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Critics call or a U.S.-made construct because ’s tactical partnership with Kurdish forces against amplified Kurdish autonomy while stopping short of formal recognition or state-building—creating the a...
The claim that “ is the territory of without ” oversimplifies overlapping historical, geographic and political terms: Anatolia () is a conventional geographic peninsula largely forming the Asian part ...
The label "" does not appear in the set of provided reporting, so its precise scholarly or journalistic definition cannot be cited from these sources; however, the materials document a long history of...
U.S. troop levels in Iraq, Syria and Afghanistan have been drawn down in a phased, conditions-based way: roughly 2,500 U.S. troops were in Iraq at the start of 2025 with fewer than 2,000 expected afte...
The toponym "" — literally "land of the Kurds" — is first widely attested in medieval sources, most commonly traced to 11th-century chronicles, but the name’s origins are contested and earlier referen...
is not an ethnoreligious state like : is primarily ethnic and linguistic with religious diversity and a largely secular political culture in the Kurdistan Region of , whereas Israel defines itself thr...
The short answer is: no — is not a "nonreligious state like ." The Kurdish homeland is religiously diverse and overwhelmingly Muslim in population, with political institutions that in some parts (nota...
Estimates of the vary widely because of inconsistent definitions and weak official data: many authoritative sources put the Kurdish diaspora in and elsewhere at roughly 1–2 million, while some Kurdish...
publicly and explicitly expressed support for the independence referendum in 2017, with declaring backing for Kurdish aspirations and Israel widely characterized as the lone state to endorse an indepe...
appears to derive measurable political and security benefits from practices that scholars and activists might call "" — the systematic conflation of Kurdish political identity with terrorism and the s...