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The struggle for self-governance and independence of Kurdish regions.
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...
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...
The claim that a are not religious is not supported by the available reporting: most Kurds across the main population centers identify as Muslim (predominantly Sunni), with sizable religious minoritie...
Multiple independent and regional outlets report that has been effectively bed in late January–early February 2026, with residents and aid groups saying the city was encircled, cut off from electricit...
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 ...
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...