Valdai: Understanding Political Settlement Between Damascus and the Kurds
After Donald Trump’s controversial but predictable decision to withdraw American troops from northeast Syria in October, followed...
[read full article]PRI: Who are the Kurds? Interview with Shivan Fazil, Justice for Kurds Student Ambassador
For Syria's Kurds, US President Donald Trump's announcement that US troops would pull out of northeastern Syria felt like a...
[read full article]Two years later, John McCain’s words still ring true: “I Choose the Kurds”
Nearly two years ago, to the day, the late Senator John McCain penned a powerful op-ed in The New York Times supporting the Kurds as Kirkuk was invaded by Iranian and Iraqi forces, following the 2017 referendum. The silence from the West, particularly the United States, was deafening. The scents of betrayal and shame, regretfully, have not dissipated and today, we are faced with the devastating news of...
[read full article]The Hill: The US cannot neglect Kurdistan, a pillar of its Middle East strategy and stability
Amid tensions with Iran and challenges facing U.S. foreign policy in the Middle East, the Kurdistan autonomous...
[read full article]Algemeiner: An Inside Look at the Struggle Against ISIS
Below is an excerpt from Seth J. Frantzman’s After ISIS: America, Iran and the Struggle for the Middle East (Gefen Publishing, Jerusalem, 2019) After a short drive, past buildings and walls pockmarked with mortar fragments, we reached the berm. Using bulldozers, the Kurds had built up a long berm stretching from Telskuf toward the south. Every hundred or so meters, they put sandbagged positions, a few tents for sleeping quarters,...
[read full article]National Geographic: TODAY, THE KURDS ARE SPREAD ACROSS FOUR NATIONS. WHO ARE THEY?
If you can't point to Kurdistan on a map, you’re not alone: It’s not a sovereign country. But...
[read full article]AFP: Budget, pétrole… Bagdad et Erbil peuvent-elles s’entendre?
Bagdad et le Kurdistan en crise économique ont repris ces dernières semaines les négociations autour du pétrole et de la part du budget allouée à la région autonome, deux litiges anciens dont la résolution reste incertaine pour les experts. Sur quoi porte le désaccord? Les relations, tendues depuis des années, se sont encore refroidies en 2014. Alors que le pays faisait face à une percée jihadiste, le Kurdistan...
[read full article]Washington Institute: Gorran and the End of Populism in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq
After months of back and forth, the leading parties of the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG)—the Kurdistan Democratic...
[read full article]Orient XXI: Kirkouk. La déroute des partis kurdes irakiens
Le 16 octobre 2017 est appelé « la catastrophe » au sein de la société kurde irakienne. Une plaie ouverte. Ce...
[read full article]Journal of Bioterrorism & Biodefense: Independence of Iraqi Kurdistan, Iran’s National Security and Possible Scenarios
Abstract From 1991 to today, the debate on the independence of the Kurdistan region of Iraq has...
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