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Kurdish Disarmament Reshapes Dynamics in Turkey, Syria, Iraq, and Iran—but Uncertainty Remains
After more than forty years of armed struggle, a Kurdish-linked group, the PKK, in northern Iraq has begun disarming—a dramatic gesture that signals a...
Erasing Assyrians: The Kurdish Nationalist Project
The Assyrians, an indigenous people with over 6,775 years of history and one of the world’s earliest Christian communities, are vanishing from their ancestral...
Iraq on Edge: The Regional Fallout from Syria’s Unraveling
The abrupt collapse of the Assad regime in Syria has sent shockwaves across the region, placing Iraq on high alert. As Syria embarks on...
Fulfilling Broken Promises: Building a Semiautonomous Region in Sunni Iraq
Systemic Failures: Marginalization of Sunni Arabs in Iraq
Iraq's political, social, and economic failures of the last 21 years are deeply rooted in one stark...
Trump’s Second Term and the Middle East: A Forecast of Challenges and Opportunities
On November 6, 2024, Donald Trump secured victory in Wisconsin, surpassing the required 270 electoral votes, confirming him as the 47th president of the...
Recent Trends: Revolution in Military Affairs in PLA post-gulf war?
“A war that changed the world ultimately changed the war itself.” Unrestricted Warfare
The first Gulf War lasted only 42 days, with extensive aerial bombardment,...
OPEC receives compensation plans for overproduction from Iraq, Kazakhstan, Russia
The Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) Secretariat said Wednesday that it received compensation plans from Iraq, Kazakhstan and Russia for their overproduced...
KDP and PUK: Outdated Political Party Model
After the establishment of the Kurdistan Region's de facto state in 1991, and following the 1992 parliamentary and governmental elections in the Kurdistan Region,...
The Political distrust in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq
The Kurdistan Region is living in a deep crisis of distrust, which is reflected in the lack of trust in the administrative, political and...
Iraq’s “Development Road”: Rough Terrain Ahead
Meeting in Baghdad on April 22, Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shia‘ al-Sudani and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, the latter making his first visit...