Intra-Kurdish Chaos in Northern Iraq

Today we speak to writer and activist Karim Franceschi. He is also a former YPG International commander who fought in Kobanî and Raqqa. He talks to us about the wildlt under-reporter pogroms currently taking place in the Kurdish areas of Aleppo, Syria. The new jiahdi forces of th ...  Show more

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Ankara's latest effort to end a four decades long Kurdish insurgency is opaque and is full of risks and opportunities for Turkey and Syria's Kurds says lawmaker Cengiz Candar.

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Cengiz Candar is a lawmaker for the pro-Kurdish DEM party in Turkey who has spent long years in the Middle East. Candar outlines how Israel has hugely benefited from the fall of the Assad regime in Syria, while Turkey — another big winner — is seeking to thwart Kurdish aspirat ...

Kurdish forces have a long history of siding with the United States. And the United States has a long history of eventually selling them out. 

The latest iteration of this dynamic unfolded when Donald Trump ordered a small US military contingent to withdraw from Kurdish ...

James explains the significance of the ongoing Turkish bombing campaign against southern  Kurdistan and what this means for the Kurdish freedom movement as well civilians in the region.  https://www.kurdishpeace.org/research/human-rights/the-kurdish-refugees-at-the-southern-borde ...  Show more