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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.

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.
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.

The fall of Rojava was not a conspiracy, it was a failure of strategy - opinion

 Members of the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) after US-backed alliance led by Syrian Kurdish fighters captured Deir el-Zor, in Syria December 7, 2024

Rojava defeated: Why Kurdish leadership must adapt or risk extinction - opinion

DEMONSTRATORS HOLD a placard featuring a braided hair as a symbolic act of resistance and solidarity with Kurdish women in Syria, during a protest supporting Syrian Kurds after recent clashes between the Syrian army and Kurdish forces, in Istanbul, Turkey, January 24, 2026.

Kurdish women turn braids into symbol of resistance after Syria atrocities - explainer


IDF vets organize pro-Kurdish protest in Tel Aviv

A YPG representative is expected to participate in the protest.

Kurdish fighters from the People's Protection Units (YPG) run across a street in Raqqa, Syria

Two senators reach across the aisle to tackle the Syria nightmare

The pushback Trump got from Democrats and Republicans alike in the wake of his abandonment of the Kurds would be tenfold were he to throw Israel to the wolves.

U.S. President Donald Trump attends Young Black Leadership Summit at the White House in Washington, U.S., October 4, 2019

Turkey’s Syria gambit show U.S. responds to threats and strength

Ankara deployed military forces and boasted that it would soon launch a military attack.

Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan addresses members of parliament from his ruling AK Party (AKP) during a meeting at the Turkish parliament in Ankara, Turkey, October 23, 2018

Iraq’s Kurdish region alarmed by U.S. withdrawal

Discussions to try and soften Ankara’s stance, dilute PKK role in eastern Syria came to naught.

A KURDISH peshmerga soldier stands at a lookout near Bashiqa in northern Iraq

Traveler in Kurdistan

Pointing a lens at one of the Middle East’s least understood groups.

Not as risky or adventurous as one might think: ‘Yehuda’ discusses his recent trip to Iraqi Kurdistan, at the Abraham Hostel

What is preventing Kurdish independence?

If Kurds find a way to be a key US ally against Iran, the situation might change radically.

Kurdish peshmerga forces on the way to Mosul

Iran: Dictatorship inside, instability outside

we believe there is a strategic convergence between the interests of nations inside Iran and the region’s main actors that can bring a new order to the Middle East.

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

Kurdistan’s economic woes

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

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.

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.

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