Syria Moves SDF Fighters Far From Home in Test of Army Integration
On the Syria-SDF integration front, a notable development took place today: The Qamishli brigade, composed entirely of SDF fighters and…
For Iraq, Hormuz Is a Boomerang
Iraq’s oil output dropped from approximately 4.3 million barrels per day before February’s Hormuz closure to around 1.3 to 1.4 million barrels,…
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…
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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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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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The PKK’s New Media Map Is a Political Map
The PKK-aligned movement has launched a new political-news channel, Nûçe TV, as part of a wider restructuring of its media network. The channel began broadcasting on 15 May, Kurdish Language…
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Trump Finds His Scapegoat for a Failed Iran Strategy: the Kurds
The US President Donald Trump accused “the Kurds” of diverting weapons he says were intended for Iranian anti-government protesters, claiming Washington had sent guns and ammunition through Kurdish intermediaries for…
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