The Jerusalem Post: From Afrin to Kirkuk, Kurds suffered grievously under Trump – analysis
Among the people in the world who have suffered the most under the Trump administration are Kurds...
[read full article]Al Jazeera: What Biden can and cannot do for the Kurds
Biden may have sympathies for the Kurdish cause, but as US president, he will not always act...
[read full article]Iran threatens US Kurdish allies in Iraq
Pro-Iranian paramilitary groups are upping their threats against the autonomous Kurdistan region in Iraq after months of...
[read full article]How to Stop Erdogan
Turkey’s authoritarian president poses an active danger to Western interests. He must be contained. In the early...
[read full article]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...
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