Kurds

Why did Turkey attempt to replace a newly elected pro-Kurdish mayor?

How Turkey’s opposition media empowers Erdoğan

Complicity in perpetuating authoritarian rule has many faces. Undemocratic governance is propped up by politicians and big businesses as well as a complacent media ecosystem and...

The Queen’s speech

Her Majesty Rania Al Abdullah misses an opportunity

Turkey’s Erdoğan Silences Critics with “FETO” Terrorist Label

For 10 years, the Gulen movement has been synonymous with terrorism

Kurdish solidarity delegation from Germany visits Israel

The visit was to express the Kurdish solidarity with the Jewish people and the Kurdish sentiments that the Jews are not alone.

Trailblazers: IDF’s engineers transform the North

In a special project, engineers build new roads to ensure safe passages for soldiers and civilians in northern Israel, as Hezbollah continues to rain down rockets and missiles.

Iran Executes Four Men Falsely Accused of Mossad Ties

Iran on January 29 hanged four prisoners accused of planning to sabotage a Defense Ministry factory and having links with Israel’s Mossad intelligence agency. Iranian state media...

The drone wars of Iran’s militias are becoming more deadly

Iran is seeking to improve the capabilities of its drones. It has now had almost ten years to use them throughout the region.

U.S. Strikes Iranian-Backed Group in Response to Attacks in Iraq

U.S. forces carried out airstrikes on Kataib Hezbollah on January 24 in response to the Iranian-backed group’s targeting of American troops in Iraq. Kataib Hezbollah conducted...

Comparing Gaza with Mosul

When the war broke out in Gaza, observers made a number of comparisons to the challenges faced by the US-backed anti-ISIS coalition in the battle of Mosul. I was in northern Iraq when it began in October...

Iran regime media faked photo with rabbi to justify killing

The report Iran then created fake images of the victim with a rabbi to justify his killing appears to illustrate Iran’s regime lurching into antisemitic conspiracy theories.

Iranian media falsely claims to have ‘injured’ Israeli in Iraq attacks

Iranian media uses antisemitic tropes of an image of a rabbi to claim that a Kurdish businessman was linked to ‘Mossad.’

Iran Fires Ballistic Missiles at Iraq and Syria

Iran fired ballistic missiles at Iraq and Syria on January 15 at what it described as regime opponents. The strike in Iraq, which killed four civilians, hit a residential area near...

Iran Will Escalate Until It Pays a Price

Weakness in Washington only emboldens Tehran, writes Mark Dubowitz.

U.S. strikes Houthi launch sites, Iran targets ‘Mossad bases’ in missile attack in northern Iraq

The U.S. military attacked a Houthi launch site for anti-ship ballistic missiles one day after Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps struck what it claimed are “Mossad Bases” in the northern...

Iraq heads to provincial elections, first in ten years

Today Iraq is trying to put some of its past behind it.

Reporter’s Notebook: Life in northern Israel amid Hezbollah tensions

The sense of a ghost town, made more intense by low-hanging clouds and a bit of rain, fills out this area; from Arab al-Aramshe to Shtula and toward Mattat.

Khamenei promises ‘de-Americanization’ of Mideast

All eyes are on Iran in terms of the next moves it may make.

Iraq parliament speaker accused of ‘normalization’ with Israel

Iraq's sectarian parliamentary system breeds instability and creates incentives to persecute people.

The United States Should Unambiguously Embrace Our Kurdish Partners

Since the United States took the bold decision to partner with the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) in 2015, our NATO ally Turkey has accused us of working with (what it perceives to be) “terrorists.”...