EPA/Mohammed Badra
Outside observers are keen to declare the Syrian conflict almost over. It is anything but.
Many of the Iranian dead in the Nov. 12 Iran earthquake lived in the Mehr Housing, state-built affordable apartments that crumbled when other buildings stayed up.
AP Photo/Vahid Salemi
On Nov. 12, a 7.3 magnitude quake killed some 500 and injured 7,000 along the Iran-Iraq border. This Kurdish area has also been crushed by war and, after a recent separatist vote, militarily attacked.
EPA/Gailan Haji
It seems almost inevitable Iraqi Kurdistan will separate from the rest of Iraq – but going it alone will be hugely difficult.
A 1932 photograph showing the minaret of the Great Mosque of al-Nuri, Mosul.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C.
As Mosul rebuilds, its history is a reminder that people of many faiths lived in cooperation in the city. In the city was the Tomb of Prophet Jonah, venerated by Jews, Christians and Muslims alike.
Sheen Ibrahim, Kurdish fighter from the People’s Protection Units (YPG), walks together with other YPG fighters in Raqqa, Syria, June 16, 2017.
Reuters/Goran Tomasevic
The US is doing so with increasing frequency around the world – most recently with Kurdish fighters in Syria. A scholar explains what can go wrong, and why this approach is likely to continue.
Iranians watch a soccer match between Iran and Uzbekistan at a Tehran cafe last month. Compared to their neighbours, Iranians are not plagued by ethnic tensions.
AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi
Unlike its neighbours, Iran’s different ethnic groups live in relative peace and harmony. Given terrorism is often spurred by ethnic conflict, will Iranians be spared further terrorist attacks?
Central square in the Iraqi Kurdish capital, Erbil.
Eng. Bilal Izzadin
Iraqi Kurds will vote Yes to independence in September – and it could lead to trouble.
Here goes: Kurdish people in south-eastern Turkey vote in the constitutional referendum.
EPA/STR
With President Erdoğan increasingly empowered, the ‘Kurdish question’ is at the forefront once again.
Erdogan after the referendum, April 16, 2017.
REUTERS/Murad Sezer
How a once trustworthy NATO ally, an aspiring EU candidate and an emerging power came to be ruled by one strong man.
It all depends on him.
EPA/Sedat Suna
Four major powers are dancing around each other in Syria – and the Kurds could end up as the kingmakers.
Turkish TV channel shut down.
EPA/SEDAT SUNA
The people of Turkey have less and less access to independent news.
Wyatt Roy claimed he visited parts of the Middle East to meet Kurdish policymakers and industry leaders.
Supplied/SBS
Wyatt Roy took it upon himself to look for a gunfight without a cause.
EPA/Sedat Suna
Ankara’s real target in Syria is the Kurds, but is Turkey getting bogged down on too many fronts?
EPA/Sedat Suna
Turkey is recovering from a failed coup, not a war, but it could learn from the practice of post-conflict reconstruction.
Democracy saved Erdogan from the coup attempt. Can he use it to solve the Kurdish crisis?
Osman Orsal/Reuters
The protests that helped end the attempted coup turned into an affirmation of Turkish democracy. Can it help resolve the Kurdish crisis?
L'etat, c'est moi.
Kremlin
The latest atrocity will accelerate President Erdogan assumption of executive powers in Turkey..
Cry, the beloved country.
EPA/Sedat Suna
Politically unstable and bordering the world’s most violent and volatile region, Turkey is at risk of descending into civil war.
EPA/Ali Haider
Nearly three decades after the horrific gas attack by Saddam Hussein, Kurds are waiting for the world to recognise a genocide.
EPA/Sedat Suna
A second bomb in the Turkish capital in three weeks raises the question of who are the main players in the violent struggle.
Every time Iran has an election, its minority groups are suddenly the centre of attention – and then they’re quickly forgotten again.