Why PJAK Remains Armed While the PKK’s Other Fronts Close
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Why PJAK Remains Armed While the PKK’s Other Fronts Close
On 25 August, Mazloum Abdi, commander of the Syrian Democratic Forces, announced from the People’s Palace in Damascus that the…
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Why Syria’s Political Geography Looks Nothing Like Iraq’s
Comparisons between Syria and Iraq usually start from a shared…
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SDF Dissolution and the Final Integration Deal: What Damascus Gained and What Remains Unclear
On the latest SDF-Damascus integration agreement:
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Why Was KRG PM Masrour Barzani’s Office Targeted?
The attack on Masrour Barzani’s office on August 17th and…
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Economic Intelligence
Iraq’s Oil Is Flowing Again. Its Budget Gap Is Not Closing.
Before the Iran war, which started on February 28, Iraq…
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Iraq’s Oil Revenue Is Recovering, but Its Export Geography Has Changed
Iraq’s oil-export collapse has begun to reverse, but the recovery…
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The Kurdistan Region’s Emerging Strategic Geography
The Kurdistan Region’s energy and industrial map shows an emerging…
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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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What Turkey’s Religious Communities Reveal About Its Regional Cultures
Turkey’s latest operation against the Suleymancilar religious community has reopened a question that has existed since the breakdown of the…
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Amedspor and the Kurdish Question’s New Public Arena
For the first time in their history, Amedspor will play…
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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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Human Rights & Governance
What happens now after Turkey’s PKK framework law has been approved?
A new phase has opened with the Turkish parliament’s approval…
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Turkey’s PKK Framework Law Sets a Controlled First Stage in a Wider Regional Project
Parliament is expected to pass the 12-article law governing the…
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KRG Cabinet Formation Deadlock Passes 653 Days, Longer Than Brussels or Belfast
Six hundred and fifty-three days have passed since the Kurdistan…
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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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Cultural Trends & Identity
What Turkey’s 12-Article PKK Law Does, and What It Leaves for Later
Turkey’s new twelve-article framework establishes the first legal structure for…
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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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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…
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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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