Under Turkish Guns and a US Sellout, Kurds Turn to Iran
The Kurds of Syria and their Iraqi brothers, riding high just last week, found themselves on Wednesday Aug. 24 directly under
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Masoud Barzani
Russia and Turkey Act in Unison to Pre-empt Kurdish States in Syria and Iraq
Last-minute breaking news: In the footsteps of the Putin-Erdogan summit, a large delegation of Turkish foreign ministry, military and intelligence
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Obama Acts to Curb Kurds’ Slippage into Secession and Russia’s Ken
The Obama administration, concerned by the possible Kurdish secession from Syria and fall under Russian influence, dispatched a key official
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Iraqi Kurds Shop for New Patrons to Fight ISIS after White House Shut Its Door
High-ranking Kurdish officials from Irbil had a pressing question for a group of US policy and intelligence strategists holding a
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Hurdles Beset Run-up to US-led Spring Offensive to Recover Mosul
Nothing much is going right for the Obama administration’s planned spring offensive to wrest Mosul from the Islamic State. The
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Obama’s Strategic Partnership with Iran in Iraq Doesn’t Stop IS. US Abandons Kurds
Sounding strikingly like US President Barack Obama’s Republican detractors, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton this week knocked American foreign policy
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The Peshmerga Falls Back Against a Multiple Al Qaeda Onslaught. Obama Mulls US Air Support
The Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG)’s Peshmerga army, with its 45,000 well-trained, disciplined and armed soldiers, was until recently rated the
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Kurdistan Is Programmed for Full Independence, Encouraged by US, Turkey and Israel
The partition of Iraq inched ever-closer as the president of the country’s semi-autonomous Kurdish region, Masoud Barzani, announced plans to
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Baluchi, Khuzestani Unrest at Iran’s Back Door and the Kurdish reach for the Mediterranean
The Iranians seem to be spending all their time staving off any Western bids to diminish their nuclear capabilities. But
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A Pro-US Kurdish State Rises in Northern Syria – Between Irbil and Aleppo
Unnoticed by the world, a Kurdish state last week imperceptibly gained de facto independence. Covering an area of 80,000 square
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