Temperate grassland. Temperate grasslands are characterized as having grasses as the dominant vegetation. Trees and large shrubs are absent. Temperatures vary more from summer to winter, and the amount of rainfall is less in temperate grasslands than in savannas.rasslands are characterized as lands dominated by grasses rather than large shrubs or trees. In the Miocene and Pliocene Epochs, which spanned a period of about 25 million years, mountains rose in western North America and created a continental climate favorable to grasslands.
Al-Anfal and the Genocide of Iraqi Kurds, 1988. The al-Anfal campaign in 1988 was a genocidal military operation led by Saddam Hussein's Baâathist regime against the ethnic Kurds of northern Iraq.A Critical Guide to the Iraqi High Tribunalâs Anfal Judgement: A Genocide Against the Kurds.â Michigan Journal of International Law 30, no. 2 (2009): 305-412. Travis, Hannibal. Genocide in the Middle East: The Ottoman Empire, Iraq, and Sudan. Durham, NC: Carolina Academic Press, 2010.
Erdogan expects that the Syrian Kurds, whose advance against ISIS has been helped by airstrikes from the U.S.-led coalition, will go on to form their own state as Syria disintegrates after more than four years of war. PYD leader Saleh Muslim denied that Syriaâs Kurds intend to do this.