Iraqi Kurdish politics are a Middle Eastern Hunger Games spread across generations: Families form alliances to defeat opponents, but then turn against each other – sometimes even themselves – until ...

Mustafa Kemal at the beginning made generous promises to Kurds but then when he was able to stand on his feet, he forgotabout his promises." In another section of the book, the forced migration of ...

Pity the plight of the Kurds. The Kurds often quip that they are the largest people without a nation. That’s true. And they also say they have “no friends but the mountains.” That, too, is true. No ...

The dizzying pace of tension and subsequent reconciliation between Damascus and the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) in January served as a catalyst, realigning not only the Syrian theater but also ...

BAGHDAD Reuters) -Masoud Barzani, the Iraqi Kurdish leader who first took up arms against Saddam Hussein as a teenage guerrilla, remains a towering figure in Kurdish politics as Iraq heads into its ...