History Suggests That Addressing Kurdish Demands Is Essential to Peace in the Middle East
The Kurds have spent a century fighting for autonomy and confronting brutal repression by Turkey, Syria, Iraq, and Iran.
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Drone attack targets gas field in northern Iraq
On February 2, a drone targeted the Khor Mor gas field in the autonomous Kurdistan Region of Iraq. Dana Gas, which runs the ...
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Iranian court refuses retrial for Kurdish woman sentenced to death
Error occured during this request! Please try again later. ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - Iran’s Supreme Court has rejected Pakhshan Azizi’s request for a retrial ...
Ancient Oceanic Plate Rips Apart Beneath Iraq and Iran
A research team is investigating the influence of the Zagros Mountains on the bending of Earth's surface. A team of ...
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Ocean plate from time of Pangaea is now being torn apart under Iraq and Iran
The ocean plate was once the seafloor of Neotethys — an ocean that formed when the supercontinent Pangaea broke up into a ...
In Syria, the fighting is over, but a resource-rich region is left in limbo
Zour, which remains divided between Syria's new government and a Kurdish-backed militia, is a hostage to competing ambitions.
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Iran: Kurdish humanitarian worker at risk of execution 'at any moment' - urgent action
“Yet again the Iranian authorities’ show shameless disregard for ... by the Islamic State armed group and sheltering in camps in northeast Syria and the Kurdistan Region of Iraq. In early January 2025 ...
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Turkey and Iran Could Go to War Soon
Iraq is set to become a hot zone of proxy fighting between Turkish-backed Islamist militants and Iranian-backed ones.
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Ankara and HTS align on Syria
Middle East expert Eva J. Koulouriotis states that Ankara has found common ground with the jihadist group HTS, which has taken control in Syria, particularly regarding the eastern Euphrates. According ...