FOREIGN POLICY AUGUST 8, 2014 By John B. Judis Last night, President Barack Obama announced that he was authorizing American airtstrikes in Iraq. He described his intervention as a “humanitarian effort to help save thousands of Iraqi civilians who are trapped on a mountain” and as an effort “to protect […]
Summary The international community appears to be stepping up to the developing crisis in northern Iraq, one which the U.N. warned Wednesday had the potential to descend into “genocide”. The U.S. is launching airstrikes against ISIS militants, as well as, with other countries, dropping much-needed humanitarian aid for the starving […]
Reuters BAGHDAD/KIRKUK, Iraq: Kurdish forces seized two oil fields in northern Iraq and took over operations from a state-run oil firm Friday, while Kurdish politicians suspended their participation in Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki’s government. The moves escalated a feud between the Shiite-led central government and the autonomous Kurdish region against […]
JERUSALEM: A Kurdish diplomat has played down the significance of Israeli advocacy of independence for her people, saying this was not coordinated with the autonomous Kurdish government in Iraq and may be intended to serve Israel’s interests. While acknowledging that Israel had sway in Washington, which wants to prevent a […]
Note by the editor: This is an old post, however, due to the happenings in Iraq this week it is again interesting to understand what is happening in Kurdistan – and around it … TUESDAY, DECEMBER 10, 2013 Stratfor By Reva Bhalla At the edge of empires lies Kurdistan, the […]
DIAA HADID | AP ARABNEWS.COM KIRKUK, Iraq: After a decades-long dispute between Arabs and Kurds over the oil-rich northern Iraqi city of Kirkuk, it took just an hour and a […]
Tuesday, December 10, 2013 By Reva Bhalla At the edge of empires lies Kurdistan, the land of the Kurds. The jagged landscape has long been the scene of imperial aggression. […]
Story Summary Kurds in the Syria’s northeast announced the formation of a transitional autonomous administration Tuesday after making key territorial gains against jihadists in recent weeks. Washington and its European […]
STORY SUMMARY By Ali Ezzatyar, Goran Sadjadi The Daily Star A new era in Turkey was seemingly born last spring when the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) declared a cease-fire and began withdrawing its guerillas from the country’s borders. In an unprecedented move, the Turkish government formally announced that steps […]
STORY SUMMARY Iraqi Kurdistan’s leader threatened on Saturday to intervene to protect Kurds in neighbouring Syria, who are caught up in fighting between Kurdish forces and jihadists. Kurds in Syria […]
STORY SUMMARY Kurdish fighters expelled jihadists from the Syrian flashpoint frontier town of Ras al-Ain and the nearby border crossing with Turkey, activists said Wednesday, in escalating fighting that could signal another front in Syria’s fractious civil war.Kurdish fighters took total control of Ras al-Ain “after 24 hours of fighting. […]
STORY SUMMARY The president of Iraq’s autonomous Kurdish region, Massud Barzani, held landmark talks in Baghdad on Sunday with Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki on an array of disputes plaguing relations between the two sides. Barzani met Maliki, after which the two held a joint news conference in the capital’s heavily-fortified […]
By Caroline Alexander Bloomberg June 26, 2013 Syria’s Kurds are carving out a self-governed zone as the decay of President Bashar al-Assad’s government creates an opportunity for a people who […]
Monday, 03 June 2013, 07:50 GMT Source: Kurdish Globe, Erbil, Kurdistan (autonomous region of Iraq) SULAIMANI, Kurdistan Region – Intransigence on the part of both the Syrian National Coalition (SNC) and international actors is undermining prospects for a solution to the conflict in Syria, Democratic Union Party (PYD) co-chairman Salih […]
Iraq has denied refuge to Turkey’s Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) fighters, a key element of an accord to bring an end to years of deadly conflicts between Ankara and the […]
ARBIL – Hürriyet Daily News Turkey’s Baydöner, a döner kebab chain, has opened a branch in Arbil, the Northern Iraq, by receiving the Economy Ministry’s Turquality fund Dilara Sarıdilara.sari@hdn.com.tr Many […]
The imprisoned leader of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), Abdullah Öcalan, has reiterated his thesis on the creation of a “Kurdish Democratic Confederation” comprising the Kurds of Iran, Iraq, Syria and Turkey in a message to the Kandil mountains in northern Iraq, where the main PKK base is located. […]
“We are at a point today when the guns will fall silent and ideas will speak,” declared Abdullah Ocalan, leader of the Kurdish insurgency, in Turkey on March 21. “Turks and Kurds fought together (in the First World War), and launched the Turkish parliament together in 1922. The basis of […]
It promises to be a quiet day. Only one guard is posted on the front line in the clay hills 80 kilometers (50 miles) south of Kirkuk, in northern Iraq. […]
Fulya Ozerkan ARABNEWS Wednesday 20 February 2013 Turkey is defying Washington and Baghdad in developing a broad energy partnership with Iraqi Kurds as it pushes to secure affordable oil and […]