Forward this article to your email lists. Crosspost on your blog site, internet forums. etc. . Featured image: The leader of the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces, General Mazloum Abdi. ..…
Ankara views the YPG as terrorists linked to Kurdish insurgents operating in southeast Turkey. . This article has been adapted from its original source. . . ..…
Syrian Kurdish forces say . they killed close al-Baghdadi aide . Associated Press, by Sarah El Deeb . Original Article . Posted By: LittleHoodedMonk, 10/28/2019 11:10:25 AM . ..…
Related Article s . U.S. official: IS leader believed dead in U.S. military assault . Islamic State supporters escape in Syria, as Turkish and Kurdish forces clash and the U.S. pulls back troops . ..…
Latif Tas Latif Tas is Marie Sklodowska-Curie Fellow at SOAS, University of London. ..…
So had Turkey invoked Article 5, Washington would have been obligated to join its Turkish and FSA “allies” in attacking its Kurdish/SDF “allies”; or in the alternative, had Washington invoked Article 5 – presumably Turkey would have been obligated to make war on itself! ..…
Syrians consider the Kurds who have remained loyal to Syria as their fellow Syrian brothers and sisters and the descriptions of Kurdish treachery in this article do not apply to them. . . ..…
In order to understand the reason why Donald Trump acquiesced in the face of Turkish onslaught against Kurds Syria, Syria analyst Hassan Hassan came up with in his recent article for The Guardian.. According to Syrian, the in Kurdish areas was part of Russian- Turkish understanding about..…
Late Sunday, the Syrian Democratic Forces, said they had struck a deal with the Assad government that would allow government forces to enter the Kurdish-controlled northeast of Syria for the first time in years. The commander of the S.D.F. wrote an article for Foreign Policy that explained..…
BEIRUT ANKARA - Russia-backed Syrian forces wasted no in taking advantage of U.S retreat from Syria on Monday, deploying Kurdish-held territory south of Turkish frontier less than 24 hours after Washington announced full withdrawal.. ..…
The Syrian civil war, which scarred so many parts of the country but left many Kurdish areas relatively unscathed, now looms over those areas—and the Americans who once patrolled with their Kurdish partners are leaving. . This article is adapted from Seth J. Frantzman’s book, After..…
In this photo taken from Turkish side of the border between Turkey and Syria, Akcakale, Sanliurfa province, southeastern Turkey, smoke billows from targets Tel Abyad, Syria, during bombardment by Turkish forces, Friday, Oct 11, 2019. ..…
Turkey has already carried out two cross-border offensives into Syria, including one in 2018 that saw it and allied Syria rebels overrun the majority Kurdish Afrin enclave in the northwest. . Share this article . . . . Many Syrians displaced by fighting elsewhere in the country have fled to..…
But as I discuss in a new National Interest Online article, it is hardly unprecedented. The United States has had a long history of forging alliances with Kurdish factions throughout the Middle East, only to jettison those alliances when they proved inconvenient. ..…
Kurdish parties Kirkuk, except for Kurdistan Democratic Party, met Aug 26 to reject holding in the disputed areas, citing Article 140 of the constitution.. ..…
Correction: Jul 24, 2019 An earlier version of this article misidentified the Turkish writer and sociologist Ismail Besikci. He is not Kurdish. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ..…
The following information and assessments are based upon the author's first-hand observations from his March 2006 visit to Kurdish camps on Mount Qandil. Part 1 of this article can be . . The following information and assessments are based upon the author's first-hand observations from his..…
FILE PHOTO Masrour Barzani, head of Iraqi Kurdish region's Security Council, casts his vote during Kurds Erbil, Iraq September 25, 2017. ..…
Independent media organizations tend to present a Syrian identity rather than a pan-Kurdish one (we will explore this aspect in more depth in the third article of this series). They broadcast or write in Arabic, even more than Kurdish, and sometimes in other languages spoken in the..…
Turkey and Kurds have been fighting war against each other, starting when the foundation of Kurdish state failed to eventuate after World War 1. The war against Kurds is sort of article of faith for Turkey's hardliners, and that alone seems to be the primary driving force behind this..…
His first article on these themes, The Stepchildren of Kurdistan, was translated into Kurmanji, the dialect of Kurdish KDP controlled areas, and sent to KDP asayish, or intelligence forces, by researchers at Moshe Dayan Center, foreign-policy think tank associated with Israeli state. ..…
“U.S. troops will not leave northeastern Syria until Islamic State militants are defeated and American-allied Kurdish fighters are protected,” a top White House aide is quoted as saying. The article also notes that Bolton was “signaling a pause to a withdrawal abruptly announced last..…
The Iraqi Kurds' initial enthusiasm following the massive victory of the 'yes' vote (at over 92 percent in favor of independence) on September 25 quickly gave way to multiple threats and military offensives against the autonomous territories under the control of the Kurdish Regional Government (KRG,..…
Ahmed Rasheed and Raya Jalabi, “Iraqi court rules Kurdish independence vote unconstitutional,” Reuters, November 20, 2017, available at https://www.reuters.com/article/us-mideast-crisis-iraq-kurds/iraqi-court-rules-kurdish-independence-vote-unconstitutional-idUSKBN1DK0Q6. . .....…
Article 140 of the 2005 constitution, which the Kurdish parties were instrumental in drafting, lays out a process for resolving the disputed territories’ status with the aim of drawing a permanent boundary between the Kurdish federal region and the rest of Iraq. ... That was a red line..…
Turkey exerted its political and economic pressure on Iraq's Kurdistan Regional Government to close the headquarters of political parties that share the ideology of Kurdistan Workers Party.. ..…
ISTANBUL - The European Court of Human Rights urged Turkey on Tuesday to process the legal case of the ex-head of pro-Kurdish opposition, saying his pre-trial detention had gone on longer than could be justified... ..…
Altan criticized the government and the in June 14, 2016 article he wrote about in Kurdish southeast and military operations in the region. ..…
A court in the southeastern Turkish city of Van sentenced Mehmet Dursun, a former report Pro-Kurdish Dicle News Agency (DİHA), to two years and six months in prison on charges of “defaming the security agencies” in a 2014 article alleging security forces harassed “village guards” – local..…
Saddam's 2003 overthrow opened the prospect of reunifying the country, and Iranian subversion, using Iraq's Shia majority to turn the country into its satellite, refueled Kurdish separatism.. Bolton was in the article, that Iraqi Kurds do not deserve to be lumped in the category as PKK....…
The Iraqi Kurdish people, in their ongoing fight to become nation, must learn from the similar history of suffering and persecution experienced by Jews argued Kurdish in opinion article Monday.. ..…
An article in the British Guardian newspaper on October 20 outlining the role of Kurdish Peshmerga soldiers in the US-led assault on Mosul, Iraq’s second largest city, noted that British, Australian and New Zealand elite SAS commandos “are active in northern Iraq, along with US forces,..…