Is Lebanon on the Verge of New War?The Israeli regime continues to violate last year truce with Hezbollah, triggering speculations that it intends a fresh war.
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.
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 ethnic divisions, foreign interventions, and repeated Isra ...
Kurds as part of a campaign to weaken the central Syrian government and split the country. So, striking the Turkish forces or Ankara allies in Syria by Israel is a high possibility, especially that Tel Aviv conducted an operation in Syria simultaneous with its Doha attack, something perceived as a m ...
Kurds stirred a political and legal dispute with Baghdad, leading to a legal tension that finally was ruled by the Supreme Court of Iraq and the International Court of Justice (ICJ) as violating sovereignty of the Iraqi federal government.
After several rounds of inconclusive talks, Erbil and ...
Kurds seeking autonomy in northern Syria.
However, constrained by its own economic troubles, it is unable to offer financial aid to al-Jolani's nascent government. Ankara has therefore focused its efforts on persuading the West to lift sanctions on Syria.
The Trump administration has complied, ...
Kurds' security guarantees and Russian role
Another major issue is the security crisis concerning the Syrian Kurds. Although Jolani is inclined to sign an agreement with the Kurds and integrate them into the army's structure, their demands for autonomy and regional developments have turned ...
Kurds, have suffered the most. Discriminatory policies, their exclusion from power structures, and turning a deaf ear to their legitimate demands have reopened the deep wounds of past decades.
Selling national sovereignty in a market of concessions
In foreign policy, embarking on an approach of ma ...
Kurds also fear the project's implementation would diminish the autonomous region's role and importance in energy security and international transportation routes. Meanwhile, routing the Development Road through Nineveh instead of the Kurdistan region has been described as more cost-effectiv ...
Kurds and formed the government of current Prime Minister Mohammad Shia al-Sudani.
Learning from that experience, the election law was amended ahead of the 2023 provincial elections. A critical reform under this amendment was the reduction of electoral districts from 83 to just 18, effectivel ...
Kurds, thereby preventing internal clashes that would weaken his position. However, achieving such an agreement is fraught with difficulty, given deep-seated historical grievances, mutual distrust, conflicting interests, and the hardline stance of Turkey against the Syrian Kurds.
Is al-Jolani Washi ...
Kurds and Shiites, hold defined positions within Iraq’s political and security structures, the prevailing sentiment among them remains that post-2003 developments have largely worked against their interests. Low Sunni voter turnout in successive parliamentary elections underscores this disillu ...