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A Stalemate in Kurdistan

The most recent parliamentary elections highlighted the rifts between the two dominant parties, the KDP and PUK.

  • Wladimir van Wilgenburg
· October 25, 2024
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Defending Israel, but not Kurdistan?

When U.S. Patriots shot down an Iranian missile over Erbil on April 15, Kurds wondered why such defenses weren’t activated when they were attacked.

  • Wladimir van Wilgenburg
· April 25, 2024
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The Yezidi Genocide Nine Years Later

For survivors in the community, the prospect of going home is disappearing because of political inaction.

  • Wladimir van Wilgenburg
· August 22, 2023
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Angry Ankara

Türkiye is raising the heat on the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan, denouncing its ties with the Syrian Democratic Forces.

  • Wladimir van Wilgenburg
· May 11, 2023
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Kurdistan’s Political Armies: The Challenge of Unifying the Peshmerga Forces

The issue of unifying Kurdish military forces has been on the Kurdish region’s public agenda since 1991. Seventeen years later, the various peshmerga forces remain divided along partisan lines.

  • Mario Fumerton
  • Wladimir van Wilgenburg
· December 16, 2015
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Cross-border Security Threats and Responses
February 26, 2015

Modern jihadist organizations have taken advantage of continued instability to make themselves into territorialized organizations which frequently cross established state borders, such as the Islamic State.

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The Syria Factor in Iraqi Kurdish Politics

Competing regional agendas continue to drive the two leading Kurdish actors in the region apart and because of this, they cannot agree on a joint policy to aid the Syrian Kurds.

  • Wladimir van Wilgenburg
· April 21, 2014
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The Kurds and Geneva II

Syrian Kurds fear that the Kurdish issue will be ignored in the Geneva II Syrian peace conference, despite the fact that Kurds control a significant part of northern Syria, including many oil-producing areas.

  • Wladimir van Wilgenburg
· January 20, 2014
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The Kurdish PUK’s Syria Policy

The Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK), which is led by Iraqi President Jalal Talabani, says only that it supports minority rights within a democratic Syria and that it is not in favor of autonomy for Syrian Kurds.

  • Wladimir van Wilgenburg
· December 11, 2013