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languagexs · 3 months

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The History and Symbolism of the Kurdish Flag Reflects on the Kurdish Language Interpretation Need

The Kurdish Flag: A Symbol of Identity, Pride, and Independence for the Kurdish Community The vibrant red, white, and green Kurdish flag with its golden sun emblem is an important symbol for Kurdish people worldwide. This eye-catching national flag represents Kurdish identity, cultural heritage, and the long struggle for independence. In this comprehensive guide, we will explore the meanings…

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#Kurdish culture #Kurdish flag #Kurdish identity #Kurdish language #Language Preservation #Translation Services

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rupelamesopotamia · 6 months

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Kurdistan Flag png vector

#kurd #kurdish #kurdistan #flags

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afooldyedinfolly · 9 months

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Italy?

Italy with a sun???

#sorry I think about this interaction like every day #real reaction a classmate had to the kurdish flag on my shirt. second line was after i told them italy's flag doesn't have a sun on it gnfd

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Baldwin's so damn sweet i keep forgetting that he's supposed to be a yandere lol

Can't wait to see what salauddin is like as a yandere though

Thank u, buff hellokitty

he is such a cutie patootie because you know that niqaab where he embroidered a flower on the sleeve for reader? Guess what else he embroidered in? His name on the inside of the left breast because this way he's closest to your heart.

Honestly Baldwin is such a green flag, i mean this man wakes up and as soon as he's seen you, he gives gold every day to be distributed as charity because he doesnt want you to fall victim to any evil eye (yknow, when people look at you in envy) because in his eyes, youre just too damn perfect.

Did I mention that he needs to have at least 1, if not ALL meals of the day with you? And to melt your heart a little more, Baldwin ensures that you take the first and the last bite of his meal (ofc from his hands. He likes to feed you)

As for Salauddin, well he hosts you two a lot at his place and he pretends to be so disgusted at the way Baldwin looks at u with goo goo eyes, but boy is the Kurdish man JEALOUS because ayo why tf is Baldwin looking so fucking content whenever he's with you? Why does Baldwin's smile and eyes remind him of cool breeze in summer when he looks at you? You cannot possible be that beautiful. But how would Salauddin know for sure because you want to always wear a niqaab and hide your face because "Islam and respecting his traditions" but he knows for a fact that you dont adhere to veiling yourself when you return to jerusalem. His spies told him, and on his inquiry they did tell him that youre not that pretty.

Maybe its the way you talk. You do have the gift of gab and you do tell the most interesting stories. And he does enjoy listening to your religious views too. Youre not- not as conservative as someone would be when they possess such a vast amount of Islamic knowledge- almost as much as his scholars and sufis. No, youre quite... modern, open minded. You really do believe in their being "two sides of the coin". And youre quiet the chess player too and from his last game, it was clear that you werent playing the game... you were playing him.

He doesnt know how, but he for some reason Salauddin knows that you will hurt Baldwin very deeply one day. And it scares him a bit because he doesnt know how the young king will react. He's seen Baldwin on the battlefield, he's seen the way he treats traitors, you do not want to get on his bad side.

Meanwhile Baldwin is just trying to convince Salauddin to be Imam (basically a muslim pastor?) to officiate their nikkah and Salauddin is just telling him shut up.

#yandere baldwin #yandere king baldwin #yandere x darling #male yandere #yandere salauddin #yandere baldwin iv

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I've never made any connections between Worm and the Captain America mythos before. Spill some ink?

Okay, so from a purely aesthetic perspective, the gimme is Miss Militia. She's the most obvious "Captain Patriotic" in the roster, she has the power of GUN, she's the only one who actively buys into the mythology of America specifically. She's a Kurdish woman occupying an aesthetic niche generally held by a rugged squinty white guy. She's an output of the melting pot narrative. She's sort of a rendering of what a grounded superhero who somehow became very aesthetically into America might look like. Not in the craven marketing-driven way of Homelander or Comedian, not in the jingoistic maniac way of USAgent or Peacemaker. She buys it in the broadly left-liberal (USamerican connotation of that term) safe, friendly, reclamative way. Why, what a great rehabilitation of the archetype!

