History Suggests Kurds Are Key to Peace in the Middle East
The Kurds have spent a century fighting for autonomy and confronting brutal repression by Turkey, Syria, Iraq, and Iran.
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In Syria, the fighting is over, but a resource-rich province is left in limbo
That has irked Turkey, which supported the rebels now controlling Syria. Turkey considers the SDF to be an offshoot of the ...
Ancient Oceanic Plate Rips Apart Beneath Iraq and Iran
A research team is investigating the influence of the Zagros Mountains on the bending of Earth's surface. A team of ...
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President Barzani, anti-ISIS coalition commander discuss ISIS ‘dangers’
Kurdistan Region President Nechirvan Barzani on Tuesday received the commander of the US-led global coalition against the ...
Syria's interim leader holds talks with key ally Turkey on his second international trip
Syria’s interim president on Tuesday called for international pressure on Israel to force it to withdraw from the buffer zone in southern Syria.
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President Barzani inaugurates two unified Peshmerga divisions
Kurdistan Region President Nechirvan Barzani on Tuesday inaugurated the third and fourth infantry divisions of the Peshmerga ...
Iraq Says It’s Taking Steps to Resume Key Oil Export Pipeline
Iraq is planning to export at least 300,000 barrels a day of crude oil once operations resume at a pipeline from the ...
Syria has a new government—or does it?
Ahmed al-Sharaa, leader of the organization that overthrew Syria’s Assad regime, has “assumed the presidency of the country ...
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OPEC welcomes improved conformity of Iraq
OPEC’s JMMC welcomed on Monday the improved conformity of Kazakhstan and Iraq, including the additional voluntary output reductions.
Car bomb blast in northern Syria kills at least 20
At least 20 people, most of them women, have been killed in a car bomb attack in northern Syria, the country's presidency ...
Inside the ISIS open-air prison camp where thousands of families are forcibly indoctrinated to become fanatics in a lawless dystopia set to become the Ground Zero for Islamic ...
Scattered across Rojava - the Kurdish-led region in Syria that spearheaded the global fight against the Islamic State - there are prisons holding thousands upon thousands of captured ISIS fighters ...