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Iran to KDP and PUK Leaders: Let One Fighter Cross and We Strike You Directly
Iranian officials have warned KDP and PUK leadership that if one Iranian Kurdish fighter is allowed to cross the border into Iran and they find out, they will directly attack…
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Airstrikes in Iran’s West Target Police Stations and Border Posts, Hinting at a Ground Strategy Built Around the Kurds
Tehran remains the main centre of strikes, but the more revealing pattern is unfolding in the west. The war now looks less like a single-front assault and more like a…
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Who Comes First Where in Iranian Kurdistan
None of the Iranian Kurdish parties appears to command broad, province-wide mass support in the classic sense. Their relative weight is better understood geographically: which movement carries the strongest historic…
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What happens to PKK strongholds in the Kurdistan Region after the PKK vacates them?
One year after Abdullah Ocalan’s call to the PKK to disarm, the peace process has entered a phase in which the Kurdistan Region of Iraq is the physical stage on…
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Iran’s Kurdish Opposition Unveils a New Alliance, but Leaves the Hard Questions Unanswered
Five Iranian Kurdish opposition parties have announced what they call the “Kurdistan Alliance,” a new framework intended to coordinate decision-making for Iranian Kurdistan. The announcement was made in the Kurdistan…
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Turkey’s PKK Peace Commission Adopts a Disarmament Framework and a Regional Doctrine
Turkey’s parliamentary peace commission, established to chart a political and legal path out of the decades-long conflict with the PKK, adopted its landmark report on 18 February 2026, laying out an architecture…
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Mazloum Abdi at Munich: What It Was, and What It Was Not
Mazloum Abdi’s participation in the Munich Security Conference mattered, but it must be understood within its proper context. Inflating its significance risks pushing expectations beyond what the conference, or the…
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The Syria Crisis Triggered a Different Battle in the Kurdistan Region: Over What It Means to Be Kurdish
When fighting between the Syrian Democratic Forces and Damascus-aligned forces escalated in early-to-mid January, the Kurdistan Region of Iraq responded on two levels at once. The mainstream reaction was instinctive…
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Iraq’s Power Struggle Has Two New Wildcards: A U.S. Veto and a Weakened Iran
Three months after Iraq’s November 2025 parliamentary elections, the country remains without a government. The Coordination Framework — the umbrella alliance of Shia parties that holds the parliamentary majority —…
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The Perception Bubble: How an Echo Chamber Shaped the SDF’s Strategic Miscalculation
Following the SDF’s major territorial losses last month, much of the commentary has argued that the March 10 integration agreement stalled because PKK pressure from Qandil blocked pragmatic concessions. That…
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