Iran's News Agency Talks About KRG-Baath-Qatari Conspiracy
Interesting discourse by Iran's semi-official Fars News Agency: An Iraqi news website disclosed on Tuesday that officials of Iraq's former Ba'ath regime and several others from the Kurdistan Regional...
View ArticleAssad Bombs Tel Brak and Tal Hamis From Qamishli
Hasakah province: Military helicopters bombarded parts of the towns of Tel Brak and Tel Hamis [where there are FSA groups], causing material damage. Regime forces stationed in the Tartab base in...
View ArticlePolitical Union To Merge In One Party
Welati reports KDP-supported Democratic Political Union of four parties will merge into one party in one month.
View ArticlePKK Supports Tamil Claims Against Sri Lanka
PKK supports Tamils.YEK-KOM, a Germany based federation of numerous Kurdish organizations, demanding justice for the genocide of the Eezham Tamil nation, condemned the world powers who rejected “the...
View ArticleFSA Group Joins Jahbat al-Akrad in Aleppo
Formation of FSA-batallion in rural hills of Aleppo that joins Jahbat al-Akrad.
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PYD Arrest KNC-Linked Activists And Rebels
Allegedly some arrests of armed rivals of PYD recently. I haven't seen any official statements of the PYD yet on this subject. Apart, from PYD-leader Salih Muslim saying they will launch a court case...
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FSA Releases 14 Kidnapped Kurds
FSA releases 14 Kurds that were abducted between Tal Tamr and Abu Racinne and who were in the hands of the FSA's 313 brigade. They were handed over to the Asayish in Ras Al-Ain. Most likely they were...
View ArticleYPG Claim: We Killed 12 Assad Soldiers in Aleppo
See Hawar News. Fighting took place in Sheikh Maqsoud. Moreover, Hawar news claimed that the regime would kill prisoners if the FSA would storm the prison in Aleppo. There are also Kurdish political...
View ArticleAlleged Clash YPG-Arabs In Village
Rumours YPG clashed with Arab villagers in Tal Tishreen village in Derbisiye in the so-called Arab belt near the Turkish border (see more about that here). PYD denied it.View Larger Map
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Guardian: Kurds And Tribes Only Rival to Jihadist Power
Report claims:Jabhat al-Nusra, affiliated with al-Qaida and other extreme Islamist groups, control the majority of the oil wells in Deir Ezzor province, displacing local Sunni tribes, sometimes by...
View ArticleHawar News: KRG Border Still Closed
According to Hawar News, the KDP/KRG closed the border crossing since Monday morning after the PYD Asayish arrested 74 members of Al-Parti on 18 May, which were released yesterday. An Al Jazeera report...
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Member of Salah El-Din Eyubi brigade arrested by YPG
Member of Salah El-Din Eyubi brigade arrested by YPG in Efrin facebook.com/photo.php?fbid…— Wladimir(@vvanwilgenburg) May 20, 2013 The group asked the YPG to release their 'brother'. See their FB page...
View ArticleOverview of PYD-KDP Discourse Through Twitter
Collection of Tweets about the recent tensions between the PYD and the KDP (20-21 March)Welati earlier reported both the YPG and the Peshmerga sent reinforcements and heavy weapons to the border...
View ArticleMain Syrian Kurdish Group Sees EU as Example for Kurds
By Wladimir van Wilgenburg and Sofia Barbarani LONDON – Syria’s most powerful Kurdish opposition group sees the European Union (EU) as a more viable model for Syrian Kurds than Iraq’s autonomous...
View ArticleIran Again Expresses Worries About PKK Withdrawal
FARS News AgencyMay 21, 2013 TuesdayIran Urges Respect for Iraq's Territorial Integrity after PKK Withdrawal from TurkeyTEHRAN (FNA)- Iran on Tuesday said the recent agreement between Ankara and the...
View ArticleStatement of Progressive Party On Recent Events
PUK's Democratic Progressive Party in a statement calls on KDP-S and PYD to work together, implement the Erbil agreement and to prevent escalation. The party says it work with both the KNC and the...
View ArticleGerman Intelligence: Assad Could Take Over Southern Syria
Should the conflict continue as it has in recent weeks, says Schindler, government troops could retake the entire southern half of the country by the end of 2013. That would leave only the north for...
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PKK Thanks KRG MPs For Signing Petition
MPs from KRG parliament visit KCK/PKK. Supposedly 100 MPs signed the petition to free the PKK-leader Abdullah Ocalan reports PUKmedia in Kurmanci. Prominent Kurdish politicians such as Kosrat Rasul...
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3 Kurdish Parties To Join Asayish
Asayish deny affiliation to YPG/PYD. Moreover, they say Kurdish Democratic Progressive Party (lead by Hamid Darwish) in Syria, Left Party in Syria (lead by Muhammad Musa) and Syrian Kurdish Democratic...
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