Peshmerga

REPORTER'S NOTEBOOK

Iraqi Kurdistan: Everything is all right – everyone is ISIL

Beneath the calm in the Kurdish region is a deep well of suspicion as the looming battle for Iraq’s Mosul fast approaches.

UNSC and international community must to be bold in the face of increasing use of chemical weapons in Syria and Iraq.

Washington’s claim to knowing what needs to be done is betrayed by its recent record in Iraq.

American and Kurdish ties are close but nothing fundamental has changed, yet.

US officials sign deal to give Peshmerga units some $415m for ammunition, food, pay and medical equipment.

Amnesty alleges forced displacement and destruction in areas recaptured from ISIL – claims Kurdistan government refutes.

Iraqi troops say they have recaptured strategic government complex in Ramadi, but ISIL still controls parts of the city.

Despite successes, Peshmerga soldiers struggling to counter ISIL’s use of asymmetric tactics to breach defence lines.

Pentagon says about 70 hostages saved from execution during raid on ISIL prison near Hawija, which left US soldier dead.

Decades after warrior-king Sheikh Mahmud’s overthrow, Kurds keep on fighting for a homeland.