Kurds
Erdoğan Threatens Military Action Over Iraqi Kurds’ Independence Vote
Turkey says it will not accept the results of a vote to establish an independent Kurdistan.
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The VICE News Guide to the World — Week of September 18
A new, drug-resistant form of mutant malaria is spreading through South East Asia.
Britain's Confusing Kurdish Policy Is Screwing Anti-ISIS Fighters
It's perfectly simple: they're fighting ISIS, who we hate, with the YPG, which is linked to the PKK, who Turkey – who we're selling weapons to – hates.
Destroying ISIS Won't Save Iraq
Thanks to rampant ethnic factionalism and retaliatory violence, it's going to take a lot more than the Mosul offensive to change the toxic dynamic on the ground.
Surprising Things I Learned as a Woman Fighting ISIS
Kimberley Taylor is the first British woman to go and fight ISIS alongside Kurdish forces in Syria. Read part one of her exclusive three-part diary here.
Mourners pay tribute to young Canadian man who died fighting ISIS alongside Kurdish militia
Nazzareno Tassone, 24, is the second Canadian volunteer to die overseas, and part of a stream of young men and women who have been drawn to the fight against the Islamic State.