How a bitter Washington divorce unravelled the secret U.S. fortune of the Barzani brothers
In a sprawling series of federal lawsuits filed between August 2023 and late 2025, Mahtaub Moore — a former Republican…
Syria’s Kurds Are Stronger Than Ever. That May Not Be Enough.
Trump’s newly released National Security Strategy offers the clearest lens for understanding why northeast Syria’s political options are foreclosing. The…
Will Turkey Let Mazloum Abdi and Ilham Ahmed Visit Ocalan on Imrali soon?
According to the official summary of the Turkish parliamentary peace commission’s visit to Abdullah Ocalan, when he was asked about…
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Ocalan’s Ascent to ‘Father of the Kurds’: The PKK’s Ideologue and ‘Semi-Divine’ Centre of Gravity
This past week, three MPs who together represent a majority in the Turkish parliament flew by helicopter to the island prison of İmralı in the Sea of Marmara and spent…
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Turkey Moves to Finalise PKK Disarmament Law as Imrali Talks With Ocalan Conclude
Following the historic visit by PKK–Turkey peace commission delegation to Abdullah Ocalan and its briefing to Turkey’s top security council, a package of parliamentary legal reforms is now expected to…
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Turkey’s Peace Commission Votes for Historic Visit to PKK Leader Ocalan; CHP Boycotts
Turkey’s parliamentary peace process commission voted today to conduct a historic in-person visit to jailed PKK leader Abdullah Öcalan, despite the main opposition party’s refusal to participate. The motion passed…
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An Ocalan Visit and the New Architecture of Kurdish Representation
The visit of Syria’s president, Ahmad al-Sharaa, to the White House has largely been framed as a turning point in Syria’s external relations and in the international management of the…
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Iraq elections: militias designated as terrorist organizations by the US take 80 parliamentary seats
Among the Shia militias that have been designated as foreign terrorist organizations by the United States, at least ten have contested the elections through political parties. Although militias are not…
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Turkey Eyes Return of Diyarbakır Mothers’ Children as Prelude to Öcalan Visit
A new round of briefings in Ankara suggests that the next moves in the Turkey–PKK peace track are converging around two linked steps: a staged return to Turkey of PKK…
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How the KDP Reshaped Iraq’s Minority Quota Map in the 2025 Elections
The results of the nine quota seats for the Iraqi parliamentary elections held on 11 November are as follows: The KDP has managed to win five quota seats that it…
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