Writings by Topic: Kurds
Articles by MEF Staff and Fellows
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Title |
Publication |
Date |
Iran's Quds Force mentored Turkish Jihadist Killed by Israeli Drone in Lebanon, Confidential Documents Reveal |
Nordic Monitor | November 26, 2023 |
Whispering Walls and the Inherited Complexities of Kurdish Life (Review) |
Arab Digest | September 19, 2023 |
Revolt Halted, but U.S.-Backed Forces Still Face Challenges in Eastern Syria |
Voice of America | September 7, 2023 |
The Tribal Uprising Against the Syrian Democratic Forces in Dayr al-Zur: Interview |
Substack | September 4, 2023 |
Revolution in Iran: The State of Minorities, Uprising Against Tehran |
The Jerusalem Post | June 16, 2023 |
In Depth: Bringing Assad in from the Cold |
GIS | May 10, 2023 |
Assad Has Won: Dealing with the Devil We Know |
EMET | April 27, 2023 |
Putin Expands Russia's Role in Syria |
Fox News | March 19, 2023 |
Turkey's Twisted Anti-NATO Tango |
National Review | February 1, 2023 |
Turkey's Latest Genocidal Campaign: 2,500 Attacks on Christians, Kurds & Yazidis |
The Stream | December 29, 2022 |
Ankara: The Officious Intermedler in Paris Attacks Against Kurds |
The Jerusalem Post | December 27, 2022 |
Erdoğan Seeks Rapprochement with Assad, under Russian Auspices |
The Jerusalem Post | December 23, 2022 |
Iran Protests: Inside the Kurdish Uprising Against the Iranian Regime |
The Jerusalem Post | December 16, 2022 |
U.S. Keeps Pressure on ISIS in Syria as Turkey Interferes |
The Jerusalem Post | December 13, 2022 |
'The Regime Will Lose Control': Interview with an Iranian Revolutionary |
The Jerusalem Post | December 9, 2022 |
Turkey Uses Missiles with German Parts Against U.S. Allies, Breaking Export Agreement |
The Jerusalem Post | December 8, 2022 |
The Complex Puzzle in Eastern Syria and the Kurdish Challenge |
The Jerusalem Post | December 8, 2022 |
'The Fear Has Gone': Iranian Protestors in Iraq |
The Australian | November 26, 2022 |
Can the U.S. Stop Turkey's Next Invasion of Syria? |
The Jerusalem Post | November 21, 2022 |
Turkey and Iran Attack Kurdish Areas in Syria and Iraq |
The Jerusalem Post | November 21, 2022 |
The IRGC Will Stop at Nothing to Punish Iranian Protesters |
The Wall Street Journal | November 17, 2022 |
Will Turkey Exploit Istanbul Attack to Bash U.S., Kurdish Groups? |
The Jerusalem Post | November 14, 2022 |
Iran Protests Approach Inflection Point |
The Jerusalem Post | November 11, 2022 |
Is Erdoğan About to Get His Comeuppance? |
Gatestone Institute | November 1, 2022 |
The Iranian Regime Speaks in Contradictory Voices as Protests Reach 40-Day Mark |
The Jerusalem Post | October 30, 2022 |
Is Turkey Backing a Former al-Qaeda Affiliate in Syria? |
The Jerusalem Post | October 28, 2022 |
Turkey's Policy in Syria at Crossroads after HTS Group Takes over Afrin |
The Jerusalem Post | October 15, 2022 |
Iranian Kurds Fear Regime's Threat of Incursion |
The Jerusalem Post | October 14, 2022 |
Is the Tehran Regime Massacring Kurds in Sanandaj? |
The Jerusalem Post | October 11, 2022 |
What U.S., Israel Should Learn from Iran Missile Attacks on Iraq |
The Jerusalem Post | October 9, 2022 |
Iran's Regime Trying to Manage Protests It Can't Contain |
The Jerusalem Post | October 9, 2022 |
U.S. Raid Targets Continued ISIS Presence in Syria |
The Jerusalem Post | October 7, 2022 |
