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Archives: Kurds
![Have Syria’s Kurds invented a Democratic Neo-Socialism?](http://web.archive.org./web/20170701042837im_/https://media.juancole.com/images/2017/06/have-syrias-kurds-invented-a-dem-187x137.jpg)
![Obama’s last Victory: Syrian Democratic Forces hold Parts of ISIL Capital](http://web.archive.org./web/20170701042837im_/https://media.juancole.com/images/2017/06/obamas-last-victory-syrian-democ-187x137.jpg)
Obama’s last Victory: Syrian Democratic Forces hold Parts of ISIL Capital
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - This is the way the world ends This is the way the world ends This is the way the world ends Not with…![Trump sends US Troops to Patrol Turkish-Syrian Border as Ankara Threatens US Allies](http://web.archive.org./web/20170701042837im_/https://media.juancole.com/images/2017/05/trump-sends-us-troops-to-patrol-1-187x137.jpg)
Trump sends US Troops to Patrol Turkish-Syrian Border as Ankara Threatens US Allies
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - Only one fighting force in Syria is practically speaking taking on Daesh (ISIS, ISIL) on the ground, and that is the Syrian Democratic…![Kushner of Arabia: Can Trump’s Son-in-Law Figure out Iraq?](http://web.archive.org./web/20170701042837im_/https://media.juancole.com/images/2017/04/kushner-of-arabia-can-trumps-son-187x137.jpg)
Kushner of Arabia: Can Trump’s Son-in-Law Figure out Iraq?
By Shahram Akbarzadeh | (Informed Comment) | - - Days before President Donald J. Trump ordered cruise missile strikes on Syria, his son-in-law Jared Kushner visited Iraq to learn first-hand how the…![Has Trump deferred to Russia in Syria?](http://web.archive.org./web/20170701042837im_/https://media.juancole.com/images/2017/04/has-trump-deferred-to-russia-in-187x137.jpg)
Has Trump deferred to Russia in Syria?
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - Elizabeth Palmer reported from Ankara last Thursday that Secretary of State Rex Tillerson had difficult and inconclusive discussions with Turkish president Tayyip Erdogan…![](http://web.archive.org./web/20170701042837im_/https://media.juancole.com/images/2017/03/capture_crop_3-1.png_1718483346-1-187x137.png)
In Erdogan’s Turkey, an Artist is Jailed for Painting Reality
TeleSur | - - A Turkish court has handed down a two-year, nine-month and 22-day jail sentence to a Kurdish artist because of her painting of a Kurdish village being razed by…![Do Syria’s Kurds hold the Key to the future of the Middle East?](http://web.archive.org./web/20170701042837im_/https://media.juancole.com/images/2017/03/do-syrias-kurds-hold-the-key-to-187x137.jpg)
Do Syria’s Kurds hold the Key to the future of the Middle East?
By Clemens Hoffmann and Can Cemgil | (The Conversation) | - - The Trump administration’s plans for the war against the so-called Islamic State (IS) are at last becoming clear. And it…![Trump sends heavier weapons to Leftist Syrian Kurds to Fight ISIL](http://web.archive.org./web/20170701042837im_/https://media.juancole.com/images/2017/02/trump-sends-heavier-weapons-to-l-187x137.jpg)
Trump sends heavier weapons to Leftist Syrian Kurds to Fight ISIL
TeleSur | - - A Syrian militia led by the Kurdish leftist group YPG said they received armored vehicles from the U.S. military, the first such support. The U.S. has boosted support…![Kurds Will Come Together to Discuss Independence With Baghdad](http://web.archive.org./web/20170701042837im_/https://media.juancole.com/images/2017/01/kurds-will-come-together-to-disc-187x137.jpg)
Kurds Will Come Together to Discuss Independence With Baghdad
TeleSur | - - Kurdish independence “is a reality that will come true,” said Masoud Barzani, President of the Kurdistan Region in northern Iraq. Kurdish parties will meet with the Iraqi government…![Is Bruited Sec. of State Tillerson allied with Iran & at war with Iraq?](http://web.archive.org./web/20170701042837im_/https://media.juancole.com/images/2016/12/is-bruited-sec-of-state-tillerso-187x137.jpg)
Is Bruited Sec. of State Tillerson allied with Iran & at war with Iraq?
