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Australia to join US in arming Kurds in Iraq


Sunday, 31 August, 2014 , 06:33 AFP Australia said Sunday it would help the United States in an international effort to transport weapons to Kurdish forces fighting Islamic State militants in Iraq.

Australia to join US in arming Kurds in Iraq


Sunday, 31 August, 2014 , 01:45 AFP Australia said Sunday it would help the United States in an international effort to transport weapons to Kurdish forces fighting Islamic State militants in Iraq.

Anti-jihadist fight forges fragile Kurdish unity


Saturday, 30 August, 2014 , 10:20 AFP Kurdish groups from Iraq and three neighbouring countries are putting aside old rivalries to battle jihadist militants, but there are cracks in this newly-forged unity and it may not last.

Jihadists behead Iraq Kurdish fighter: monitor


Friday, 29 August, 2014 , 07:07 AFP The jihadist Islamic State group has posted video of the execution of a captured Kurdish fighter, in a warning to Iraqi Kurdish leaders to end military cooperation with Washington, a monitoring group said.

Jihadists burn 3 Iraq oil wells as Kurds launch attack


Thursday, 28 August, 2014 , 15:00 AFP Retreating jihadists set three wells ablaze at a northern Iraq oil field Thursday as they battled Kurdish forces who launched a major attack nearby, officials said.

Albania sending weapons to Kurdish forces in Iraq


Thursday, 28 August, 2014 , 14:20 AFP Albania has started sending weapons and ammunition to Kurdish forces fighting Islamic State militants in Iraq, a defence ministry source said on Thursday.

Jihadists burn three Iraq oil wells as Kurds attack


Thursday, 28 August, 2014 , 10:52 AFP Retreating jihadists set three wells ablaze at a northern Iraq oil field Thursday as they battled Kurdish forces who launched a major attack nearby, officials said.

Iraqi Kurdish student uses holiday to fight jihadists


Thursday, 28 August, 2014 , 08:01 AFP Briyar Kamal, a 24-year-old Kurdish student, achieved good marks at university, but instead of relaxing during his summer holiday he is fighting jihadists who have overrun swathes of Iraq.

Iraq strikes jihadists as fears grow for thousands in besieged town


Wednesday, 27 August, 2014 , 08:40 AFP Iraqi warplanes have begun targeting jihadists besieging the Shiite Turkmen town of Amerli amid growing fears for the safety of thousands of residents short of food and water and facing a "massacre".

Iraq village now eerie outpost for Kurdish fighters


Wednesday, 27 August, 2014 , 02:00 AFP Only the scattered voices of Kurdish fighters break the silence in the Iraqi village of Wadi Osaj, where the mud and cement block houses stand empty and locked after residents fled.