Balancing Regional Interests in Syria Is the Only Way Reach a Compromise Solution

February 11, 2021

Politically resolving the Hybrid War of Terror on Syria will involve difficult compromises on all sides, but this is only possible if each party acknowledges their counterparts' regional interests and…

The Kurds have Once Again been Abandoned by their “American Brothers”

January 4, 2021

Opinion

Yet again thrown by their “older American brothers” to the winds of fate, the Kurds in the Levant nowadays are not living through the best of times. On the border running between Syria and Iraq, a new…

The Worst Crime of Donald Trump’s Presidency Must Not Be Forgotten

December 2, 2020

Opinion

It was the worst crime of Donald Trump’s years in the White House. In October 2019 he ordered US troops to stand aside, greenlighting Turkey’s invasion of northern Syria that led to the murder, rape a…

Does Damascus Regard The Syrian Armenians Reportedly Fighting In Azerbaijan As Traitors?

October 15, 2020

Opinion

The Turkish reports alleging that the Kurdish-allied Syrian-Armenian militia “Nubar Ozanyan Brigade” is fighting in Azerbaijan on the side of the separatists prompt questions about exactly how Damascu…

Kurds Rebuild Ties with Washington to Even the Score with Ankara and Damascus

August 11, 2020

Opinion

The cultural identity of the Middle East where peoples lived for century without statehood has given the Kurds a particularly strong incentive to carry on their struggle for independence ove…

Ebb and Flow of Iran’s Influence in Iraq

July 30, 2020

Opinion

Getting caught between a rock and a hard place is an unenviable situation for a politician. A tragic case in modern times was that of Hafizullah Amin, the Cold War era Afghan communist politician who …

The Kurdish-Turkish Clashes In Vienna Aren’t As Clear-Cut As They Seem

July 2, 2020

Opinion

The Mainstream Media has attempted to misportray the latest Kurdish-Turkish clashes in Vienna as "ethnic clashes" in order to imply that the different ethnic groups that migrated to Austria from the R…

Turkey Begins its “Hunt” in Iraq

June 21, 2020

Opinion

After becoming actively involved in conflicts in Syria and Libya, on June 14, President of Turkey Recep Tayyip Erdoğan launched operation Claw-Eagle in Iraq against PKK’s (the Kurdistan Workers’ Party…