Kurds

As Turkey’s ruling party and its nationalist ally face a deeper legitimacy crisis, pressure on Kurdish politics is intensifying. By Pinar Tremblay Published on Al-Monitor, Dec 21, 2020 [...]

In an exclusive interview with Al-Monitor, Mazlum Kobane said the former vice president’s victory may well spell change in Ankara’s behavior. By Amberin Zaman Published on Al Monitor, Nov [...]

Through oil, Turkey is helping to indirectly subsidize the very same Syrian Kurdish administration that it’s seeking to crush… By Amberin Zaman Published on Al Monitor, Dec 9, 2019 [...]

The revolution in Rojava is under threat for several reasons, including a telephone conversation between US President Donald Trump and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, which was followed [...]

International actors were both a benefit and a detriment to the Kurdish struggle for representation, Wladimir van Wilgenburg and Harriet Allsopp write in their book, “The Kurds of Northern [...]

The U.S.-led coalition and the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) have eliminated ISIS spokesman Abul-Hasan al-Muhajir inside the Turkish-occupied Euphrates Shield (ES) region in northern Aleppo, the [...]

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and Russian President Vladimir Putin have reached an agreement to settle the situation in northeastern Syria. VIDEO Published on SouthFront, Oct 23, 2019 [...]

Concerns are growing over the reported presence of U.S. nuclear weapons at Incirlik, believed to be about 50 B61 gravity bombs. Last week the New York Times reported that officials from the State [...]

Donald Trump’s decision to “withdraw” from Syria has kicked up a lot of dust – there’s sympathy for the poor Kurds, concern for the stability of the region, fear of “increased Russian [...]

Despite all the disastrous consequences of Donald Trump’s Syria policy, the U.S. president has in fact been right in one respect: The world has done far too little to find a solution for the [...]