TY - SER AU - Jawad al-Tamimi, Aymenn TI - The Islamic State and the Kurds: : the Documentary Evidence KW - Estado Islámico KW - Documentos - KW - Redacción KW - Kurdistán N2 - Drawing in part on internal Islamic State documents, this article aims to provide a new and more nuanced understanding of how the Islamic State has dealt with Kurds. Though the Islamic State is often characterized as being inherently anti-Kurdish, the organization has recruited Kurds and directed messaging toward Kurdish audiences. At the same time, internal documents in particular show the tensions between realities on the ground for Kurdish communities that lived under Islamic State control and the organization’s ideology that is, in theory, blind to ethnicity UR - https://ctc.usma.edu/v2/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/CTC-Sentinel_Vol10Iss8-14.pdf ER -