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - A couple of years ago an oil tanker showed up off the Texas coast with cargo from Iraqi Kurdistan. The problem? Iraqi Kurdistan…![](http://web.archive.org./web/20170701042837im_/https://media.juancole.com/images/2016/12/Prayer_cloths_on_Mount_Arafat_in_the_Yezidi_holy_site_of_Lalish_Kurdistan_Region_1-1-187x137.jpeg)
The Fate of Iraq’s Minorities After Mosul
By Tyler Fisher and Kamal Kolo | ( OpenDemocracy.net) | - - The liberation of Mosul offers the international community a unique opportunity to permit the region’s most vulnerable minorities to exercise…![Will Kurdish Soldiers Withdraw From Parts Of Mosul Their Leaders Covet?](http://web.archive.org./web/20170701042837im_/https://media.juancole.com/images/2016/10/will-kurdish-soldiers-withdraw-f-187x137.jpg)
Will Kurdish Soldiers Withdraw From Parts Of Mosul Their Leaders Covet?
By Histyar Qader | Erbil | (Niqash.org) | - - Baghdad and Iraqi Kurdistan have agreed where Kurdish military should fight. But, as commanders worry, there’s been no agreement as to how…![](http://web.archive.org./web/20170701042837im_/https://media.juancole.com/images/2016/10/E1C6FDE1-DFFA-4271-94B0-887658C30249_w250_r0_s-187x137.jpg)
Will Turkey, Iran & Iraq make the Mosul Campaign a Land Grab?
By James Miller | ( RFE/RL ) | - - We may be witnessing the end of the extremist group, the [so-called] Islamic State [group] (IS), as we know it. Over the…![Russia and Turkey Make up: What implications for Syria, Kurds?](http://web.archive.org./web/20170701042837im_/https://media.juancole.com/images/2016/10/russia-and-turkey-make-up-what-i-187x137.jpg)
Russia and Turkey Make up: What implications for Syria, Kurds?
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - Russian President Vladimir Putin was in Turkey on Monday for direct talks with Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan, in a bid to further normalize…![As Truce Starts, Russia Tells Free Syrian Army to Stop Fighting Kurds](http://web.archive.org./web/20170701042837im_/https://media.juancole.com/images/2016/09/as-truce-starts-russia-tells-fre-187x137.jpg)
As Truce Starts, Russia Tells Free Syrian Army to Stop Fighting Kurds
TeleSur | - - Moscow added it would continue its own air strikes against the Islamic State group and the militants formerly known as the Nusra Front Russia's Defense Ministry called on…![US: Turkish-backed campaign against our Allies in Syria ‘unacceptable’](http://web.archive.org./web/20170701042837im_/https://media.juancole.com/images/2016/08/us-turkish-backed-campaign-again-187x137.jpg)
US: Turkish-backed campaign against our Allies in Syria ‘unacceptable’
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - On Sunday evening, Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan told a rally in Gaziantep, a city near the border with Syria, “We will make any…![](http://web.archive.org./web/20170701042837im_/https://media.juancole.com/images/2016/08/jarabulus-1-187x137.png)
America’s Syria SNAFU: Pentagon’s Militias fight Turkey & CIA’s Militias
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - The Turkish incursion into Syria at Jarabulus was advertised as an attack on a Daesh (ISIS, ISIL) stronghold and smuggling station in conjunction…![US-Allied Kurds advance in Hasaka City, NE Syria](http://web.archive.org./web/20170701042837im_/https://media.juancole.com/images/2016/08/us-allied-kurds-advance-in-hasak-187x137.jpg)
US-Allied Kurds advance in Hasaka City, NE Syria
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - Clashes continued on Sunday between the Kurdish YPG [People's Protection Units] and the Syrian Arab Army in Hasaka, according to the Egyptian press…![Kurdish Women Fighting ISIL Send Solidarity to BlackLivesMatter](http://web.archive.org./web/20170701042837im_/https://media.juancole.com/images/2016/07/kurdish-women-fighting-isil-send-187x137.jpg)
Kurdish Women Fighting ISIL Send Solidarity to BlackLivesMatter
TeleSur | - - "You are among the most radical voices in today's racist, sexist, capitalist world," the YPJ wrote to Black Lives Matter. Fighters from the Kurdish Women's Defense Units or…![](http://web.archive.org./web/20170701042837im_/https://media.juancole.com/images/2016/06/Ethnicities_and_religions_in_Iran-1-187x137.png)