PUK to Leave KRG Cabinet and Seek Separate Sulaimani Region, Source Says
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PUK to Leave KRG Cabinet and Seek Separate Sulaimani Region, Source Says
The PUK, dominated by the Talabani family and controlling the southeastern half of the Kurdistan Region, has reportedly decided to…
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The Hormuz Crisis Could Weaken al-Sharaa’s Support and Tighten His Grip
As the Hormuz crisis continues, Syria is facing a worsening…
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As Its Affiliates Integrate Into Host States, the PKK’s Regional Network Could Grow Stronger
The PKK’s regional integration in Syria and Iraq, alongside its…
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Hasakah’s SDF Integration Protests Are Fuelled by a Media War Over Who Is Winning
As SDF integration into the Syrian state on the ground…
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Economic Intelligence
Planned Iraqi Crude Shipments Set to Expand Syria’s Oil Transit Earnings
Iraq is preparing to begin exporting crude oil overland through…
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What Syria, Iraq and Turkey reveal about the scale of the global energy shock
On 14 September, Syria saw its largest protests since the fall of…
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Iraq’s 75% Oil Rebound in August Cost $2 Billion in Discounts
SOMO’s August tables show 73.7 million barrels exported, the strongest…
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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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Explainers
Peshmerga Unification Codifies the KDP-PUK Military Divide
The Kurdistan Region’s new military structure keeps the KDP and PUK hierarchies intact, gives each sweeping control over appointments and…
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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…
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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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Human Rights & Governance
The Hormuz Crisis Could Weaken al-Sharaa’s Support and Tighten His Grip
As the Hormuz crisis continues, Syria is facing a worsening…
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Arab Belt Settlers Made Up About 5% of Hasakah, and Up to a Fifth of Its Border Countryside
Fifty-two years after the Regional Command of the Ba’ath Party,…
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Turkish bases are thinning Kurdistan’s border woodland, satellite data show, but far less than claimed
Trucks carrying freshly felled timber have been filmed leaving the…
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Damascus Moves From Nominal to Physical Security Control in Hasakah
New on the SDF-Damascus integration agreement: Yesterday and today, a…
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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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Cultural Trends & Identity
As Its Affiliates Integrate Into Host States, the PKK’s Regional Network Could Grow Stronger
The PKK’s regional integration in Syria and Iraq, alongside its…
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Arab Belt Settlers Made Up About 5% of Hasakah, and Up to a Fifth of Its Border Countryside
Fifty-two years after the Regional Command of the Ba’ath Party,…
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The PKK Is Rebuilding Its Media as a Civilian Political Network
The PKK-aligned movement has spent the past eighteen months restructuring…
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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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Data and Map Portal
Kurdish-majority and mixed cities of over 100,000 in Iraq and Syria
As we have noted before, demographics are one of the key differences between Iraqi and Syrian Kurds and a main reason their models have diverged so sharply. Urban settlement is one of the clearest examples. Cities shape how wars are…
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Iranian Kurdish Armed Attacks Decline After May–July Surge, with Pro-PKK Groups Dominating Activity
Attacks by Iranian Kurdish groups inside Iran have declined after…
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