TheGerman Defense Ministry says Daeshterrorists have launched a chemical attack on Kurdish forces fighting the militants in northern Iraq. A chemical weapons strike took place on the Kurdish front ... west of the city of Makhmour, 40 kilometers southwest of Erbil [the capital of Iraqs semi-autonomous region of Kurdistan] on Wednesday night, read ...

[caption id="attachment_110008" align="alignright" width="203"] A Kurdish peshmerga soldier in northern Iraq. Thousands of residents are fleeing for Kurdistan ahead of the Isis advance. Photograph: Reuters[/caption] Iraqi Kurdish Peshmerga forces have managed to thwart an offensive by members of the Takifiri ISIL militant group against a town in ...

[caption id="attachment_110008" align="alignright" width="141"] A Kurdish peshmerga soldier in northern Iraq. Thousands of residents are fleeing for Kurdistan ahead of the Isis advance. Photograph: Reuters[/caption] Two groups of Iraqi Kurdish fighters have arrived in the Turkish border town of Suruj on their way to join their fellow fighters defending ...

[caption id="attachment_111732" align="alignright" width="273"] Photographer: Safin Hamed/AFP via Getty ImagesAn Iraqi Kurdish Peshmerga fighter takes position on the front line in Khazer, near the Kurdish checkpoint of Aski kalak, 40 km West of Arbil, the capital of the autonomous Kurdish region of northern Iraq, on August 14, 2014.[/caption] Abruptly ...

[caption id="attachment_113503" align="alignright" width="208"] Kurdish Peshmerga troops participate in an intensive security deployment against Islamic State militants in a village on the outskirts of the province of Nineveh near the border province of Dohuk, August 9, 2014.CREDIT: REUTERS/ARI JALAL[/caption] (Reuters) -Iransupplied weapons and ammunition ...