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 Ekurd Daily, July 9, 2015 ANKARA,— Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu said he expected to receive a mandate on Thursday to form a new government and to start coalition talks next week, more than a month after an election deprived his AK Party of a...
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...
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...