Iran Continues to Attack Kurds in Response to Protests |
The Jerusalem Post | October 5, 2022 |
Erdoğan Allows Iran's Ally Hizbullah to Operate in Turkey -- Monitoring NATO Installations |
Nordic Monitor | October 3, 2022 |
Tehran Imports Arab Proxies to Fight Growing Protests |
The Jerusalem Post | September 30, 2022 |
Tehran Accused of Massacre in South Amid Wave of Protests |
The Jerusalem Post | September 30, 2022 |
Muqtada al-Sadr, Iraq's Dangerous Actor, Part II: Looking Ahead |
GIS | September 29, 2022 |
Tehran Attacks Kurds in Response to Mass Protests in Iran |
The Jerusalem Post | September 27, 2022 |
Attention Feminists: Support Iranian Women Burning Their Hijabs |
The Toronto Sun | September 21, 2022 |
Iran's Morality Police Kill Young Woman, Spurring Protests |
The Jerusalem Post | September 16, 2022 |
In-Depth: The Significance of Revived Contacts between Damascus and Ankara |
Jerusalem Institute for Strategy and Security | September 11, 2022 |
Erdoğan's 'Terrorists' |
Gatestone Institute | September 5, 2022 |
Erdoğan Protects ISIS Network in Turkey |
Nordic Monitor | September 5, 2022 |
Muqtada al-Sadr Retires: What Next in Iraq? |
The Jerusalem Post | August 30, 2022 |
Iraq Says Turkey Has Violated Its Sovereignty 22,742 Times Since 2018 |
Nordic Monitor | August 29, 2022 |
Israel-Turkey Relations Are Back, but Will They Last? |
The Jerusalem Post | August 26, 2022 |
Ankara Continues Killing U.S.-Backed Kurds in Syria; Girls Playing Volleyball Are Latest Victims |
The Jerusalem Post | August 21, 2022 |
Hezbollah Leader Says Iran Deal Won't Stop Attacks on Israel |
The Jerusalem Post | August 19, 2022 |
Erdoğan Forms Alliance with Turkish Hizbullah, Releasing its Prisoners |
Nordic Monitor | August 18, 2022 |
Sadrist Protests Against Iranian Influence: Iraq's Testing Moment |
The Jerusalem Post | August 5, 2022 |
Insurrection Iraq-Style: Toward a Deeper Instability |
The Jerusalem Post | August 1, 2022 |
Ankara and Tehran Instigate Iraq Chaos |
The Jerusalem Post | July 28, 2022 |
Erdoğan Murders Renowned U.S. Kurdish Ally in Syria |
The Jerusalem Post | July 28, 2022 |
Turkish Rockets Massacre Tourists in Iraq - An Explanation |
The Jerusalem Post | July 20, 2022 |
Turkish Aggression Threatens Syria's Most Vulnerable |
The National Interest | July 20, 2022 |
Does Iran Take Israel-Gulf Air Defense Cooperation Seriously? |
The Jerusalem Post | July 11, 2022 |
Breaking Away from Iran (Part 2): Iraq |
GIS | July 5, 2022 |
Turkey Uses Iran to Back New Syrian Invasion, Blackmailing NATO at Same Time |
The Jerusalem Post | June 28, 2022 |
Will Turkey Invade Northern Syria Again? |
The Jerusalem Post | June 24, 2022 |
Riyadh and Ankara: Will Reconciliation Change the Region? |
The Jerusalem Post | June 23, 2022 |
Iraq's Miracle: A Country that No Longer Needs a Leader or Government |
The Jerusalem Post | June 21, 2022 |
Iraq at a Crossroads: Kurdish Energy Competition with Iran |
GIS | June 14, 2022 |
Iran's Drone War Over Iraq Is Getting Dangerous |
The Jerusalem Post | June 9, 2022 |
What Are Iran's Options After the IRGC Assassination? |
The Jerusalem Post | May 24, 2022 |
Turkey Threatens New Ethnic-Cleansing Invasion of Syria |
The Jerusalem Post | May 24, 2022 |
Why Erdoğan's NATO Blackmail Is Subversion |
Gatestone Institute | May 18, 2022 |
How a Kurdish Mayor Pushed for Tolerance in Turkey |
