Through secret treaties, like Sykes-Picot, Britain and France divided up the region into separate states ruled by hand-picked Arab potentates. They artificially separated peoples, recognizing some with nation states and dismissing others like the Kurds, who were consequently subject to..…

He courted the Kurds by granting small reforms and avoiding bombing Kurdish areas in order to sever unity between Arabs and Kurds. At the same time, some aspects of the Syrian opposition, particularly the Syrian National Council, adhered to Arab chauvinism and refused to support Kurdish..…

CPs of Syria, Lebanon, Iraq, and Jordan issued joint statement in 1964 calling for unity and cooperation between all the patriotic and democratic trends and all the national forces of Arab liberation movement.. By association the war against the, Similarly, Iraqi Communist Party aligned with..…