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Baghdad Turns to the Printing Press as Oil Revenue Holds Near $1 Billion
Iraq has begun printing money to manage the fiscal crisis triggered by the closure of the Strait of Hormuz, Foreign Minister Fuad Hussein confirmed in an interview with Al-Sharqiya television…
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Hasakah: After the Territory, the Fight Over Coercive Power
The Latest on SDF-Damascus Integration: • The region is in a transitional period, and security has been deteriorating steadily but at an accelerating pace across the SDF-held pocket, especially in…
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Iraq’s Hardline Factions Refuse a Disarmament Others Have Accepted
Iraq’s most powerful armed factions have begun responding to a renewed drive to bring all weapons under state authority. The political cover came from the Coordination Framework, which declared its…
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How Israel’s Iranian Kurdish plan against Iran collapsed
Three months after the war with Iran began, a fuller account shows the northern front Israel hoped to open through Iranian Kurdish groups was undone within a week, defeated less…
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Afrin and Qamishli could become transit hubs in two major regional rail corridors
A major shift may be underway around two Syrian Kurdish border geographies: Afrin in the west and Qamishli in the east. For most of the past decade, Afrin in the…
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Turkey’s Kurdish Peace Process Reaches Its First Legislative Test
Speaking at an Eid al-Adha gathering in Van on 28 May, Pervin Buldan, a lawmaker for the DEM Party, Turkey’s main legal pro-Kurdish party and a deputy speaker of parliament,…
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The Pipeline Deal That Could Remake Iraq’s Oil Map
The 1973 Iraq-Turkey crude oil pipeline agreement, last renewed in 2010, terminates on July 27. Turkey gave formal notice of termination in July 2025 and has kept a draft replacement…
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Arabs Win 60% of Hasakah’s Ten Seats as PYD Boycott Reshapes Kurdish Vote
Results from Syria’s parliamentary elections in Hasakah province and Kobani have confirmed our reporting from last week. In Hasakah, of the nine contested seats, Arabs won five and Kurds four.…
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Turkey’s CHP Crisis Is About The State Erdogan Wants To Leave Behind
The court intervention against Turkey’s main opposition party, the CHP, should not be read only as a legal dispute over a party congress. Nor is it simply another tactical move…
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Bahceli Calls for Ocalan Coordinator Role as Turkey’s PKK Endgame Takes Institutional Shape
Devlet Bahceli, the Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) leader whose political intervention in late 2024 set the current peace process in motion, has put forward what amounts to the most concrete…
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