Zour, which remains divided between Syria's new government and a Kurdish-backed militia, is a hostage to competing ambitions.

This principle is exemplified by the importance of the Golan Heights and Mount Hermon. Israel cannot allow its enemies to ...

No such location is depicted on current maps, for the old Kurdistan now falls within the sovereign space of four separate states: Turkey, Iraq, Iran, and Syria. Most Kurds – some 25 million – ...

B efore October 7, it could be said that Iran was at the peak of its regional influence and power. The Shia crescent was ...

Providing financial support and political power to terror-related groups without fundamental change in their nefarious educational messaging will not advance peace.

Kurds are spread out over areas of Turkey, Iran, Iraq, and Syria where they have faced systemic discrimination. Founded in Turkey in 1978, the PKK initially called for the establishment of an ...

ISIS may be on the back foot in Syria and Iraq, but it is not vanquished ... been fighting for greater political and cultural within Turkey. For Mr. Erdogan, counterterrorism means killing ...

Turkey’s post-Assad ambitions ... which could revive Kurdish ambitions inside Iran – or alternatively, Iranian stoking of YPG–PKK armed violence to undermine Turkish interests in Syria and Iraq. The ...

Scattered throughout the Middle East, mainly in Turkey, Syria, Iraq and Iran, the Kurds are the largest ethnic group in the region still in search of statehood. Turkey, in particular, covets land ...

the Kurds' settlement area was divided between Turkey, Syria, Iran and Iraq. Since then, the Kurds have been fighting for their own state — or at least for more power to decide their own affairs.

However, there are some things we can confidently surmise. One is that Syria in 2024 may be to Turkey what Iraq was to Iran in 2003. When the US invaded Iraq in 2003 and overthrew the dictatorship ...