She's also deeply, deeply afraid of rocking the boat. She's got a deepseated childhood trauma related to the bad things that happen when she puts herself in a leadership role. She goes along to get along. When she's proactive, it's usually to point a gun at Tattletale to stop her from upsetting the status quo. She sits through a lot of situations where Steve Rogers, as commonly modeled, would probably plant himself like a tree by the river of truth and go, "Hey, this is fucked up." She more or less capitulates to Undersider domination of the city, in a way that predisposes us to think of her as a voice of reason after all these total nuts that Skitter's been up against- but would Taylor "to relinquish control is a form of ego death" Hebert really be willing to leave someone in charge of the local Protectorate branch who she thought couldn't be corralled? She looks like a beacon, but doesn't- indeed, probably can't- ever truly behave like one. I mean, you can debate the on-the-spot morality of any given one of her judgement calls, that's actually one of the less exhausting Worm Morality Debates to have- but in aggregate, a person in American flag garb who actually meaningfully criticizes the paramilitary organization they're part of is not gonna survive long in that role!

So again, she's the gimme from an aesthetic standpoint. But what I don't really see a lot of discussion of is how Cauldron plays into the riff.

Captain America is institutional, but in a comically morally uncomplicated way. The serum was originally mana from heaven, granted to a living saint, conveniently divorced from any nitty-gritty sausage-making process and even-more conveniently divorced from the horrible consequences of giving the, uh, the U.S government a replicable super soldier process. And in fairness to Captain America, this is 100 percent something the overall mythos eventually patched to my satisfaction; the sausage-making process eventually revealed as prototypical government fuckery driven by human experimentation on black servicemen, the overall Marvel Setting littered with failed attempts by the U.S. Government to recreate that golden goose so they can have their fun new jackboots. (In Ultimate Marvel, this is how almost all contemporary superhumans were created, and this is a state of affairs with a body count in the millions or billions.)

Cauldron draws you in with the same noble rhetoric about greater goods, the same one-off proprietary irreplicable formula- but you don't get the luxury afterwards of representing nothing but the dream. You aren't partnering up with a plucky crank scientist with a heart of gold. You're selling your soul to an organization with an agenda. The narrative makes no bones about the fact that everything you do is fundamentally tainted by the fact you opted into an end product created through torture, kidnapping and human experimentation. You don't get to pull a Kamen Rider by going rogue or opting out or making good use of the fruit of the poisoned tree; you are owned, and everything you do has this Damocles sword hanging over your head- when are the people who bankrolled this going to come to collect?

So that's the question of "who would willingly dress like that" covered, and the question of who creates a serum like that. What about the question of who takes a serum like that? I'd argue that Eidolon is the examination of that. Pre-Cauldron David reads to me like pre-serum Steve Rogers viewed through a significantly bleaker lens. They're both sickly kids desperate to serve, rocketed to the pinnacle of human capability by an experimental procedure. But for Steve Rogers, the crisis was that he had a specific vision of the world and was frustrated by his inability to carry it out. Before the serum he picked fights over what was right and wrong and got his ass handed to him; afterwards he picked those same fights and just started winning instead. The serum neatly solved a problem he had, and to the extent that his mindset is influenced by his pre-serum experiences, it's generally constructive; a desire to protect the weak, help the helpless, an appreciation for people who stand up for what's right even when they're clearly gonna get pancaked for their trouble. So ultimately there's no dark side, downside, or underlying neurosis ascribed to his initial impulse to take that serum.

But with David, it's not a tragic case of the spirit being willing but the flesh being weak. He isn't a preternaturally-noble soul, out to represent the best elements of the American ideal- he kind of represents the inverse, a guy who's been failed at every level while utterly convinced that he's the problem. He's actively suicidal because he's a wheelchair-bound epileptic in an economically-depressed socially-backwards rural town in the 1980s, and he's spent his 18 years of life internalizing the idea that he's worse than useless unless he can somehow find a way provide value to something larger than himself. Doctor Mother finds him in the aftermath of a suicide attempt spurred by his rejection from the army- and he didn't even want to join the army specifically, necessarily, he just needed his situation to be literally anything else, and he took what he thought he could get. And then he finds himself in a position to become a superhero, so he does that, molds himself into that, subordinates himself to that, builds his entire sense of self and values around the value he can provide in that role. No grand design or sacred principles carried over through the metamorphosis. Just relief at finally, finally having something that looks like an answer to the question of what he's supposed to do.