The Jerusalem Post | May 13, 2022 |
Yazidis in Iraq Displaced Again; International Community Ignores Fighting |
The Jerusalem Post | May 4, 2022 |
Did Turkey Use Chemical Weapons in Northern Iraq? |
The Jerusalem Post | December 23, 2021 |
Why the US Wants Kurdish "Unity" in Northeastern Syria |
The Jerusalem Post | December 18, 2021 |
Does Killing of Iranian Dissident Foreshadow What Is to Come for Others? |
The Jerusalem Post | August 12, 2021 |
Activists Demand Recognition for Kurdish, North and East Syria |
The Jerusalem Post | July 19, 2021 |
Erdoğan vs. the Kurds: Where Will It End? |
The Gatestone Institute | March 11, 2021 |
Turkey's Gara Affair: How Not to Rescue Hostages |
BESA Center Perspectives | March 10, 2021 |
NYT Accused of Whitewashing Turkey's Afrin Occupation |
The Jerusalem Post | February 17, 2021 |
Iran Threatens US Kurdish Allies in Iraq |
The Hill | October 23, 2020 |
I'm Banned from the US for 'Association with a Terrorist Organization' |
The Times of Israel | September 20, 2020 |
The Kurdistan Region in Iraq Tries to Balance Turkey, Iran and the United States |
The National Interest | September 8, 2020 |
Syrian Kurds Try Hard for Unity amid Threats and Pressure |
The Jerusalem Post | June 18, 2020 |
Turkey's Occupation of Syria Slammed for Ethnic Cleansing |
The Jerusalem Post | June 13, 2020 |
Are the Kurds the Next Kingmakers in Turkey? |
BESA Center Perspectives | May 11, 2020 |
Turkey Reveals New Plan to Buy Drones, Helicopters and Air Defense Systems |
Defense News | February 18, 2020 |
Too Little, too Late in Syria, Where Turkey Undermined the Rebellion |
The Hill | February 13, 2020 |
Explaining Washington's New Pro-Ankara Policy |
The Jerusalem Post | February 12, 2020 |
Putin Has Painted Russia Into a Syrian Corner |
Bloomberg Opinion | February 11, 2020 |
Do Syria-Turkey Clashes Presage a Wider Confrontation in the Middle East? |
The Jerusalem Post | February 7, 2020 |
The Precarious Lull in Northeast Syria |
The Australian | January 4, 2020 |
The Fighting Continues in Northern Syria |
The Wall Street Journal | November 25, 2019 |
Kristallnacht, ISIS and Today's Crisis in Syria |
The Jerusalem Post | November 10, 2019 |
Despite Setback, Kurds Appear Ready for Spotlight |
The Jerusalem Post | October 26, 2019 |
Trump's Balfour Moment |
The Hill | October 25, 2019 |
Turkey-Backed Jihadists in Syria Kidnap, Murder, and Desecrate |
The Jerusalem Post | October 24, 2019 |
Turkey's New 'Bashibazouks': The Free Syrian Army |
The Gatestone Institute | October 22, 2019 |
Obama-Era Politics Casts Shadow over U.S. Syria Discussions |
The Jerusalem Post | October 21, 2019 |
Rojava Sundown: A Retrospective |
The Jerusalem Post | October 18, 2019 |
Trump Betrays Kurds, Canada's Liberals and NDP Stay Silent |
The Toronto Sun | October 16, 2019 |
After Syria Debacle, Congress Must Act for Kurdish Region of Iraq |
The Jerusalem Post | October 14, 2019 |
Turkish Backed Jihadists Murder Prisoners and Female Politician in Syria |
The Jerusalem Post | October 13, 2019 |
State Department Distrust of Syrian Kurds Paved the Way for Betrayal |
The Jerusalem Post | October 11, 2019 |
Donald Trump's Shameful Syrian Betrayal |
The Spectator | October 10, 2019 |
After Fighting ISIS for Five Years, SDF Bombed with US Permission |
The Jerusalem Post | October 9, 2019 |
