List of Kurdistan articles
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Worst Vacation Ever for Australian Anti-ISIS Vigilante
It turns out taking a Euro-trip isn't the best idea for foreign fighters in Syria.
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Luv_BWcrop960460 Helly Luv
For making the Peshmerga's fight go viral
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Erdogan’s Big Night
The Turkish president's party defied the polls, guaranteeing its political dominance for years to come.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Blood On the Ballot
As Turkey heads to parliamentary elections on Sunday, the country’s Kurdish heartland is hoping to defeat President Recep Tayyip Erdogan at the ballot box — even as some young Kurds say a guerrilla war is their only hope against the government.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Kurdistan’s Democracy on the Brink
Iraqi Kurds have long prided themselves on their relatively high standards of governance. But now that reputation is under threat.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Report Finds Kurdish Wins Against Islamic State Come at High Cost
Arab residents of villages reclaimed by Kurdish forces are being systematically pushed out of their homes.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Erdogan’s Deadly Ambitions
The Turkish president has revived a civil war, purged opponents, and buried a corruption investigation, all in an effort to consolidate power. Will his drive to rule send the country over the edge?
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Kurdish Fighters: We’d Really Appreciate if you Came to Syria to Help Fight ISIS
Kurdish fighters answer questions from the general public, and make the case for foreign volunteers to join their group.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 How Low Will Erdogan Go?
Turkey’s voters are, once again, about to spurn their president. How he reacts will define the country’s future.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Turkey’s Kurdish Guerrillas Are Ready for War
With peace negotiations in tatters, the insurgency's leaders are preparing for a long and bloody conflict against President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s government.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Iraq Is Not a Lost Cause
A senior U.S. official recently said that my country might need to be partitioned. He couldn’t be more wrong.
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Sevres Map Forget Sykes-Picot. It’s the Treaty of Sèvres That Explains the Modern Middle East.
Ninety-five years ago today, Europe carved up the Ottoman empire. That treaty barely lasted a year, but we're feeling its aftershocks today.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Jabhat al-Nusra Abandons Fight North of Aleppo as Turkey and U.S. Plot ‘Safe Zone’
The al Qaeda affiliate's withdrawal is the latest development in a shifting balance of power in northwestern Syria.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Top Pentagon Intel Officer: Iraq ‘May Not Come Back as an Intact State’
The DIA director also warned that Washington may have to choose between the Kurds and Turkey.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Turkey’s Two-Faced Deal
The new agreement between Ankara and Washington is just a smokescreen for the latest campaign against the Kurds.