The Kurdistan Region’s Emerging Strategic Geography
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The Kurdistan Region’s Emerging Strategic Geography
The Kurdistan Region’s energy and industrial map shows an emerging strategic geography in which the KDP and PUK, the two…
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Iraq’s Weapons Deadline: What Is Actually Being Negotiated Before 30 September
The argument over Iraq’s armed factions is an argument inside…
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Iran’s Kurdish Attribution War: Who Really Has Fighters Inside Iran?
Armed attacks inside Iranian Kurdistan have increased since the ceasefire…
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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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Economic Intelligence
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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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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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
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
Syria’s Army Restructuring Shows How Damascus Intends to Absorb the SDF
President Ahmed al-Sharaa is building a military system designed to…
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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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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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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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