List of Kurdistan articles
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fp-cengiz-030-e1460042307858 ‘The Peshmerga Isn’t Afraid of ISIS’
Fighting on the front lines, Kurdish Peshmerga soldiers have joined the Iraqi Army in a bloody battle against the Islamic State. But sharing a common enemy doesn’t make them easy allies.
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mosul The Liberation of Mosul Has Begun
But who’s going to lead the fight to take Iraq’s second city back from the Islamic State?
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erdogan ‘How Happy Is the One Who Says, I Am a Turk!’
The war between the military and Kurdish insurgents is really a conflict over what it means to be a citizen of Turkey. That’s why there’s no end in sight to the bloodshed.
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GettyImages-514293494 crop In Erdogan’s Turkey, Everyone Is a Terrorist
For the president, there's no difference between critics and suicide bombers.
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GettyImages-515552554 crop Erdogan’s War
Turkey’s government has plenty of scapegoats for the current violence. But it should start by looking in the mirror.
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pesh The Time for an Independent Kurdistan Is Now
For too long, my people have been attacked, killed, and betrayed. We can no longer believe Washington’s promises or hope that Baghdad will help us.
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Barzani A Mysterious Pipeline Closure Is Bankrupting Iraqi Kurds
The export pipeline connecting Kurdish oil fields to Turkey has been offline for two weeks, costing Erbil at least $200 million.
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MOSUL, IRAQ - DECEMBER 10: Female Syrian Peshmerga fighters are being trained to fight against Daesh and Assad forces at a camp located in Old Mosul region of the city of Nineveh, Iraq on December 9, 2015. (Photo by Hamit Huseyin/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images) If the Kurds Go Broke, It’s Lights Out for Obama’s War on the Islamic State
The Kurds are our best hope of defeating the Islamic State. So it's time to step up our support for the Kurdish Regional Government.
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SINJAR, IRAQ - NOVEMBER 15: People remove household goods from the rubble of their town as a house burns on November 15, 2015 in Sinjar, Iraq. Kurdish forces, with the aid of months of U.S.-led coalition airstrikes, liberated the town from ISIL extremists, known in Arabic as Daesh, in recent days. Although many minority Yazidis celebrated the victory, their home city of Sinjar lay in complete ruins. Local Yazidi fighters who fought with Kurdish forces and some former residents have been taking any salvagable items out of the rubble, the town being uninhabitable and perilously close to the frontline. (Photo by John Moore/Getty Images) High Noon in Iraq’s Wild West
The Islamic State is finally being forced out of the country, but anarchy is taking over.
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GettyImages-510823516 Meet the Obscure Kurdish Fighters Taking Responsibility for the Ankara Bombing
These obscure Kurdish fighters just took responsibility for this week's Ankara bombing.
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ypj How the Kurds Became Syria’s New Power Brokers
And why Erdogan's war against them threatens to undermine his relationship with the United States and spark a civil war in Turkey.
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GettyImages-510831742 crop When Peace Is Bad Politics
Not that long ago, Turkey's ruling party was willing to talk peace with the Kurds. But voters had other ideas.
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rte Erdogan’s Foreign Policy Is in Ruins
Just a few short years ago, Turkey was heralded as one of the region's rising powers. What happened?
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Letting Putin Get Away With It
Allowing Russia to set the agenda in Syria will eliminate our last, best hope for defeating the Islamic State and restoring peace: Sunni Arabs.
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Screen Shot 2015-12-29 at 3.53.16 PM The Men in the Middle
Two young, charismatic leaders in Israel and Turkey are taking on right-wing governments and trying to transform their countries' politics. Can they change the Middle East without firing a shot?
