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,…
Courts, Coercion and Control: Why SDF-Damascus Integration Is Hitting Its Real Test
On the latest developments in the SDF-Damascus integration process, a clearer disagreement is emerging over the future of the judicial…
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 has focused on whether Kurdish armed groups might be used…
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Arivan
Why Iran’s Kurds Are the Most Divided Kurdish Population
The Kurds of Iran are the most internally divided Kurdish population across all four parts of Kurdistan. Dialect, sect, geography, and five centuries inside an Iranian state have produced a…
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Yaseen Taha
One Year After Assad: How Post-Assad Syria Is Reshaping Iraq’s Shia House
More than a year after Bashar al-Assad’s fall, the real story is no longer the collapse of the old Syrian regime itself. It is the political and ideological crisis that…
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Arivan
The Maverick Playbook: How Bafel Talabani Is Trying to Turn Kurdistan’s Math Against the KDP
Bafel Talabani is running a two-front strategy against the KDP that has eliminated Masrour Barzani’s path to forming a government on his own terms. In the Kurdistan parliament, Bafel has…
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Arivan
Aleppo’s SDF Enclave Becomes a Test of Damascus’ “Integration by Pressure” Strategy
After days of intermittent clashes and fire exchanges, the Syrian army today declared the SDF-controlled pocket in Aleppo a closed military zone and called on residents to leave. Damascus has…
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Yaseen Taha
Kurdistan’s First Christians: How the Church Took Root – and Who They Really Were
Historic Kurdistan has long been defined by religious and cultural plurality, and Christianity has been one of its enduring strands. From the earliest phases of Christianity’s emergence in the East,…
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Arivan
US House Repeal of Caesar Sanctions Is a Major Win for Ahmed al-Sharaa – Here Is Why
The US House of Representatives has passed a repeal of the Caesar sanctions on Syria as part of the 2026 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA). Despite earlier reports that any…
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Arivan
Why the Lajan–Lanaz Protests Matter: Refinery, Tribe and Power in Kurdistan’s KDP Heartland
In recent days, a small village west of Erbil has turned into one of the most sensitive flashpoints in the Kurdistan Region. Protests by residents of Lajan, a Harki tribal…
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