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The recent surge of anger and violence is rooted less in sudden mass hatred than in a decade of competing governance projects, shifting alliances, and local grievances—especially , its security forces...
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...
Turkey’s foreign policy and security footprint are in focus this week: Ankara extended expiring Russian gas import contracts by one year while pushing for U.S. LNG investment and talks to lift CAATSA ...
The claim that “ are the way the West wants the Middle East to go” contains a grain of truth — Western states have repeatedly partnered with Kurdish forces when it served counter‑terrorism and tactica...
Assyrian and Arab communities in have lodged repeated complaints that in concentrate political power in Kurdish hands, engage in arbitrary security practices, and impose cultural and educational chang...
’s instrumentalization of Kurdish grievances—what critics call “”—can be framed to generate sympathetic public and elite support for limited interventions in , but the evidence in contemporary reporti...
The sources do not show a straight, overt or the guarantors to hand the and regions to ; rather, the January 2026 agreement and surrounding diplomacy contained provisions and concessions — notably the...
A clear, single-party attribution for in northeast Syria during the recent is not established in open reporting: statements accuse the SDF of deliberately releasing detainees, while officials say they...
The recent fighting in Aleppo ended with Syrian government forces taking control of the last Kurdish-held neighbourhoods—most notably Sheikh Maqsoud and Ashrafieh—and buses evacuating the final SDF fi...