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  • 22 Jan 2020
    • United States
    • Iran
    • Iraq
    • Kurdistan

    The Kurds are again caught in the crossfire, now between US and Iran

    Lauren Williams
    Yet the Kurds may gamble to play the two adversaries off against each other to finally achieve an independent state.
  • 28 Oct 2019
    • Global Issues
    • Syria
    • Kurdistan
    • Türkiye

    The worrying precedent of Turkey’s “safe zone”

    Rebecca Barber
    Under international law, one country cannot invade another to seize territory – yet that appears to have been endorsed.
  • 23 Jan 2018
    • Syria
    • The Trump Presidency
    • Kurdistan
    • Türkiye

    Washington's weak hand to play in Syria

    Rodger Shanahan
    US policy in Syria is full of holes without a strategic plan for once the mission to defeat ISIS concludes.
  • 27 Oct 2017
    • Iraq
    • Kurdistan

    The ongoing plight of the Yazidis

    Nikki Marczak , Susan Hutchinson
    The plight of the ever-persecuted Yazidis remains as dire – and as invisible – as ever.
  • 27 Oct 2017
    • Syria
    • Iraq
    • Kurdistan
    • Türkiye

    Kurds aren’t always the good guys

    Rodger Shanahan
    Foreign fighters who join armed Kurdish groups become hostage to their political agenda.
  • 24 Oct 2017
    • Iraq
    • Kurdistan

    Worst enemy: Kurdistan’s history of infighting

    Lydia Khalil
    The Kurds may like to say they have no friends but the mountains, but their family has a history of letting them down too.
  • 18 Oct 2017
    • Iraq
    • Kurdistan

    Kurdistan’s strategic overreach

    Rodger Shanahan
    Holding a provocative, quixotic and externally friendless referendum was an unnecessary risk for the Kurds to take, for very little return.
  • 17 Oct 2017
    • Syria
    • Iran
    • Iraq
    • Saudi Arabia
    • Kurdistan

    Iraq, the Kurds, and the mess America has made

    Anthony Ricketts
    America’s strategy of ‘building partner capacity’ is beginning to show its weaknesses.
  • 25 Sep 2017
    • Iraq
    • Kurdistan

    Kurdistan precarious but steadfast on eve of referendum

    Lydia Khalil
    The allure of a referendum on Kurdish independence has overridden the practical implications and very real risks.
  • 25 Sep 2017
    • Iran's Nuclear Program
    • Kurdistan

    Leave the Iran nuclear deal alone

    Rodger Shanahan
    It is difficult to see how the Administration can renege on JCPOA, but the damage may already have been done.
  • 18 May 2017
    • Middle East
    • The Trump Presidency
    • Kurdistan
    • Türkiye

    Erdogan leaves Trump empty-handed

    Lauren Williams
    Erdogan was forced to concede on almost everything, even withstanding Trump’s repeated mispronunciation of his name during the press conference.
  • 13 Mar 2017
    • Syria
    • Kurdistan

    Muddying the Syrian waters

    Rodger Shanahan
    There is great potential for conflict and collision in the increasingly crowded battlespace in northern Syria.
  • 15 Nov 2016
    • Kurdistan

    Retaking Raqqa: Facts on the ground

    Anas Iqtait
    Syria doesn’t have a functioning central government that could take back control of Raqqa after the defeat of ISIS.
  • 1 Jul 2016
    • Kurdistan
    • Türkiye

    Turkey: Erdogan's focus on Kurdish threat no longer flies

    Lauren Williams
  • 18 Mar 2016
    • Kurdistan

    Syrian Kurds declare autonomy but remain trapped by regional power games

    Bob Bowker

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