List of Kurdistan articles
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 The Sultan of Swing’s Dangerous Gamble
It appears Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is taking his country to war in order to win an election. It could be the biggest miscalculation of his political career.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Has the U.S. Just Sold Out the Kurds?
The most effective ground force against the Islamic State could become collateral damage under a U.S. deal with Turkey.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Turkey Enters the War Against the Islamic State
After months of indecision, Ankara has entered the fight in Syria. Can it turn the tide?
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Destroying Homes for Kurdistan
Diplomats and human rights workers claim that America’s closest ally in Iraq is engaged in a campaign of ethnic cleansing designed to push Arabs out of the future Kurdish state.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Mapped: The Islamic State’s Territorial Losses and the Beginning of a United Kurdistan
Kurdish forces, with the backing of U.S. airpower, have inflicted a series of defeats on Islamic State troops.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 American Killed Fighting Islamic State Alongside Kurdish Militia Group
Keith Broomfield's death marks the first American casualty in the free fight against the Islamic State.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Erdogan’s Kurdish Chickens Are Coming Home to Roost
The president's peace process with his country's Kurds could be the very thing that prevents him from coming out on top in the coming elections.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 The Turkish Opposition’s Secret Weapon
A charismatic new leader could help the Kurds to a breakthrough in Turkey’s parliamentary election. He's already giving headaches to President Erdogan.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 How to Retake Mosul From the Islamic State
Does the Iraqi Army have the right stuff to win the battle everyone knows is coming -- and handle the messy aftermath?
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Turkey’s Tomb Raiders
Turkey's mission to save an ancient tomb in Syria sheds unexpected light on Ankara's complicated regional entanglements.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Want to Hurt the Islamic State? Here’s How.
The Kurds have an army, and they’re willing to fight and die. So why isn't the United States sending them the weapons they need?
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Trench Warfare in Turkey
In the country’s Kurdish southeast, a quiet war is raging between local residents and the state.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 With Islamic State Routed From Kobani, Kurds Eye Mosul
A senior Kurdish official says the Islamic State's defeat in Kobani should smash its aura of invincibility.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 The World’s Next Country
The Kurds are on the verge of getting a homeland of their own. If they do, the Middle East will never be the same.