Trump Gives Turkey Green Light to Invade Syria |
The Jerusalem Post | October 7, 2019 |
UN Excludes One Third of Syria, Mostly Kurds, from Constitution Committee |
The Jerusalem Post | September 30, 2019 |
How ISIS Operates in Iraq Today |
The Jerusalem Post | September 27, 2019 |
The US Cannot Neglect Iraqi Kurdistan |
The Hill | September 27, 2019 |
In Iraqi Kurdistan, New Leadership Faces Old Challenges |
The National Interest | September 23, 2019 |
Is the U.S. Handing Northeast Syria to Turkey? |
The Jerusalem Post | September 21, 2019 |
Turkey Threatens to Flood Europe with Refugees (Again) |
The Jerusalem Post | September 5, 2019 |
Turkey Wants Arab and Kurdish Rebels in Syria to Fight Each Other |
The Jerusalem Post | August 12, 2019 |
Iran Says It Used New IRGC Drone Unit to Attack Kurdish Dissidents |
The Jerusalem Post | July 13, 2019 |
New Iraqi Kurdish Prime Minister Declares 'New Era' |
The Jerusalem Post | July 10, 2019 |
Kurdistan Region Worried as U.S. and Iran Tensions Grow |
The Jerusalem Post | May 16, 2019 |
Kurds in Northern Iraq Want U.S. to Stay in Region |
The Jerusalem Post | February 14, 2019 |
Kurdistan Region of Iraq Caught Between Turkey-PKK Conflict |
The Jerusalem Post | January 28, 2019 |
Turkey and U.S. Can't Agree on What 'Safe Zone' in Syria Means |
The Jerusalem Post | January 22, 2019 |
How Afrin Overshadows Eastern Syria |
The Jerusalem Post | January 3, 2019 |
Why Eastern Syria Matters to Everyone in the Middle East |
The Jerusalem Post | December 31, 2018 |
Trump's Rubicon moment in Iraq: Praising America's 'warriors,' ending wars |
The Jerusalem Post | December 27, 2018 |
A Year of Tyranny and Murder |
The Jerusalem Post | December 27, 2018 |
Analysis: Airstrike in Damascus an Embarrassment for Syrian Regime at Crucial Time |
The Jerusalem Post | December 26, 2018 |
Israel and the Yazidis |
The Jerusalem Post | November 26, 2018 |
Turkey Shells Kobani and Tel Abyad in Eastern Syria. What Are Its Next Moves? |
Middle East Center for Analysis and Reporting | November 2, 2018 |
ISIS Counterattacks in Syria Threaten Iraq and US Partners |
Jerusalem Post | October 30, 2018 |
Turkey's Syrian Quagmire |
BESA Center Perspectives Paper | October 10, 2018 |
Iraq Has A New Government. Now What? |
Jerusalem Post | October 4, 2018 |
Kurdistan Region in Iraq Goes to Polls a Year after Independence Vote |
Jerusalem Post | October 2, 2018 |
Mr. Kurd: Trump's Kurdish Comments Greeted with Pride |
Jerusalem Post | September 28, 2018 |
A Year after Referendum, Kurds in Iraq Face Iran and Us Powerbrokers |
Jerusalem Post | September 21, 2018 |
Interview in Syria: Idlib after the Agreement |
Middle East Center for Analysis and Reporting | September 20, 2018 |
Russia-Turkey Agreement to Prevent Syrian Invasion of Idlib, for Now |
Jerusalem Post | September 20, 2018 |
Iran's Attack on Kurds Is a Message to Washington, Riyadh and Jerusalem |
Jerusalem Post | September 9, 2018 |
Syrian War: Uneasy Calm in US-protected Kurdish Enclave |
The Australian | September 8, 2018 |
Iranian Artillery Targets Kurdish Groups in Iraq |
Jerusalem Post | September 8, 2018 |
Is Washington Scrambling To Prevent Iran-Backed Parties From Forming Iraq's New Government? |
Tzarizm | September 1, 2018 |
Three Kurdish Groups in Iran Are Now Fighting the IRGC |
Jerusalem Post | August 12, 2018 |
Turkey's Syrian Battleground |
