islam in the 7th century A.D., they conquered the Middle East from the Sassanian and Byzantine empires and established a succession of Arab-Islamic Middle Eastern empires from Spain to Central Asia and from the Caucasus ...
Jewish Israel is home for much of the Jewish population in Southwest Asia. Many of the people who live in Israel today were born there. However, the ancestors of these people moved to Israel from many other countries, often from other Southwest Asian countries. Much of this migration happened...
Today, I sat with tears in my eyes as I watched a mob of violent, radicalised, far-right insurrectionists storm the Capitol building in an attempted coup. One woman is dead, several law enforcement officers were injured, and elected officials fled the chamber in fear for their lives. ...