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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 535

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Illustrative - In this file photo taken on November 17, 2016, Kurdish Peshmerga fighters stand on a sand barrier created by Kurdish forces to demarcate their border, in the Nineveh plain, northeast of Mosul, Iraq. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla, File)
December 6, 2021, 11:33 am
4 Iraqi Kurdish fighters killed, 5 wounded in attack blamed on Islamic State
Kurdish forces do not say how troops were killed in assault on outpost north of Kirkuk; it is 3rd attack on fighters blamed on IS jihadists in less than 2 weeks
By AFP
A convoy of Russian military vehicles drives toward the northeastern Syrian city of Kobane on October 23, 2019 (AFP)
October 23, 2019, 4:51 pm
Russian forces deploy at Syrian border under new accord with Turkey
Kremlin tells Kurdish fighters to pull back from frontier or face being ‘steamrolled’ by Erdogan’s troops
By Suzan Fraser and LEFTERIS PITARAKIS
Russian President Vladimir Putin, right, and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan shake hands before their meeting in the Bocharov Ruchei residence in the Black Sea resort of Sochi, Russia, October 22, 2019. (Presidential Press Service via AP, Pool )
October 22, 2019, 10:05 pm
Kurds pull out from Syria border region as Putin, Erdogan reach buffer zone deal
Hours before Ankara set to resume offensive against US allies, leaders of Turkey and Russia agree to create 20-mile deep area free of Kurdish fighters
By Suzan Fraser and VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV
Iraqi pro-government forces gather in Rawa after troops retook the Euphrates valley town from Islamic State group jihadists, November 18, 2017. (AFP /Suleiman al-ANBARI)
July 4, 2018, 2:24 pm
Iraq launches major anti-IS operation after hostage killings
Federal Iraqi forces and peshmerga fighters work together for the first time since clashes following last year’s Kurdish independence referendum
By AFP
Reporter Ziv Genesove speaks to residents of Dohuk, in Iraqi Kurdistan, on election day, May 12, 2018. (Ziv Genesove/ Times of Israel)
May 14, 2018, 2:53 am
As they vote in Iraqi elections, Kurds say they feel abandoned by Israel
On the streets of Iraqi Kurdistan on election day, an Israeli journalist speaks to locals about their relationship with the Jewish state
By Ziv Genesove
Smoke billows from an area near the Iraqi town of Nawaran, some 10km (six miles) north east of Mosul, as Iraqi Kurdish Peshmerga fighters march down a dirt road on October 20, 2016, during the ongoing operation to retake the city from the Islamic State group. (AFP/Safin Hamed)
February 9, 2018, 11:32 am
Iraqi Kurds accused of carrying out ‘mass executions’ of IS suspects
Human Rights Watch calls for probe into allegations that Kurdish security forces executed ‘perhaps hundreds’ of male detainees one week last summer
By AFP
Kurdish people show their support for a referendum on independence for Kurdistan at a massive rally held at the Erbil Stadium in Erbil, Iraq, on September 22, 2017. (Chris McGrath/Getty Images via JTA)
November 30, 2017, 9:57 pm
Jewish activists for independent Kurdistan promote cause in NY, Jerusalem
Deputy Defense Minister Eli Ben-Dahan and other lawmakers host delegation of Kurds for conference on relations with Israel
By JTA
Members of the Iraqi forces fire mortars against Kurdish Peshmerga positions near the area of Faysh Khabur, located on the Turkish and Syrian borders in the Iraqi Kurdish autonomous region, on October 26, 2017. ( AFP PHOTO / AHMAD AL-RUBAYE)
October 28, 2017, 6:38 pm
Iraq sees ‘progress’ in talks on Kurdish peshmerga pullback
Iraq’s PM has ordered a 24-hour ceasefire in clashes between federal forces and Kurdish fighters
By AFP
Iranian Kurdish Peshmerga, members of the Iranian Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP-Iran), take part in routine military exercise in Koya, 100 kms east of Erbil, the capital of the autonomous Kurdish region of northern Iraq, on October 22, 2017. (AFP PHOTO / SAFIN HAMED)
October 26, 2017, 9:07 am
Iraq forces assault last IS bastion, advance on Kurds
Baghdad seeking to reassert federal control of long disputed territory after Kurdish independence referendum
By AFP
Iraqi security forces and Popular Mobilization Forces patrol in Tuz Khormato, that was evacuated by Kurdish security forces, 130 miles north of Baghdad, Iraq, Monday, Oct. 16, 2017. (AP Photo)
October 17, 2017, 6:03 pm
After Kirkuk, Kurdish forces pull out of more areas in Iraq
Withdrawal of peshmerga from Sinjar is the second such move from territory they dispute with Iraq’s central government
By Balint Szlanko
Iraqis gather as Iraqi forces arrive in the first neighborhood on the southern outskirts of Kirkuk on October 16, 2017. (AFP/AHMAD AL-RUBAYE)
October 16, 2017, 2:36 pm
Kurdish fighters said withdrawing from Kirkuk as Iraqi forces advance
Pro-government troops take military base, military airport and two of six oil fields in disputed region
By AFP
This image from a video shows Iraqi soldiers in military vehicles in the Qatash area moving towards a gas plant, south of Kirkuk, Iraq, October 16, 2017. (APTN via AP)
October 16, 2017, 11:15 am
Kurds report casualties in Iraqi army assault on Kirkuk
Unverified reports speak of burned houses and deaths, as US urges sides to ‘avoid escalatory actions,’ keep focus on IS
By AP and ToI Staff
This image made from a video provided by RUDAW TV shows what the Irbil-based Kurdish broadcaster says are Peshmerga fighters and volunteers arriving on military trucks in Kirkuk, Iraq, October 16, 2017. (RUDAW TV via AP)
October 16, 2017, 10:23 am
Iraqi army takes on Kurds in disputed territory
Move aimed at uprooting Kurds who occupied oil-rich Kirkuk three years ago to halt Islamic State takeover
By PHILIP ISSA
Iraqi forces gesture from a river bank across from Kurdish peshmerga positions on October 14, 2017, on the southern outskirts of Kirkuk. (AFP PHOTO / AHMAD AL-RUBAYE)
October 15, 2017, 11:56 am
Iraqi troops in armed standoff with Kurdish forces in Kirkuk
Kurds reject Baghdad’s deadline for withdrawal from positions won over past 3 years, as US tries to cool tempers flaring over independence referendum
By Ahmad Al-Rubaye
Illustrative: Iraqi tanks deploy in the village of Bashir, south of Kirkuk, Iraq, Friday, Oct. 13, 2017. Kurdish forces have withdrawn from the edges of a disputed region in northern Iraq, a commander said Friday, amid tensions with Iraq's central government over the administration of the oil-rich city of Kirkuk. (AP Photo/Emad Matti)
October 14, 2017, 8:42 am
Mattis urges Iraqi, Kurdish forces to avoid conflict
US defense secretary tells sides to focus on the common fight against the Islamic State
By Lolita C. Baldor
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