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How Turkey and Damascus Engineered a Kurdish Defeat
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Syrian government forces swiftly moved to consolidate control over key oil fields and the city of Raqqa on Monday, following a dramatic weekend...
Syrian Forces Capture Key Oil and Gas Fields in Strategic Eastern Advance
Syrian troops have captured the Omar oil field and the Conoco gas field in the Deir Zor province, which are crucial for the U....
Syria, Kurdish forces race to salvage integration deal
Syrian, Kurdish and U.S. officials are intensifying talks ahead of a year-end deadline to show progress on a stalled agreement to integrate Kurdish-led forces...
The End of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party’s Struggle: A Victory for Erdoğan’s Neo-Ottomanism?
This article will discuss the political context and strategic implications of the dissolution of the Partiya Karkerên Kurdistanê (PKK) as a development that reconstructs...
The Echoes of the Good Friday Agreement: The Turkish-Kurdish Peace Process
The recent announcement by the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) to disarm could mark the closing salvo of its four-decade insurgency against the Turkish state....
U.S. Diplomats on Syria Dismissed Amid Pro-Damascus Policy Shift
Recently, several senior U. S. diplomats focused on Syria have been removed from their positions. This change comes as the U. S. aims to...
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...
PKK Dissolution and Turkey’s Kurdish Question
The long and bloody saga of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) has seemingly reached a pivotal juncture with the organization's long-anticipated announcement of its...
Kurdish Autonomy: The Key to Turkish Unity?
In a geopolitically turbulent world, Turkey has the transformative opportunity to address long-standing grievances and foster national unity.Granting autonomy to Kurdish regions, along the...