And you know, you know that if Steve Rogers was facing down the barrel of being depowered, he'd smile and nod, he'd Cincinnatus that shit. It's happened before. But for David, the emotional trauma and self-worth issues that caused him to roll the dice on a Steve-Rogers treatment never really went away. When would it? He's been Providing Value as a ten-ton Hammer Against Evil for thirty years. No family, no social life. Certainly, no incentive on his handler's part to lance his Atlas complex. So he barrels towards atrocity in the name of remaining useful. Admittedly, this is where the comparison breaks down in a significant way; Captain America is much more of a symbol than he is an irreplicable powerhouse, so it's not catastrophic if he's taken off the board. Eidolon is so unbelievably powerful that his myopia and self-centeredness actually do align with a real problem everyone else is gonna have if he loses his powers. But in terms of the starting points- I think that Steve Rogers embodies the myth about why you'd want to join the army that badly. Eidolon is, I think, much more closely modelling why you'd actually want to join the army that badly.

#apologies for the delay in responding #worm #wildbow #parahumans #worm meta #eidolon #thoughts #meta #miss militia

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yourdailyqueer · 8 months

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Zhiar Ali

Gender: Male

Sexuality: Gay

DOB: 2 September 1999

Ethnicity: Iraqi - Kurdish

Occupation: Activist, singer, songwriter, journalist

Note: On 16 June 2023, Ali published a redesign of the Kurdistan Pride Flag on Twitter. The design combined elements of the Kurdish flag with the LGBT flag, aiming to celebrate the intersectionality of identities and provide visibility to LGBTQ+ Kurds.

#Zhiar Ali #qmoc #qpoc #lgbt #lgbtq #male #gay #1999 #iraqi #kurdish #poc #asian #middle eastern #activist #singer #songwriter #journalist #popular #popular post

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zvaigzdelasas · 3 months

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[MEI is a Washington DC-based think-tank that receives funding from the UAE, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and other sources]

Northwestern Iran’s West Azerbaijan province, a crucial economic and business corridor between Iran and Turkey, has transformed into a challenging but tempting front for Ankara’s periodic efforts to exploit its points of leverage against Tehran. This region has a mixed population of mainly Sunni Kurds and Shi’a Azerbaijani-Turks; but for decades, the latter ethnic group has dominated the former, facilitated by Tehran’s endorsement of a “divide and rule” policy over this area. By some estimates, Azerbaijani-Turks constitute more than 20 million, or approximately 24% of the total population of Iran.[...]However, [...] Azerbaijani-Turks have been one of the pillars of the Iranian administration for centuries; and in more recent times, members of this community have wielded significant power serving in Iran’s military and the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC).

What is today West Azerbaijan was a birthplace of Kurdish nationalism, the site of the establishment of the first modern Kurdish political party, and where, in 1946, the Soviets helped set up a short-lived Kurdish authority (the Republic of Kurdistan). And yet modern-day Kurds who live here face discrimination on two levels: from the central government in Tehran and from local Azerbaijani-Turkish authorities. As one particularly salient example, when it comes to parliamentary races, many Kurdish candidates approved by Tehran to run for elections are subsequently rejected by the local authorities in West Azerbaijan who are, in some cases, operating independently of Tehran’s reach. Tensions between the province’s main two ethnic groups, thus, stand at an alarming level, particularly in comparison to other areas of the country.[...]

The complex and strained nature of inter-ethnic dynamics in West Azerbaijan province, combined with the close ethnic affinity of Turks and Azerbaijanis, has made the Azerbaijani-Turkish community an important target of outreach for Turkey, despite their religious differences, much to Iran’s concern. The widespread use of satellite dishes and access to Turkish channels since the 1990s have significantly contributed to amplifying Turkey’s soft power among Iranian Azerbaijani-Turks: Many households in northwestern Iran, particularly Azerbaijani-Turks, regularly tune in to Turkish television stations. Moreover, Turkey has been providing growing training and support, with a focus on cultural revival, to Azerbaijani-Turkish activists and journalists in West Azerbaijan through the Turkish consulate in Urmia city. This exposure and public diplomacy fosters awareness of Turkic solidarity as well as contributes to improved proficiency in the Turkish language, leading to an observed increase in Turkish influence since the early 2000s. As a result of this policy, the local Azerbaijani authorities in West Azerbaijan have added Azerbaijani-language toponyms to Farsi street names in the capital city of this province, Urmia. Additionally, the local Azerbaijani authorities push the usage of the Azerbaijani language over Farsi in official meetings, causing tension with Kurds.[...]

