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…
A micro-level look at the demographics of northern Syria reveals how much Kurdish nationalist expectations have diverged from ground realities, and why the broader territorial collapse of the SDF polity…
For the first time in their history, Amedspor will play in Turkey’s top division. The promotion is a football story, but only barely. It is a social and political event…
The Pentagon’s budget request for next year proposes to end U.S. training and weapons support for the Kurdistan Regional Government’s Ministry of Peshmerga Affairs entirely. The line is worth $61…
Iraq’s Coordination Framework on April 27 named businessman Ali al-Zaidi as prime minister-designate, and President Nizar Amede tasked him the same day with forming a government within the constitutional thirty-day window. Zaidi,…
More than a year after Abdullah Ocalan called for disarmament from his prison on Imrali island, Turkey’s peace process with the PKK has reached its first genuinely hard question: which…
On April 22, the U.S. Justice Department filed a civil forfeiture complaint in the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California seeking to seize a Beverly Hills mansion…