Wall Street Journal: The Cost of Betraying Syria’s Kurds
I returned this year from military service in northeastern Syria, where the U.S. has supported local Kurdish,...
[read full article]Bloomberg: Trump Courts Catastrophe in Syria Islamic State is not defeated, and a U.S. withdrawal would be an abandonment of Kurdish allies.
President Donald Trump is on the verge of making a spectacularly bad decision. The White House is...
[read full article]The Jerusalem Post: Can these Kurdish fighters help the U.S. out of a crisis in Syria?
The long, lonely road from Dohuk in the Kurdistan region to Sinjar, the site of the ISIS...
[read full article]The Times of Israel: Kurdistan: Betrayed by the West
As the geopolitical tectonic plates of the Middle East continue to shift and collide, Kurdistan remains an...
[read full article]Bahar T. Eskander, JFK Student Ambassador on “The takeover of Kirkuk”
"The Takeover of Kirkuk" was written by Justice for Kurds Student Ambassador Bahar T. Eskander, Master's student...
[read full article]Brookings: Can Iraq’s new leadership win (and keep) the peace?
Iraq now has a new government in place, six months after holding elections against a backdrop of...
[read full article]Rudaw: After years of silence, music fills streets of Iraq’s Mosul
MOSUL, Iraq – For centuries, it was a magnet for artists across the region and churned out...
[read full article]France 24: European court urges Turkey to free pro-Kurdish leader
STRASBOURG (FRANCE) (AFP) - The European Court of Human Rights on Tuesday called on Turkey to release pro-Kurdish...
[read full article]Kurdistan 24: Bernard-Henri Levy honored for ‘Peshmerga’ and ‘The Battle of Mosul’
WASHINGTON DC (Kurdistan24) – The French writer, philosopher, and film director, Bernard-Henri Levy, was honored in Washington...
[read full article]The Wall Street Journal: ISIS Overlooks a Synagogue in Mosul
In the fall of 2016 I began filming a documentary about the battle to retake Mosul from...
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