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ISIS-Led Militants Capture Strategic Iraq City
Hardline Sunni militants are tightening their grip as they overran Tal Afar just before dawn this morning, following fighting on Sunday.
Iraqi Soldiers Fleeing ISIS Claim They Were 'Abandoned' by Senior Officers
Iraqi soldiers told VICE News that they felt they were abandoned by their leadership, starved of supplies and left unable to fight.
ISIS Is Finding Support During Lightning Advances in Iraq
Many of them feel victimized by Maliki’s Shiite government and what they see as the prime minister's authoritarian and sectarian tendencies.
Syria’s Sham Election: A Tale of Two Cities
Bashar al-Assad's reelection might be a theatrical farce, but it is exposing the complexities that lie within the deeply divided country.
Meet the New Faces of Queer Kurdish Art Rock
Adir Jan Tekîn is not your typical musician in Berlin. While Turkey has queer performers, including trans diva Bülent Ersoy, a lot of the performers remain closeted. Not him.
Photographs from Rojava: Syria's Unknown War
On the frontline of the battle between Kurdish fighters and jihadist rebels.
Could the Turkish Uprising Be a Breakthrough for the Country's Kurds?
The fallout from the protests in Turkey isn't all bad. Unthinkable only three weeks ago, the demonstrations have begun to unite Turkey's Kurds—both those in Istanbul and traveling there from the east of the country—with a broad cross-section of Turkish...