BESA Center | March 21, 2018 |
A Turning Point in the Kurdish-Western Alliance? |
JPost | March 1, 2018 |
No, the Syrian Kurds Are Not Terrorists |
World Affairs Journal | January 31, 2018 |
Targeting Kurds in Syria: Making Turkey Feel Imperial Again |
The Gatestone Institute | January 25, 2018 |
Iraqi Kurdistan's Post-Referendum Isolation Boosts Iran |
The Jerusalem Post | January 20, 2018 |
Time to Kick Turkey out of NATO? |
World Affairs Journal | January 18, 2018 |
Erdoğan's Kurdish Gambit |
BESA Center Perspectives | November 15, 2017 |
The Disastrous Results of the Iraqi Kurds' Referendum |
The Jerusalem Post | October 27, 2017 |
Iraqi Kurdistan's Crisis: A Failure of Strategy |
The American Spectator | October 22, 2017 |
The Fall of Kirkuk: Made in Iran |
The American Interest | October 18, 2017 |
Turkey Plans Move to Box in Kurds in Northern Syria |
The Jerusalem Post | October 14, 2017 |
Terror Financing: It's Time to Take Care of Unfinished Business |
National Review Online | October 6, 2017 |
The Islamic State and the Kurds: The Documentary Evidence |
CTC Sentinel | September 21, 2017 |
Turkey's Mass Persecution of Christians and Kurds in Diyarbakır |
The Gatestone Institute | September 4, 2017 |
The Kurds Are About to Blow up Iraq |
World Affairs Journal | August 17, 2017 |
Many Muslims Need to Do Some Soul-Searching |
The Toronto Sun | June 13, 2017 |
Turkey Arrests Kurdish Activist for Armenian Genocide Posts |
The Armenian Weekly | May 30, 2017 |
Vilifying Syria's Kurds II: A Second Response to Roy Gutman |
Syria Comment | February 13, 2017 |
Vilifying Syria's Kurds: A Response to Roy Gutman |
Syria Comment | February 11, 2017 |
It's Time for Realism in Syria, President-elect Donald Trump |
The Hill | December 23, 2016 |
Turkey's Misdiagnosed Kurdish Problem |
The Gatestone Institute | December 20, 2016 |
Iranian Kurds Join the Fight |
The American Interest | December 15, 2016 |
Disunity as Kurds, Turks, Shia, and Sunnis Fight over Mosul |
The Australian | October 8, 2016 |
What Follows the Defeat of ISIS in Mosul? |
The Jerusalem Report | September 27, 2016 |
Humor, Counter-terrorism, and ISIS |
The Sun-Sentinel | May 20, 2016 |
In Syria, Locals Take the Fight Back to Islamic State |
The Australian | January 23, 2016 |
Eclipse of the Caliphate |
The Jerusalem Report | January 21, 2016 |
The Kurds Can Defeat ISIS if We Provide Incentives |
The Jerusalem Post | November 22, 2015 |
Islamist Turkey Does Not Belong in NATO |
The Toronto Sun | November 3, 2015 |
Blood and Ballots in Turkey |
The Huffington Post | October 26, 2015 |
Turkey Still Dances with ISIS |
The Gatestone Institute | October 15, 2015 |
Industry Unnerved by Spiral of Violence in Turkey |
Defense News | September 12, 2015 |
Blame Iran and Turkey for the Mediterranean Refugee Crisis |
The Weekly Standard | September 12, 2015 |
Middle East Provocations and Predictions |
The Mackenzie Institute | September 9, 2015 |
America's 'Faustian Bargain' with Turkey |
The Gatestone Institute | September 8, 2015 |
Turkey: Payback Time? |
The Gatestone Institute | August 30, 2015 |
Turkey's Multiple Wars |
The Gatestone Institute | August 16, 2015 |
Turkey and Its Kurds: At War Again |
The Gatestone Institute | August 6, 2015 |
Turkey's Syrian Kurdish Problem |
The Jerusalem Post | July 4, 2015 |
Turkey's Wrong Bet on Syria |
