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Rojava failed, but Kurdish pragmatism may succeed where utopia did not - opinion

Rojava is shifting from revolutionary autonomy toward conditional integration.

|ByVEYSI DAG
Members of the Kurdish community and other protesters attend a demonstration against recent military clashes between the Syrian army and Kurdish forces, in Berlin, Germany, January 24, 2026.
Fighters from the Kurdistan Free Life Party (PJAK), an Iranian Kurdish opposition group, are pictured near the border with Iran in Iraq's Kurdistan Region, in the outskirts of Sulaimaniya, Iraq, June 21, 2025.

Iranian citizens' freedom may depend on cooperation with Israel, PJAK commander says

Peyman Vian, commander of Iranian-Kurdish PJAK, leader of the "most powerful" guerrilla force fighting the Islamic Regime, was interviewed by Israeli journalist Itai Anghel.

|ByLARA SUKSTER MOSHEYOF
GENERAL HUSSEIN Yazdanpanah, commander-in-chief of the Kurdistan Freedom Party (PAK).

From Rojava to the world: Kurdish-Jewish solidarity is a necessity - opinion

Memory, security, and a shifting Middle East reshape the meaning of Kurdish-Jewish solidarity as Rojava faces existential tests.

|ByAMED MARDIN
Members of the Kurdish community and other protesters attend a demonstration against recent military clashes between the Syrian army and Kurdish forces, in Berlin, Germany, January 24, 2026.

Kurds’ monumental role in defeating ISIS deserves recognition - analysis

As the anti-ISIS Coalition embraces Syria, the Kurdish role in the war on ISIS in Iraq and Syria also deserves recognition.

|BySETH J. FRANTZMAN

Kurdistan’s economic woes

Salaries for the Peshmerga is not the only vital area where funds have gone dry.

APRIL 9, 2016ByGLENN FIELD
Syrian Kurds from Kobani walk to the border fences as seen from the Turkish border town of Suruc

Those who face death: The kinship between Kurds and Israelis

From the security offices of Kirkuk to the front lines against Islamic State and the devastation left behind at Shingal, Peshmerga fighters remain stalwart in their battle against terrorist elements.

JANUARY 23, 2016BySETH J. FRANTZMAN
Hussein Yazdanpana, vice-president of the Kurdistan Freedom Party (PAK) gestures as he shows the frontline position his soldiers occupy fighting Islamic State northwest of Kirkuk

A world against ISIS

All the countries on both sides of World War II have been united by a common scourge.

JANUARY 3, 2016BySETH J. FRANTZMAN
Two Kurdish members of the Kurdistan Freedom Party (PAK) look through their gun sights toward Islamic State positions on the front lines northwest of Kirkuk

A look into the life of the Mount Sinjar Yazidis, one year post Islamic State siege

For the Yazidis, life has become a nightmare.

SEPTEMBER 28, 2015ByAVA HOMA
Yazidi women and children at the United Nations refugee camp at Arbat, near Sulaimani, in the semiautonomous Kurdistan Region of Northern Iraq

Report: Israeli-Canadian woman who went to fight ISIS, returns to Iraq to work with charity

Rosenberg, 31, who made international news late last year when she traveled to Kurdistan denies CYCI claim that she is part of the group.

SEPTEMBER 1, 2015ByBEN HARTMAN
Gill Rosenberg

Report: Majority of Israeli oil imported from Kurdistan

Importing crude from Erbil could be geopolitically, economically favorable for Jerusalem, says expert.

AUGUST 24, 2015BySHARON UDASIN
A Kurdish oil tanker is seen off the coast of Ashkelon

An incongruence of aims

The Kurds’ Western backers in northern Iraq are wary of the Kurdish goal of independence.

AUGUST 19, 2015BySARA ELIZABETH WILLIAMS
An officer from the Western coalition forces gives advice to Kurdish Peshmerga forces during a training session on how to defend the front lines against ISIS in Daquq district, northern Iraq, June 15

Who is doing ‘ethnic cleansing’ in Syria?

There is a famous quote from Malcolm X: “If you’re not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing.”

JULY 8, 2015ByJAN EZIDKHALO
The words ‘Islamic State’ reads on the facade of one of the Islamic State headquarters in Tel Hamis in northeast Syria, after the Kurdish People's Protection Units (YPG) took control of the area in 2015.

Prevent the rise of a North Korea-style Kurdish dictatorship

A communist Kurdish state, under the ostensible authority of the PKK and formed with the support of the US, will find a gateway to the entire Middle East.

JULY 8, 2015ByADNAN OKTAR
Turkish Kurds look towards the Syrian Kurdish town of Kobani from the top of a hill close to the border line between Turkey and Syria near Mursitpinar bordergate

Kurds tell Jpost: 'Just send us weapons to defeat ISIS'

Kurdistan confronts Islamic State and the prospect of independence

JULY 4, 2015ByLAURA KELLY, SETH J. FRANTZMAN
Gen. Tariq Harni smiles at a gift brought from Israel.