Northeast Syria schools reopen as tighter curriculum policy risks deepening rift with Damascus
Schools in northeast Syria have reopened for the first academic year since the Assad regime’s collapse. The northeast Syrian administration…
ENKS maneuvers between Damascus and the SDF to boost its leverage
Two days after the Syrian Kurdish National Council (ENKS) announced it had been invited to meet with Syrian interim president…
Barzani-backed Syrian Kurdish council to meet with Syrian leaders in Damascus
A senior delegation from the Syrian Kurdish National Council (better known as KNKS), a Barzani-aligned umbrella group, is preparing to…
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Baghdad Splits the KRG Oil File: Khurmala Separated from IOC Demands
At its meeting today, Iraq’s Council of Ministers declined the KRG’s proposal on both oil and non-oil revenues. On non-oil revenues, the cabinet referred the dispute to the Council of…
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Are Turkey’s state-nationalists preparing a Plan B if Syria is partitioned?
Ankara’s ideal outcome remains a unitary Syrian state. But as the region shifts, influential nationalist voices close to the MHP are openly sketching a fallback: if Syria fractures, how does…
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Turkey Pushes SDF Toward a Choice Between ‘İmralı’ and ‘Israel’
The leader of Turkey’s MHP, Devlet Bahçeli, a key ally of President Erdoğan, has said that the SDF must “very soon” decide whether it remains loyal to the PKK’s jailed…
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The SDF Calls for Merger Rather than Integration with HTS-Led Army to Build a Syrian “National Army”
Sipan Hamo, a commander in the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), has proposed forming a joint military council with the Syrian transitional government, describing it as a first step toward rebuilding…
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Have the PYD–ENKS Unified Front Against Damascus Collapsed?
The Turkish Foreign Minister, Hakan Fidan, has said that the parties of the Syrian Kurdish National Council (ENKS) have asked Turkey for help. Yesterday, an ENKS delegation attended a Syrian…
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Baghdad Pushes al-Hol Conference Amid Fears of Sunni Syria and ISIS Spillover
Iraq is stepping up its diplomatic campaign to address the crisis of al-Hol camp in northeast Syria, pressing for an international framework to dismantle the camp’s extremist cells and repatriate…
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Iraq’s Election Commission Disqualifies Rakan al-Jibori, Shaking Up Arab Politics in Kirkuk
The Iraqi election commission has disqualified Rakan al-Jibori from running as a candidate in the upcoming parliamentary elections in Kirkuk, citing his failure to meet the “good conduct” requirement due…
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