The Gatestone Institute | July 1, 2015 |
Turkey: Hope and Fear |
The Huffington Post | June 23, 2015 |
Eradicating Female Genital Mutilation in Iraqi Kurdistan |
The Weekly Standard | June 17, 2015 |
Never Again? The ISIS Genocide of Yazidis |
The Huffington Post | June 10, 2015 |
Iran's Kurdish Rebellion |
The Huffington Post | May 22, 2015 |
Erdoğan's Graying, More Kurdish Turkey |
Hürriyet Daily News | May 15, 2015 |
A Tremor in Iranian Kurdistan |
The Jerusalem Post | May 14, 2015 |
The Kobani Precedent |
The Jerusalem Report | March 25, 2015 |
Heartbreaking Times for Syrian Kurdish Refugees |
The Jerusalem Post | March 7, 2015 |
Islamic State Defeat in Kobani Will Be Hard to Replicate |
The Jerusalem Post | January 29, 2015 |
Female Genital Mutilation a Growing Problem in Iran |
The Weekly Standard | January 20, 2015 |
When Turks Die, Intention is in the Eye of the Beholder |
The Gatestone Institute | January 12, 2015 |
Did ISIS Use Chemical Weapons Against the Kurds in Kobani? |
Middle East Review of International Affairs | October 12, 2014 |
Kurds Abandoned by Liberals, NDP |
The Toronto Sun | October 8, 2014 |
Western Fear of Angering Turkey Leaves Besieged Kurdish Town at Mercy of Islamic State |
The Jerusalem Post | October 7, 2014 |
The Defense of Kobani |
The Jerusalem Post | September 27, 2014 |
The Guns of August |
The Jerusalem Report | September 17, 2014 |
The Case for a Unified Kurdistan |
National Review Online | September 16, 2014 |
At the Kurdistan Front |
The Weekly Standard | September 12, 2014 |
Hello, Kurdistan |
The Washington Times | September 10, 2014 |
Kurdish Advances |
The Jerusalem Post | June 21, 2014 |
Wars Within Wars |
The Weekly Standard | May 26, 2014 |
Kurdistan Emerges |
The Jerusalem Post | March 8, 2014 |
Kurds defending autonomous 'Rojava' enclave in Syria |
The Jerusalem Post | November 8, 2013 |
Kurdish Rivalries in Syria |
The American Spectator | November 8, 2012 |
Syria's Kurds stand alone after rejecting rebels and regime |
The National (Abu Dhabi) | July 23, 2012 |
Iraqi Kurdistan Without Blinders |
The American Spectator | March 22, 2012 |
Iraqi petroleum and the damage done |
The Daily Star (Beirut) | November 21, 2011 |
Syria, Turkey and the Kurds |
Israel National News | November 18, 2011 |
Preserving Iraq's Assyrians: Federalism |
Assyrian International News Agency | October 24, 2011 |
Kurdish-Christian rivalries |
The Kurdistan Tribune | September 25, 2011 |
Spring comes, but not for Iraq's Kurds |
The Daily Star (Beirut) | August 12, 2011 |
Kurdish leaders are drunk with power |
Daily Star (Beirut) | July 1, 2009 |
Kurdistan's Troubled Democracy |
Washington Post | April 18, 2009 |
Is Iraqi Kurdistan a Good Ally? |
AEI Middle Eastern Outlook | January 2008 |
Turkey's Terror Problem Is Ours |
Wall Street Journal | December 18, 2007 |
[Mosul and] Iraq's Next War |
Jerusalem Post | October 31, 2007 |
Enabling Kurdish Illusions |
Weekly Standard | March 19, 2007 |
The Same War |
New York Sun | November 2, 2005 |
"The Arafat Model" |
National Review | September 12, 2005 |
The PKK Factor |
National Review Online | August 5, 2004 |
Why Syria and Turkey Gird for War |
Wall Street Journal Europe | October 9, 1998 |
Beyond the Golan: Prospects for Syrian-Turkish Confrontation |
Turkish Times | February 15, 1996 |
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