Ordered by megalomaniacal Saddam Hussein, Iraqi air force planes dropped napalm, mustard gas and other deadly agents on Halabja, a Kurdish city in Iraq’s north. An estimated 5,000 people were ...

Kurdish-led forces in Syria, allied with the United States, shot down an Air Force MQ-9 Reaper drone on Monday after mistakenly identifying it as a threat. Troops from the Syrian Democratic Forces ...

The Jordanian air force notably assisted the joint efforts of the U.S., Britain and France by intercepting some of the drones overflying its territory. Unlike Jordan, Iraqi Kurdistan conspicuously ...

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Recent US plans to help the militia form a 30,000-strong "border security force ... of Idlib. Air strikes were launched on 20 January as Turkey announced the operation had begun. Kurdish leaders ...

considers the Kurdish enclave in north-east Syria, known as Rojava, as a safe haven for PKK insurgents who have carried out a decades-long insurgency against Ankara. A top US Air Force general ...