Accompanying this Turkish-encouraged and (partially) -facilitated cultural revival is a radicalization of Azerbaijani-Turkish nationalism in this province, which has extended beyond opposition to Kurds to encompass Persians as well. In recent years, during most soccer matches in Azerbaijani-speaking Iranian cities, fans have been seen carrying flags of the Republics of Azerbaijan and Turkey to the stadiums chanting, “Persians, Kurds, and Armenians are Turkish enemies,” which has been echoed in Turkish media.[...]

Against this background, the Kurdish-populated region, which was divided between Iran and Turkey due to wars between the Ottoman and Safavid empires, poses a challenge for Turkey in implementing its Turkic world plan and establishing direct contact with Azerbaijanis in Iran. Most border cities and villages on both sides of Iran and Turkey — much like villages on both sides of Turkey’s borders with Iraq and Syria — have a majority-Kurdish population. And importantly, the Kurds of Iran’s border areas adjacent to Turkey speak the same Kurdish Kurmanji dialect as Turkey’s Kurds, whereas Iranian Kurds who live farther away from the border use the Sorani dialect. Turkey claims members and supporters of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), which has fought an armed insurgency against the Turkish government for the past 40 years, are present in the border cities of Iran’s Kurdistan region and exploit these cross-border kinship and ethno-cultural ties. In 2020, Turkish Interior Minister Süleyman Soylu’ asserted that 100 PKK fighters were present in the northwestern Iranian city of Maku, and warned that if Iran did not remove them, Turkey would act, implicitly calling to mind Turkey’s interventions against Kurdish militant forces in northern Syria.[...]

In July 2022, clashes erupted between Kurdish and Azerbaijani smugglers in Maku. Following the escalation, a group of Azerbaijani-Turks attacked a Kurdish summer-time tent camp in the Avajik Mako area, wielding sticks, clubs, and other weapons, leading to the destruction of the nomadic Kurdish herders’ tents by setting them on fire. Tragically, Azerbaijani attackers killed a 43-year-old Kurd, and in retaliation, the Kurds killed two Azerbaijani-Turks. Subsequently, more than 120 Kurdish nomad families and their 20,000 cattle were evicted or forcibly relocated by local — ethnically Azerbaijani-Turkish — authorities without compensation or explanation. Further enflaming the situation, the incident was reported in Turkey’s Yeni Safak newspaper as supposedly having been sparked by a PKK attack on ethnic Turks in Iran, with accusations that the Iranian government was collaborating with the Kurdish group to ethnically cleanse the area.[...]

Azerbaijani-Turks still dominate most of the high-ranking administrative positions there. Among the four deputy governors — collectively responsible for political, security, and economic affairs, construction, as well as human resources — all are Azerbaijani-Turks. Similarly, out of the 17 administrative offices in the province, 14 are led by Azerbaijani-Turks, with the remaining two held by Kurds and one by a Persian.

Also notably, Iran’s former president, Hassan Rouhani, in his visit to East Azerbaijan in 2019, referred to West Azerbaijan as “Urmia” — the Kurds’ preferred name for this province. [...]

Turkey’s support for Azerbaijanis in Iran within the context of the development of the Turkic world has appeared in the rhetoric of Turkish leaders in recent years. In late 2020, while taking part in a military parade in Baku to commemorate Azerbaijan’s victory over Armenia in their 44-day war over the Karabakh enclave, President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan recited a short poem that symbolically called on all Turks to “liberate” Iran’s West Azerbaijan. The Iranians’ firestorm reaction to that poem prompted the two countries to summon each other’s envoys in Ankara and Tehran. The Turkish foreign minister at the time, Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu, asserted that Erdoğan had been unaware of the sensitivities around the poem [sic] and condemned what he called Tehran’s offensive response.[...]

Shukriya Bradost is a doctoral researcher at Virginia Tech, where she focuses on Middle East security. She has published op-eds and provided commentaries about Middle Eastern geopolitical developments in various global media outlets, including Al Jazeera, Jerusalem Post, Observer, and Iran International.

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heretic-child · 7 months

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palestinian kids with a mural of palestine flag // kurdish kids with a damaged mural of saddam hussein.

iraqi ba’athist regime was supported by palestinian authorities during gulf war which ended up with genocide against kurds known as anfal campaign to arabize them.

regardless of the sides and politics, the real losers of the war is children.

