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 ...
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 ...
It remains unclear when Iraqi Kurdistan will ultimately receive any air defenses. As an autonomous region, it cannot acquire or purchase air defenses for itself without going through the central ...
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 ...
In Iraq, the British twice quashed uprisings led by Sheikh Mahmoud, the self-declared "king of Kurdistan," in 1920 and 1923. Britain's use of its air force to bomb Kurdish villages was one of the ...
The Iraqi air force is taking a rising toll of women and children through its attacks on Kurdish villages, and this pressure may hamper further Kurdish advance. Thus, although judging by its ...
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 ...
Ukraine's Air Force has said that there was a threat of a Russian ballistic missile strike on Kyiv and several other parts of ...