ANKARA — The Iraqi Yazidi region of Sinjar must be cleared of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan said Wednesday. “Sinjar is right next to the Syrian ...

Still, tactical gains in Sinjar do not translate into a strategic victory over ISIL. While reinforcing the coalition–Kurdish alliance, the Sinjar offensive has exposed the deep divisions within the ...

Standing against this Turkish-KDP alliance are the rebel Turkish and Syrian Kurds of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), and People’s Protection Units (YPG), and their local Sinjari surrogate, the ...

ISIS built tunnels to survive airstrikes in Sinjar IRBIL, Iraq -- Under the Iraqi town of Sinjar, Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) militants built a network of tunnels, complete with ...

Kurdish peshmerga units have withdrawn from the heavily contested area of Sinjar in northern Iraq on Tuesday, handing control over the enclave to Iranian-backed paramilitaries tied to Iraq’s ...

Kurdish forces, after success in Sinjar, start uncovering litany of horrors in liberated area, including at least one mass grave rigged with bombs ...

Kurdish and Yazidi fighters battled to take the strategic northern Iraqi town of Sinjar back from Islamic State on Sunday after breaking a months-long siege of the mountain above it.

Kurdish Peshmerga fighters have taken control of Sinjar from the Islamic State, which captured it last year and set off a campaign of horror against the Iraqi town’s Yazidi minority. Masoud ...

Kurdish Peshmerga troops pushed into Sinjar "from all directions" Friday to rid the northern Iraqi town of the remaining Islamic State (ISIS) militants, according to a tweet from the Kurdish ...

Unlike the Northern Alliance in Afghanistan circa 2001, the Peshmerga have not been fighting an incumbent government- or much of anyone- until recently.

Kurdish forces have taken back the Iraqi city of Sinjar, after over 15 months of Islamic State occupation. NPR's Rachel Martin speaks with Wall Street Journal reporter Ben Kesling about the situation.