#txt #kurdish #palestinian #palestine #kurdistan

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gsirvitor · 1 month

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For those who don't know, every party in Canada is compromised, however there are individuals in each party that take a stand once in awhile.

Legislative assembly Speaker Ted Arnott recently banned the keffiyeh, the signature terrorist headdress inside Queen’s Park and said people wearing it were making a political statement.

Now, many are saying the keffiyeh is a simple cultural garb, and are saying any objections to people wearing it is Islamophobic, I however am here to enlighten.

The keffiyeh is a cultural headdress, however it is not a uniquely Arab garb, and has many variations that hold different meanings, there's the;

Yazidi keffiyeh

Afghani Keffiyeh

Saudi keffiyeh

Kurdish keffiyeh

And so on.

However, the keffiyeh in question is different, for it has been used since the 1930s as a political symbol, the Palestinian keffiyeh;

Unlike the other keffiyeh, this one is a distinctly patterned black and white keffiyeh, since the beginning of the Israeli–Palestinian conflict, it has been a symbol of Squatter nationalism, dating back to the 1936–1939 Arab revolt.

Now, there is a red variant of this, which is a Communist version, don't really need to explain why that's political.

Anyway, now onto why it was banned, you cannot wear political symbols in Queen's Park, rainbow flags, trans flags, communist pins/flags, libertarian pins/flags, ethnic solidarity symbols etc etc, the keffiyeh, as it has been used by protesters in Canada, and globally, is a political symbol along these lines, hence why it was banned.

I fully support the ban.

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kurja-tales · 14 hours

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I don’t know how to become one with you.

If you’re heaven, then tell me.

I will kneel to every god.

If you’re hell, then tell me.

I will fill the earth with sin.

I don’t know how to become one with you.

If you’re an invaded soil, then tell me.

I will make my skin your flag.

If you are, as I am, a gypsy,

draw a border around me:

make me your country.

— Abdulla Pashew, “Union.” Translated by

Words without Borders: Kurdish Literature. January 2014.

#poetry aesthetic #poems on tumblr #love poem

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scottishcommune · 6 months

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Analysis, Nov 27th Last night, the Kurdish People’s Democratic Assembly in Haringey, London, was subject to nothing short of an aggressive invasion by the police. There were no warrants and no legitimate reason for the aggression and violence that they conducted themselves with against a community of civilians celebrating a cultural event. This invasion by the Metropolitan Police comes only two days after UK defence minister Grant Shapps and Turkish counterpart Yaşar Güler held a meeting agreeing to “enhance” defence and security cooperation. As a result of foreign influence on parliament, we are seeing an increase in the number of people within our communities being arrested through the liberally applied ‘Schedule 7 of the Terrorism Act‘ (2000), including last week when our community was subject to another aggressive display by the police as they swarmed a small protest, outnumbering the protesters themselves and separating parents from the children, then interrogating them in front of their helpless and crying children. There is also the upcoming trial of Mark Campbell and a Kurdish asylum seeker, ‘Berîtan’, on the 17th and 18th of January, who will face trial for holding a Kurdish flag during a protest.

We must also highlight that this year is also 100 years since Kurdistan was divided by the Sykes-Picot agreement. Since that agreement, the Kurdish people have been subject to continuous attempts of ethnic cleansing, genocide, and ecocide by Iran, Iraq, Syria, and Turkey, including the Dersim Massacre, the Anfal Genocide Campaign, the Yazidi Genocide, etc. As a result, many civilians are forced to seek asylum in the UK and elsewhere. Yet what we are seeing is that, despite Turkey’s support for the ISIS insurgency in North and East Syria, the ethnic cleansing they have committed in Afrîn, and their heinous violations of human rights in Turkish prisons, as members of NATO, Grant Shapps and the UK government would have us believe that they are valuable allies whose “influence cannot be underestimated.” The Kurdish People’s Democratic Assembly invites all ethnic, religious, and cultural communities and organisations across the UK to unite with us to prevent the criminalisation of communities, mainly through the misuse of the Terrorism Act. The Metropolitan Police should not be a ‘for hire’ mercenary service to do the bidding of foreign dictatorships, and UK politicians must not be able to use the means of the justice system to advance their own political agendas. Long Live the Democratic Resistance Biji Berxwedan ~ Kurdish People’s Democratic Assembly Britain

#uk pol #free kurdistan #biji ypj #biji ypg #rojava #democratic confederalism #communalism #acab

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guerillas-of-history · 1 year

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Revolutionary Kurdish youth in Istanbul, May Day, 2015

Behind them is the flag of the left-wing People's Democratic Party (HDP) a pro-minority political party.

