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Masrour Barzani’s Policy Is Undermining Kurdistan’s Political Future
Iraqi Kurdistan spent decades fighting to escape the political control of others. Its emergence as a federal region with its own government, parliament, and...
Post-Saddam Iraq at 23: The War It Never Wanted Is Back
On the anniversary of the 2003 invasion, Iraq finds itself trapped between the same external powers that have defined — and destroyed — its...
Israel Allegedly Backs Iranian Kurdish Militias in Border Land Grab
Israel is conducting airstrikes in western Iran to support Iranian Kurdish militias, who aim to take advantage of the ongoing U. S.-Israeli war with...
Trump’s Call to Kurdish Militias Signals Dangerous New Phase in Iran War
The widening war involving Donald Trump, Iran, and Israel has entered a volatile new phase as the United States openly entertains the possibility of...
The Kurds: A Century-Long Struggle for Rights and Land
The Kurds, an ethnic group scattered across the mountains of Turkey, Iran, Iraq, Syria and Armenia, have been left stateless for more than a...
Fragile US-Brokered Ceasefire in Syria Nears ‘Make or Break’ Moment
A U. S.-backed ceasefire agreement in northeastern Syria has left significant questions unanswered as the Kurds aim to keep some power despite a weakened...
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...