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Kurds, Obama and Ben Rhodes

Kurds, Obama and Ben Rhodes

If you take a walk in downtown Hawler and ask random Kurds if they know of Ben Rhodes, you will likely get blank stares and, “Nope, never heard of him.” If you were to do the same thing in Shengal, the Yezidi town in Kurdistan-Iraq, you should get grateful...

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And the Killing Continues…

And the Killing Continues…

September 18, 2016 “If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.” –Mother Teresa Acclaimed...

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Richard Engel and the Kurds

Richard Engel and the Kurds

August 21, 2016 Mr. Engel is chief foreign correspondent for NBC News. He has become a household name in America regarding news...

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Letters to the Kurdish Patriots — 2 —

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Unlike the Red Sea that parts to accommodate another emergency for another people, the Kurdish mountains remain impervious to the larger drama of its children. In the words of one character, they devour especially “children under three years old and [the] elderly.”

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