Kurdish leaders encouraged Jews who once fled the region due to religious persecution to come back, after hosting the first-ever Holocaust Remembrance Day ceremony in the capital of the autonomous area in northern Iraq. “Jews would be surprised to find that they are freer and safer here than in certain European capitals,” Sherzad Omer Mamsani,…
Israel has purchased $1 billion worth of oil from Iraqi Kurdistan in recent months, the Financial Times reported. The import of some 19 million barrels of oil took place over the last three months, The Financial Times report said, citing shipping data, trading sources and satellite tanker tracking. The amount represents about one third of…
The conflicts in Syria have increased the complexity of the Middle East and exacerbated the instability in the region. Terrorists have taken advantage of the instability, and have made dramatic territorial gains in Syria and Iraq. They now threaten two minorities — Kurds and Druze. The Kurds, who are non-Muslims, are starting to receive military…
A Canadian-Israeli who was the first foreign woman to help the Kurds in their fight against Islamic State said on Monday that she had volunteered in an effort to “turn her life around” after being jailed in the United States for an international phone scam. Having spent eight months with Kurdish YGP guerrillas in Syria…
As a journalist and tourist, one feels like an invader of this quiet sanctuary. Had these young women seen the evils of ISIS? Did they know people who were still in captivity or had been murdered? Luqman Mahmood, a local Yazidi journalist and economics teacher, had volunteered to give us a tour. “They have suffered…
Gillian Rosenberg, the Canadian-Israeli Jewish woman rumored to have been captured by Islamic State jihadists, posted a message on Facebook that she was safe. “Guys, I’m totally safe and secure,” Rosenberg, 31, wrote on Monday evening. “I don’t have Internet access or any communication devices with me for my safety and security. I can’t reply…
A Canadian-Israeli Jewish woman who joined Kurdish forces in their fight against the Islamic State reportedly has been taken captive by ISIS. The capture of Gillian Rosenberg and several other female fighters has been reported on blogs and Islamist websites, Israeli media is reporting. Rosenberg, 31, reportedly was captured by jihadists near the Syrian city…
(Reuters) – A Canadian-born immigrant to Israel has become the first foreign woman to join Kurds battling Islamic State in Syria, a Kurdish source said on Tuesday, as details of the volunteer’s turbulent past surfaced. Gill Rosenberg, 31, is a civil aviation pilot who enlisted in an Israeli army search-and-rescue unit before being arrested in…
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