Kurds
Neither the KDP nor the PUK Wants to Compromise, but They No Longer Can Delay Cabinet Formation
The Old Dictatorship Was Gone. But Was a New, Islamist Regime in the Process of Being Formed?
Kurdish-Led Syrian Democratic Forces Have Been a Key U.S. Partner in the Fight Against the Islamic State Terror Group
Policymakers, Think-Tankers, and the Media Should Critically Assess and Withhold Unverified Turkish Reports
The Kurds Do Not Want the Americans to Defend Them; They Want the Americans to Enable Them to Defend Themselves
Given Trump’s Intended Focus On Countering China, Syrian Kurds Should Aim to Change the Conversation by Reaching Out to Taiwan
The Kurdish Lack of Leaders Who Can Cast Tribal Interests Aside and Rise to the Occasion Hurts Their Cause, Perhaps Fatally
Delisting the PKK, or at Least Lifting Bounties on Its Three Leaders, Would Have Several Immediate Benefits
In Syria, Turkey Continues to ‘Turkify’ Kurdish Regions and Engages in Ethnic Cleansing
U.S. Government Agencies Work with Kurds in Different Countries, Often at Cross Purposes
Erdoğan’s Syrian Proxies May Welcome the Excuse Not to Be Pushed Into a Devastating Conflict with Non-threatening Kurds
As Turkey Doubles Down on Its Islamist Agenda, the Kurds Remain One of the Region’s Few Forces Pushing In the Opposite Direction
With Erdoğan’s Strikes Against Kurds in Syria, Tourist Zones in Turkey’s Largest City Could Become the Next Battlefields
Kurds Face a Jihadist Group Wielding Political Power and Significant Turkish Involvement in Syria’s Affairs
Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham and Turkey Will Allow Kurds to Be Partners Only If They Abandon a Secular and Democratic Worldview
Turkey’s Syrian Jihadists Take Over Syria: Kurds, Half a Million Christians Under Intolerable Threat
‘Hayat Tahrir Al Sham’ Means ‘Organization for the Liberation of the Levant,’ Meaning Much of the Middle East, Including Israel, Lebanon and Jordan
Few in Syria Take Seriously the Moderate Image Currently Being Presented by HTS Leader Abu Mohammed Al-Julani
Syrian Kurds Seize Opportunity for Change Amid Assad’s Fall, But Fear Islamist Opposition and Regional Instability
In Apparent Snub to U.S., Turkish Foreign Minister Says ‘Elimination’ of Group Is Country’s ‘Strategic Goal’