In the aftermath of the 2016 coup attempt, many of the parties leaders and members have been imprisoned. The ruling AKP party also accuses the HDP of being linked to the outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) subsequently the party was nearly banned, but won its prohibition case.

#kurdistan #turkey #genocide #photography

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isitandwonder · 2 years

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Sanandaj last night.

The woman is wrapped in the Kurdish flag

#mahsa amini #jîna amini #iranprotests #iran revolution

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ritchiepage2001newaccount · 3 months

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Project2025 #CorpMedia #Oligarchs #MegaBanks vs #Union #Occupy #NoDAPL #BLM #SDF #DACA #MeToo #Humanity #FeelTheBern

JinJiyanAzadi #BijiRojava [VIDEO] ISIS 'caliphate' near collapse as most of Raqqa taken by U.S.-backed forces [UPDATES]

The end for the Islamic State's self-proclaimed caliphate is near, three years after the terrorist group announced its vision for creating a nation state across Iraq, Syria and the wider region…

RELATED UPDATE: Rise and fall of Isis: its dream of a caliphate is over, so what now?

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RELATED UPDATE: Insurgents Again: The Islamic State’s Calculated Reversion to Attrition in the Syria-Iraq Border Region and Beyond

RELATED UPDATE: No Longer Under ISIS Control, How Has Raqqa Changed?

RELATED UPDATE: A REVIEW OF ISIS IN SYRIA 2016 – 2019 - Regional Differences and an Enduring Legacy

RELATED UPDATE: Jin - Jiyan - Azadi « Women, Life, Freedom

https://phmuseum.com/submissions/jin-jiyan-azadi-women-life-freedom

RELATED UPDATE: November 29, 2023; The anniversary of the government killing of Ebrahim Sharifi-Far, one of the martyrs of the revolutionary uprising of Jin, Jiyan, Azadi in Bokan

RELATED UPDATE: Sardasht; Barzin Hamzezadeh, one of the Kurdish children arrested in the Jin, Jiyan, Azadi movement, died as a result of injuries caused by torture

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ya-world-challenge · 11 months

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Book Review: Yazidi! graphic novel (🇮🇶 Iraq)

[image 1: book cover: a brown-skinned, brown-haired girl age 7-10 walks along a desert road where trucks with armed men and ISIL flags pass. She looks back with fear at the approaching shadow of a man with a rifle; image 2: map showing Iraq; image 3: a Yazidi temple in Sreshka, Iraq - a tan brick structure with a conical dome is surrounded by a stone wall with intricate art.]

Yazidi!

Author: Aurélien Ducoudray; Illustrator: Mini Ludvin

YA World Challenge book for 🇮🇶 Iraq

Review

Yazidi! tells the story of Zéré, a young girl in the Kurdish area of Iraq. She and her family are followers of an ancient faith, who for centuries have been persecuted by various groups for their beliefs.

The story is set against the backdrop of ISIL's invasions of the region in 2014, and their genocide against the Yazidi people. The graphic novel declines to show the most horrific parts of ISIL's terror on-page. Rather, it can be felt through the fear in people's eyes, the relatives who never return, the terror of women and children who wait to be sold as slaves. It also doesn't give us a documentary-like overview, but rather drops us right into the world.

The art is beautiful and features soft lines and subtle colors, the big-eyed characters reflecting the innocence with which Zéré and her sister and cousins see the world. Smartphones, tween crushes, and loving girl-dads put the story firmly in our time with real, relatable people, unsettling against the barbarism of the terrorists. Throughout the story and despite the horror and betrayals, Zéré never loses her determination - a mirror of the sad reality that the Yazidi people have had to face.

Definitely pick this up for the beautiful art and the education.

Other reps: #yazidism (faith)

Genres: #war #current events #family

★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 5 stars

#book review #yazidi #iraq #ya world challenge #booklr #bookblr #graphic novels #other faiths #war #survival #family #current events #middle east

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usafphantom2 · 8 months

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F-35 fighters leave the Middle East after deployment to deter Iran and Russia

Fernando Valduga By Fernando Valduga 10/07/2023 - 14:44 in Military, War Zones

The U.S. Air Force F-35 Lightning II stealth fighters, sent to the Middle East to prevent Iranian aggression in the Persian Gulf and react to Russian intimidation in the Syrian skies, have left the region, according to service officials.

