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• n  a geographical area of fertile land in the Middle East stretching in a broad semicircle from the Nile to the Tigris and Euphrates

• Fertile Crescent

News & Articles

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• Commentary: Kurds Emerge from embers of Syrian war
  More than 200,000 Syrian Kurdish refugees have moved into Iraqi Kurdistan. They have crossed an international border to be sure, yet it is, in the Kurdish world view, a passage from one part of their homeland to another. The Kurds disregard these frontiers, imposed on the Fertile Crescent almost a century ago by Anglo-French power.
  Nov. 5, 2013 - Santa Fe New Mexican