Iranian Blood Is on Our Hands, TooWednesday, 8 January, 2020 , 17:03

Nytimes.com | By Geraldine Brooks

General Suleimani is not the only one who harmed civilians.

Ms. Brooks covered Iran as a Middle East correspondent for The Wall Street Journal from 1987 to 1995.

 


  

Engel Statement on Turkey Resettling Refugees in Formerly Kurdish Northeast SyriaTuesday, 17 December, 2019 , 15:56

U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Foreign Affairs | Eliot L. Engel | December 11, 2019


  

Two British Kurds win seats in UK electionsMonday, 16 December, 2019 , 18:23

kurdistan24.net | Editing by John J. Catherine | December 14-2019


  

President Erdogan has issued a license to killTuesday, 3 December, 2019 , 17:41

Washingtonpost.com | By Can Dundar

A few weeks ago, in a meeting with Turkish parliamentarians not long after President Trump’s announcement that U.S. special forces had killed Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi in northern Syria, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan stated that he regarded the U.S. president as a role model:


  

Opinion | Undoing Trump’s Syria BlunderFriday, 29 November, 2019 , 17:23

nytimes.com | By Paul Wolfowitz | Nov. 21, 2019

America’s mission to protect the Kurds after the Gulf War is a model for low-cost, low-risk intervention.

Mr. Wolfowitz served in senior posts in the Department of Defense in the administrations of George H.W. Bush and George W. Bush.

 

 


  

The Iran Cables: Secret Documents Show How Tehran Wields Power in IraqThursday, 21 November, 2019 , 17:52

Nytimes.com | By Tim Arango, James Risen, Farnaz Fassihi, Ronen Bergman and Murtaza Hussain 

Hundreds of leaked intelligence reports shed light on a shadow war for regional influence — and the battles within the Islamic Republic’s own spy divisions


  

Erdogan’s ethnic cleansing of the Kurds is still happening now – and we have Trump to thankWednesday, 20 November, 2019 , 16:17

Independent.co.uk | Patrick Cockburn

Making life impossible for a civilian population can take other effective but less dramatic forms than the use of white phosphorus or roadside killings


  

Turkey’s Tyrant Eats a White House TurkeyTuesday, 19 November, 2019 , 18:02

nytimes.com | By By Bret Stephens Opinion Columnist | Nov. 15, 2019

Under the avalanche of endless Trump scandals, a superpower is losing its grip.


  

Turkey’s Other Weapon Against the Kurds: WaterTuesday, 12 November, 2019 , 17:21

Thenation.com | By Alexandra Marvar *

In times of conflict, war, and climate change, hydropower is state power.


  

‘Filled with hatred and lust for blood’: Turkey’s proxy army in northern Syria accused of abusing civiliansMonday, 11 November, 2019 , 17:32

Independent.co.uk | By Asser Khattab

Refugees accuse soldiers of ethnic cleansing as some 200,000 displaced