The US Could Not Topple Iran’s Regime. Now It Is Trying to Crack It From Within.
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The US Could Not Topple Iran’s Regime. Now It Is Trying to Crack It From Within.
The war has passed through three phases since February. The American and Israeli campaign that opened it [failed]{TNC LINK: regime-change…
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Turkey Returns to Kirkuk: From a 10% Royalty in 1926 to a 15% Stake in 2026
Turkey’s state oil company TPAO has acquired a 15% stake…
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The Turkey-Israel Layer of the PKK Peace Process
The Turkey-PKK peace process contains a strategic layer that most…
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As the PKK Makes Peace with Turkey, It Is Quietly Building Up Along Iran’s Border
Despite the ongoing peace process with Turkey, under which it…
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Economic Intelligence
Turkey Returns to Kirkuk: From a 10% Royalty in 1926 to a 15% Stake in 2026
Turkey’s state oil company TPAO has acquired a 15% stake…
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As Iraq’s Oil Crisis Deepens, Syria Cashes In on the Land Corridor
Syria is increasingly benefiting from the land corridor carrying Iraqi…
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Two Power Centres: How the KDP and PUK Became Different Kinds of Useful
The Kurdistan Region has one flag and is constitutionally one…
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The 8% Oil Share That Could Define the Limits of SDF Integration and Decentralization
The Syrian Energy Ministry has reportedly reached an agreement with…
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Amedspor and the Kurdish Question’s New Public Arena
For the first time in their history, Amedspor will play in Turkey’s top division. The promotion is a football story,…
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Courts, Coercion and Control: Why SDF-Damascus Integration Is Hitting Its Real Test
On the latest developments in the SDF-Damascus integration process, a…
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The War Did Not Break Iran’s PKK Exception. It Revealed How Deep It Runs
Much of the discussion around the U.S.-Israeli war on Iran…
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Why Iran’s Kurds Are the Most Divided Kurdish Population
The Kurds of Iran are the most internally divided Kurdish…
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Human Rights & Governance
Turkey’s Kurdish peace process presses ahead after breakthrough over the ‘framework law’
Following months of slowdown caused by the Iran war and…
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How Damascus Is Trading Institutional Manning for Coercive Penetration in Hasakah
The Syrian government has announced a provisional executive office in…
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Tehran’s Quiet Campaign on the Kurdistan Border
At least nine Iranian Kurdish fighters from the Komala movement…
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Where Turkey’s PKK Framework Law Stands
Negotiations over the legal framework for the PKK peace process…
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After the Ceasefire, Iran’s Kurdish War Moves Inside
A two-week escalation across Iranian Kurdistan has killed at least…
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Turkey’s PKK Law: What It Will Contain and Why It Is Taking So Long
President Erdogan confirmed on 24 June that his government was preparing a…
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Cultural Trends & Identity
The PKK’s New Media Map Is a Political Map
The PKK-aligned movement has launched a new political-news channel, Nûçe…
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The Demographics That Doomed a Kurdish National Project in Syria
A micro-level look at the demographics of northern Syria reveals…
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Casualty Data Point to a Narrow Social Base for Iran’s Exiled Kurdish Parties
The exiled armed parties have built their strategy around merging…
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Why Iran’s Kurds Are the Most Divided Kurdish Population
The Kurds of Iran are the most internally divided Kurdish…
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Data and Map Portal
Iran Strikes Kurdish Opposition Seven Times, Killing Nine and Wounding 12
Iran Strikes Kurdish Opposition Seven Times, Killing Nine and Wounding 12 Since US-Iran hostilities re-escalated around July 11th, Iran has carried out at least seven attacks on Iranian Kurdish opposition groups in the Kurdistan Region, killing nine fighters and wounding…
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Kurdistan’s Gas Boom Comes With Geopolitical Consequences
Iraq’s Kurdistan Region is increasingly establishing itself as a major…
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Peace Talks, Parallel Entrenchment: Turkey and the PKK Dig In Across Iraqi Kurdistan
Despite the PKK-Turkey peace process, both sides are quietly expanding…
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12 Strikes on Iranian Kurdish Opposition Sites in Iraq’s Kurdistan Region Since the April 8 Ceasefire
Since the April 8 US-Iran ceasefire, Iranian and Iran-aligned Iraqi…
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