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Kurdistan Region

Federal region of the Republic of Iraq

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Dec 13, 2025
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What countries currently ethnic Jews are not allowed entry kr even visit or travel?

Several countries explicitly bar Israeli passport holders; reporting lists at least a dozen — commonly Iran, Iraq, Lebanon, Syria, Saudi Arabia, Libya, Yemen, and others — and some bans are partial or...

Dec 5, 2025
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What are the legal authorities (authorizations, SOFAs, NATO or coalition agreements) governing US presence in Iraq, Syria, and Afghanistan in 2025?

U.S. forces in 2025 operate under a mix of coalition mandates, bilateral agreements and advisory missions—not a single standing legal instrument: the Global Coalition to Defeat ISIS announced its mili...

Feb 6, 2026

Is Iraqi Kurdistan an ethnostate

Iraqi Kurdistan is not an internationally recognized ethnostate but a constitutionally autonomous, majority‑Kurdish region within that mixes formal multiethnic protections with strong Kurdish politica...

Feb 6, 2026

Kurdistan including the Siria, Irán, Irak, Turkey; will be an ethnic religious state like Israel

spanning parts of , , and is unlikely, in current trajectories, to institutionalize as an ethnic‑religious state ; Kurdish politics across the region have produced strong strains of civic nationalism,...

Feb 6, 2026

majority of Kurdish Muslims are not religiously observant

Available polling and scholarly reporting show are overwhelmingly Muslim in identity across the region, but significant evidence points to diluted observance for many — with recent surveys finding a g...

Feb 4, 2026

Israel supported Kurdistan referendum

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...

Feb 1, 2026

Los kurdos de Iraq creen en los ángeles

La respuesta corta es: depende del credo; muchos , siendo en su mayoría musulmanes sunníes, sí creen en los ángeles según la doctrina islámica, mientras que comunidades no islámicas como los y los pra...

Jan 29, 2026

Is supporting Kurdistan a cause of leftist or right wings?

Support for "" cannot be cleanly mapped onto a single left‑right spectrum: Kurdish political movements and the external supporters they attract range from socialist, feminist and anti‑state currents t...

Jan 27, 2026

Israel is benefiting from kurdwashing

appears to derive political and strategic advantage from foregrounding ties to Kurdish causes—a practice critics call “”—even as its historical and pragmatic relations with various Kurdish actors are ...