Uninvited Guests of the Inhospitable Sea
5 million registered Syrian refugees, also hosts many Afghan, Iranian and Iraqi migrants on the status of international protection.
The PKK and its Complicated Future
Turkey requested the Iraqi government to clean the PKK forces from Northern Iraq, and indicated that the TAF would carry out a cross-border operation there anytime if necessary.
How will Turkey carry out its Military Campaign beyond Afrin?
First and foremost, Turkey will try to evacuate the PKK from Sinjar by encouraging the Iraqi central government to take military action.
The PYD’s Forced Migration Policy in Syria
After receiving a short military training, some Iraqi Yazidis were sent back to Sinjar while others were sent to Syrian front-lines.
Who will land on both feet after the Afrin Operation?
Considering the larger region which includes Syria and Iraq along with protruding military power and the said region’s political and geopolitical realities, the following are Ankara’s aims for the future:
Minimizing the PKK existence on both Syrian and Iraqi borders
Consolidating diplomacy in order to assure Syria’s territorial integrity
Consolidating diplomatic compromise with Russia and Iran achieved in Astana and Sochi
Weakening the U.
Where does Iran and Russia stand in Afrin?
-paid army and which had seized control in a substantial part of Syria, especially towards the Iraqi border by going beyond the traditional Kurdish geography, may be interpreted from different perspectives by Iran.
A Pending Threat for the West: Foreign Fighters in the YPG
While the vast majority of foreigners within the YPG are Turkish, Iraqi or Iranian citizens of Kurdish origin, Kurds living in the West have also joined the militia.
Turkey’s Hunt for the PKK in post-referendum Iraq
The recent Asos and Mahkmur attacks illustrate that Turkey is forming an effective anti-PKK alliance with the Iranian and Iraqi governments.
The post-Kirkuk Operation KRG–Baghdad Relations: The Future Status of Barzani
He stated: "The results can never be erased… the Iraqi attack on Kirkuk and other Kurdish held territory vindicated my position that Baghdad no longer believed in federalism and instead wanted to curtail Kurdish rights.
The new Kirkuk-Ceyhan oil pipeline to send 1M bpd to Turkey
fter the seizure of Mosul in June 2014 by the terrorist organization Deash, the Iraqi Petroleum Ministry announced that a new pipeline will be constructed to the border of Turkey, since the pipelines carrying Kirkuk oil to the port of Ceyhan in the southern Adana province became irreparable.
The Ethnic Struggle in Kirkuk
General politics, assimilation
Including the Ba’ath rule, all those who were in charge of Iraqi politics aimed to assimilate Turkmens and demographically engineer the cities heavily populated by Turkmens.
Where did the Terrorists in the Trucks go?
I am including the shocking information, which I have acquired during my research, without any commentaries:Most of the deported terrorists have been taken to Iraqi borders.
US remains silent on Deash-PKK/PYD deal in Raqqa
BBC reported that according to many of those involved in the evacuation a huge convoy consisting of around 50 trucks, 13 buses and more than 100 Daesh vehicles left Raqqa for Daesh-controlled territory to the southeast, adding that Daesh also withdrew at least 10 vehicles loaded with arms and ammunition and the fighters included foreigners alongside Iraqis and Syrians.
KRG steps back: “We respect the court’s decision”
n November 6, Iraq’s Supreme Federal Court issued a decision that the country’s constitution which indicates the Republic of Iraq as “a single federal, independent and fully sovereign state” does not allow for the secession of any part of the country from the Iraqi state.
Do Separatist Movements gain Ground in World Politics?
For instance, the Kurdistan Regional Government had gained its autonomy in 1970, then lost it only to regain this status with the new Iraqi Constitution ratified in 2005.
Turkey rushes aid groups to quake-hit Iraq
According to the US Geological Survey, the magnitude of the earthquake, which hit around 32 kilometers southwest of the Iraqi city of Halabja at 9.
New PYD military quarters in Faysh Khabur
allowed the PYD to establish a new camp in Faysh Khabur - at the border gate between the regional government of northern Iraq and Syria, when the Iraqi army took action to provide control over all border territories in the country.
What’s happening in Saudi Arabia?
What is the impact of the regional conjuncture in all these changes?
The Iraqi Central Government’s capture of Kirkuk and other disputed territories together with Hashd al-Shaabi consolidated Iran’s influence in Iraq.
PYD’s New Shadow Leaders: Shahoz Hasan and Aisha Heso
Although the 7th congress has not attracted much attention except from the people working in this area, the two selected leaders presented themselves on the international and regional level by attending the funeral ceremony of former Iraqi Kurdistan Patriotic Union (PUK) leader Jalal Talabani.
Barzani fails to survive after referendum
ollowing the military operation of the Iraqi Armed Forces in Kirkuk, the KRG leader Masoud Barzani described the withdrawal of the Peshmerga and the handover of Kirkuk to Baghdad as “treason.
