Saddam-era officer confesses to parading Kurds in cages
Iraqi authorities released a video of the confession of Jamal al-Mashadani, a Saddam Hussein-era intelligence officer who later became a senior member of the so-called Islamic State.
Iraqi authorities released a video of the confession of Jamal al-Mashadani, a Saddam Hussein-era intelligence officer who later became a senior member of the so-called Islamic State.
A small group gathered at Erbil’s Shanadar Gallery to commemorate 73 years since Jewish Kurds were exiled first to Baghdad and then to Israel in 1948.
Kurdish leader highlighted the ongoing challenges of fighting IS after the groups’ 2017 military defeat in Iraq.
A Kurdish Jew who made aliyah to Israel from the northern Iraqi city of Halabja in 1953 returned to his birthplace on Sunday for the first time.
“These kind of meetings are of great importance to create a common understanding.”
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