New York Times: At Tennessee Titans Games, the Fiercest Tailgaters Are Kurds
Nashville’s big Kurdish community has fallen hard for football, and parking-lot feasts that feature biryani but no...
[read full article]Algemeiner: A Kurdish Campaign to Boycott Turkey
It is a story that strikes a chord with anyone familiar with the struggle for civil rights in the American South. Jwnaid Murad, a businessman in Iraqi Kurdistan, has decided that he will no longer sell Turkish products in his supermarket in the town of New Erbil in response to growing calls among Iraqi Kurds for a boycott of Turkey because of Ankara’s onslaught against fellow Kurds in...
[read full article]Voice of America news: Chances Growing Captured Islamic State Fighters Will Return to Battlefield
U.S. counterterrorism officials are increasingly worried Islamic State fighters captured as the terror group's caliphate collapsed in...
[read full article]Reuters: Kurds tell EU: Get tough with Turkey or face Islamic State fighters
LONDON (Reuters) - The European Union could face a wave of returning battle-hardened Islamic State fighters from...
[read full article]The New York Times: Europeans Bewildered as Trump Stomps Off
The spectacle of an American president breaking trust with NATO allies as he tries to avoid impeachment is hard...
[read full article]Rudaw: The Islam the West ‘desperately’ seeks can be found in Kurdistan, says a French intellectual
ERBIL, Kurdistan Region — Kurds follow a moderate, democratic Islam which western countries have been "desperately" looking for, a...
[read full article]The New York Review of Books: The Betrayal of the Kurds
The full consequences of President Trump’s decision on October 6 to withdraw American troops and give Turkish...
[read full article]The San Diego Union-Tribute: Local Kurdish-Americans are calling for congressional action in Syria
They are encouraging senators to impose sanctions on Turkey after their invasions in northern Syria. It’s a...
[read full article]Al-Monitor: Is the PKK worried by the YPG’s growing popularity?
The past month has seen mind-boggling developments in northern Syria involving the Kurdish Democratic Union Party (PYD) and its military wing, the People's Protection Units (YPG). For Ankara, the most glaring unintended consequence of the now static Operation Peace Spring is the newfound legitimacy of the YPG in Western public opinion. The YPG is an offshoot of the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), which Turkey, the United States and many...
[read full article]Rudaw: President Barzani: PKK struggle for legitimacy led to Turkish operation at expense of Syrian Kurds
ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - President of the Kurdistan Region Nechirvan Barzani said on Tuesday that the Kurdistan...
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