Two Blasts Signal Deadly Game in South AsiaThe Pakistan and India blasts suggest that a new wave of instability is in the making, raising concerns about broader insecurity.
According to a senior Iranian military spokesman, Israel’s push for a ceasefire demonstrates the effectiveness of Iran’s expanding missile and drone arsenal
UNIFIL: No Evidence of Hezbollah RearmingUN peacekeepers in Lebanon have found no proof that Hezbollah is rearming, directly contradicting Israel’s stated reason for attacks
Deep Rift in Israeli Army LeadershipA dispute between Israel’s security minister and top general has escalated into a significant confrontation over postwar authority and military control
Axis of Resistances refers to countries and movements with common political goal, i.e., resisting against Zionist regime, America and other western powers. Iran, Syria, Hezbollah in Lebanon, and Hamas in Palestine are considered as the Axis of Resistance.
Kurds are an ethnic group in the Middle East, mostly inhabiting a region, which spans adjacent parts of Iran, Iraq, Syria, and Turkey. They are an Iranian people and speak the Kurdish languages, which form a subgroup of the Northwestern Iranian branch of Iranian languages.
Kurdish-language Rudaw news network that “more than 200,000 barrels of oil are smuggled through tankers and unofficial ports every month.” MP Suhaila Soltani also admitted that “the profits the Barzanis make from this operation go to their own account and are in no way related to t ...
Kurdish and Sunni factions objecting to its content, and the parties supporting the law have described these objections as “unfounded.”
Key points of new draft law: A step beyond the 2016 recognition
If passed, the law would replace the existing Popular Mobilization Forces Law of 2016 ...
Kurdish militias and without settling its issues with the Kurds, the Damascus cannot restore control over oilfields. Currently, this poses a tremendous challenge to the government budget.
Economy awaiting stability
The complexity of internal landscape of Syria, marked by political and ...
Kurdish claims in northern Syria. The US ambassador to Ankara has explicitly stated that the Kurds must resolve their issues and seek an agreement with the al-Jolani government.
Furthermore, Turkey hopes the Trump administration can rein in Israel's military operations inside Syria and help bro ...
Kurdish-held areas.
Ankara, which, unlike al-Sharaa, has its own distinct motives and interests, is demanding the Kurds surrender their weapons and demilitarize northern Syria, similar to its arrangement with the PKK. However, the Syrian Kurds, who publicly deny any cooperation or affiliation with ...
Kurdish autonomy, now with a green light from al-Jolani is seeking to impose its conditions on the Syrian military and government.
An agreement never implemented
A March 2025 agreement between al-Jolani and Mazloum Abdi, commander of the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), to integrate the ...
Kurdish-majority regions, to gain contentment of this NATO member and steer clear of Turkish reactions to the American and Israeli security moves and projects in Syria.
Setting up a military base in Damascus should be regarded as a new ring in a chain of Israeli occupation's projects aimed at t ...
Kurdish groups to resolve disputes is also a stipulated part of the agreement. Collectively, these developments point to a concerted Russian effort to rebuild a multi-faceted network of influence in Syria, spanning the military, political, and social spheres.
A recent phone call between Israeli Pri ...
Kurdish groups' efforts to retain their weapons and resist the central government, are clear indicators of the interim government's failed policies.
In general, one year of al-Jolani's rule has demonstrated that the government's initial promises of stability and peace were merely a ...
Kurdish people’s rights in Turkey.
Another senior commander, Serdar Mazlum Gbar, reinforced this position, stating that “as long as our leader is in prison, the Kurdish people cannot be free, and we as guerrillas will not feel free. Our path to freedom passes through our leader’s ...