In a column in the independent Iraqi newspaper Kitabat, Mohammed Jawad Al-Abdali writes that it is doubtful that different parties will be able to from a stable coalition government after the country's recent elections.

In the Risk it All music video's description box Helly Luv dedicates the song to Kurdistan: FINALLY AFTER SO MANY MONTHS CREATING THIS VIDEO IT'S FINALLY DONE TODAY!!!!! I COULD NOT BE MORE IN LOVE AND PROUD OF THIS VIDEO. FIGHTING FOR YOUR DREAMS AND RISKING EVERYTHING FOR WHAT YOU LOVE IS WHAT I BELIEVE IN. THIS VIDEO WAS INSPIRED BY MY STRONG BEAUTIFUL KURDISH PEOPLE. WHO NEVER STOP FIGHTING FOR OUR COUNTRY AND INDEPENDENCE. TOGETHER WE CAN FIGHT FOR THIS DREAM. TOGETHER WE CAN BECOME ONE. TOGETHER WE CAN RISK IT ALL. THANK U EVERYONE WHO WAS PART OF THIS FROM THE BOTTOM OF MY HEART, ESPECIALLY ALL THE BEAUTIFUL PEOPLE AND THE SYRIAN CAMP THAT MADE THIS VIDEO COME ALIVE. ALSO, GOLDEN SCREEN THAT CREATED THIS ART PIECE WITH ME. I AM TRULY CRYING TEARS OF JOY TODAY! LONG LIVE KURDISTAN!!!

Kurdish pop singer Helly Luv has received death threats from extremists in Iraq due to her recently released music video "Risk It All," which has more than 2.5 million views on YouTube.

TEHRAN, Iran - A top Iranian general and 70 of his forces were on the ground in Iraq this summer, helping Kurdish fighters defend the regional capital Irbil against Islamic State militants, a senior commander from Iran's Revolutionary Guard said Wednesday.

Denial, elimination, mass murder, and ethnocide have constituted the main policies of the Islamic Republic of Iran in dealing with the national groups in this country. Totalitarian tendencies coupled with the lack of toleration of national and cultural pluralities inherent in the Iranian geographic order, with the Kurdish nation presenting itself at the top, was made manifest in the ominous duality of prison and execution, of which the Kurdish nation received a lion share.

The latest Tweets from PJAK (@EuPJAK). Free Life Party of Kurdistan

Iranian military troops have killed a number of terrorists from the so-called Party for Free Life of Kurdistan (PJAK) group seeking to cross the western borders into the country, a senior Iranian commander says.

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Party of Free Life of Kurdistan (PJAK) is a militant Kurdish nationalist group with bases in the mountainous regions of northern Iraq that has perpetrated numerous attacks in western Iran, southern Turkey and the northeastern parts of Syria where the Kurdish populations live.

Kurdish fighters from Turkey and Iraq are scrambling to help defend a vital Kurdish safe haven in northern Syria, where tens of thousands of Kurds have fled after an offensive by Islamic State (Isis) militants.

A short documentary on a woman-only militia group in Syria, super badass!

When Osama bin Laden began his war on America in 1996, he was posing two questions. The first was: What is Islam? Al-Qaeda's definition of the faith is one that is permanently in conflict with nonbelievers -- a category that includes all Muslims who don't subscribe to the narrow fundamentalism of bin Laden and his cohort.