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  IS frees over 230 kidnapped Yazidis in north Iraq

  World | November 03, 2014 23:49 IST

  Baghdad: The Islamic State (IS) militants have freed 234 kidnapped men and women from the Iraqi Yazidi minority community, the Kurdish regional government said Monday."Some 234 members of Yazidi community, including 150 females and many

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  Iraqi Peshmerga starts entering Syria's Kobane

  World | October 30, 2014 18:42 IST

  Damascus: A total of 10 Peshmerga fighters crossed the Turkish borders into Syria's predominantly Kurdish town of Kobane Thursday morning, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.The 10 fighters are the first batch to enter