Published by Reuters, July 9, 2015 Erbil – Their common enemy is Islamic State, but Iraq’s Kurds are preoccupied by a struggle within their autonomous region, where political parties are jousting over the presidency and their supporters are invoking an old...
Published by Al Monitor, July 2, 2015 Newspapers are overflowing with scenarios that send Turkey into Syria after the expulsion of the Islamic State (IS) from Tell Abyad by the Kurdish People’s Protection Units (YPG). A flurry of speculation about operational...
Turkey will soon have to contend with a Western-backed nation-building exercise in Syrian Kurdistan. Published by Al Jazeera, 2 July 2015 For the last three years of the four-year Syrian conflict, Turkey has had to contend with the increasing strength of the...
Published by Human Rights Watch, July 3, 2015 New York – Armed militants believed to be members of Islamic State, also known as ISIS, deliberately targeted people they knew were civilians in a June 25, 2015, attack in and around the northern Syrian city of...
In the last few days, some officials of the Turkish government issued threatening statements, which resulted in the mobilisation of Turkish troops near the Syrian border. We, the Democratic Union Party (PYD), would like to clarify to our people and the international...
By Samuel Oakford – Published by Vice, June 27, 2015 As the death toll rises from a surprise attack by Islamic State (IS) fighters on the Syrian Kurdish town of Kobane, witness and victim testimony obtained by VICE News indicates the militants targeted civilians...