"What the F-35s did was give us additional capacity," said the commander of the Air Force Central (AFCENT), Lieutenant General Alexus G. Grynkewich, to reporters on October 4 at a Defense Writers Group event.

The deployment was completed in late September, according to the 388ª Fighter Wing at Hill Air Base, Utah. All aircraft have left the Middle East and are "in transit home," according to a spokesman for the 388th Fighter Wing.

Operating as the 421º Air Expeditionary Squadron, the F-35 were first deployed on July 26, when fifth-generation fighters were rushed to the region by the Pentagon after Iranian attacks on commercial ships around the Strait of Hormuz, the strategic bottleneck between the Persian Gulf and the Gulf of Oman, through which 20% of the world's oil flows.

Additional U.S. Navy ships, led by the Bataan Amphibious Ready Group with thousands of Marines, followed the F-35. The amphibious assault ship USS Bataan brought more air power to the region with a squadron of short or vertical takeoff and landing Harriers (V/STOL).

The US still has the F-16 and A-10 in the region. However, the stealthy F-35 provided more advanced capabilities.

The F-35 allowed the U.S. to “continue to carry out the missions we were carrying out in Iraq and Syria and elsewhere in the region, and to increase what we were doing in support of the Navy, basically doing air combat patrols over the Strait of Hormuz,” said Grynkewich, who added that the Navy's detachment was particularly important.

“This increase in surface ships combined with our air power has dissuaded Iran from taking any action against maritime transport,” he said.

In addition to their mission in the Gulf, the F-35 were useful in discouraging Russian warplanes from chasing American aircraft in Syria. The F-35 also joined the U.S. allies in Syria, including flying with French Rafale fighters.

Russia's aggressive tactics emerged as a major concern in July, when Russian fighters launched flags that damaged U.S. MQ-9 drones that were carrying out missions against Islamic State militants.

After the U.S. released the video of Russian harassment and deployed the F-35, Russia moderated its tactics and became less aggressive.

"They still fly in airspace, but not directly above our forces, so I welcome this change in behavior," Grynkewich said. "With the flags being released on our MQ-9, we no longer see this behavior."

The U.S. military presence in the region is very modest compared to the years when Americans fought in Iraq and Afghanistan. But U.S. air operations over Syria were also reinforced by coalition partners, including the French and British.

“We are still at risk of terrorist attacks in our capitals or on our lands,” General Stéphane Mille, head of the French Air and Space Force, told journalists in September. "We are flying together."

Not all the challenges that the U.S. has faced come from opponents. Turkey, also a member of NATO, has been attacking Kurdish groups in northern Syria, which is responsible for a bomb attack in the capital Ankara on October 1, in operations that may put American troops at risk.

On the morning of October 5, a Turkish drone hit targets within a restrictive operating zone (ROZ) declared by the U.S. military, according to the Pentagon. The attacks reached one kilometer from U.S. forces, forcing them to protect themselves in bunkers.

When a Turkish drone returned to the area about four hours later and headed for U.S. forces, it was shot down by a U.S. F-16 half a kilometer away from U.S. personnel in an act of self-defense, according to U.S. authorities.

On October 6, the Turkish Ministry of Foreign Affairs minimized the episode in a statement, saying that its drone “was lost due to different technical evaluations in the conflict resolution mechanism with third parties”.

The biggest concern, however, remains Iran. Despite the departure of the F-35, which Grynkewich observed has always been planned to be “temporary”, the U.S. is prepared to flex forces for the region.

“My opinion is that the deterrence is temporal,” Grynkewich said of Iran. “We have increased strength in response to a specific threat. This shows the American commitment to the region. This shows that our American strategy has been, with our posture being less than before, we demonstrate the commitment to bring strength to great exercises for guarantee purposes or when a threat required it. And we certainly did that in this case."

Source: Air Force & Space Magazine

Tags: Military AviationF-35 Lightning IIUSAF - United States Air Force / U.S. Air ForceWar Zones - Middle East

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Fernando Valduga

Aviation photographer and pilot since 1992, he has participated in several events and air operations, such as Cruzex, AirVenture, Daytona Airshow and FIDAE. He has work published in specialized aviation magazines in Brazil and abroad. Uses Canon equipment during his photographic work throughout the world of aviation.