KRG Archives - Israel Rising

FRAGMENTING KURDISTAN: Iraqi Kurds Take a Neutral Stance Between Iran and the USA

February 8, 2018

There has been a running hypothesis in Middle East geopolitical circles that Israel and the USA were using the autonomous Kurdish Regional Government as a forward base against Iran. In fact, Iran has insinuate...

Putin Shakes Up Syria, by Inviting the Country’s Kurds to Sochi

Micha Gefen

November 1, 2017

Frontlines, Regional Analysis

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According to Asharq Al-Awsat Russia has invited Syrian Kurdish authorities to the Congress of the Peoples of Syria. The congress is a meeting of Syria's various ethnic groups that is scheduled to be held in So...

IRAN ON THE MARCH: Trump’s Kurdistan Folly Directly Impacts Israel

Micha Gefen

October 17, 2017

Borders

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The going line coming from Washington over the the joint operation carried out by the Iranian Al Quds Force, Hashd Al-Shaab, and of course the Iraqi Army against Kirkuk, a Kurdish majority city is that this was...

US Holds Off on Support for Independent Kurdistan, While Israel Sticks By the Kurds

Micha Gefen

September 17, 2017

Borders, Politics

While Israel remains the only country in the world to openly call for an independent Kurdistan, the Trump Administration continues to publicly beg for the Iraqi Kurds to push-off their referendum for independen...

Israel Surrounded as Iran Attempts to Divide Kurds Ahead of Independence

Micha Gefen

September 13, 2017

Borders, Regional Analysis

Sources close to us have confirmed that Qassem Suleimani, the head of Iran's Al Qud's Force is currently paying a visit to the Kurdish Regional Government (KRG) in Erbil, Iraq. The purpose of the visit is to f...

DEIR AL-ZOR FALLING: Syrian Regime and Kurdish SDF Head for a Showdown

Micha Gefen

September 10, 2017

Borders

As the talk of chaos and war between the Kurds of the Kurdish Regional Government in Iraq and the Arab areas to the South intensify due to the approaching referendum, something ominous is fast approaching betwe...

Iran is Scared of an Independent Kurdistan

Micha Gefen

September 6, 2017

Borders, Regional Analysis

September 25th will be remembered in history as the day which saw the beginning of the unraveling of the post WW1 global order. When the Kurds of Iraq finally vote for breaking away from Iraq and declaring an ...

Why are ISIS Fighters Being Transferred to the Border of Iraqi Kurdistan?

Micha Gefen

August 30, 2017

Borders

While Syria and Iran have begun to win back ISIS controlled areas in Western Syria, the Kurdistan Region Security Council has noticed that the defeated ISIS soldiers are not being killed or held, but rather tra...

US ABANDONS KURDISTAN: Independent Kurdish state would be “Significantly Destabilizing”

Micha Gefen

July 16, 2017

Borders, Regional Analysis

With the following statement the US has appeared to backtrack on their support for an independent Kurdish State in Northern Iraq. “We think that under the Iraqi constitution, there’s an important process of di...

Is the US About to Abandon Kurdistan?

Micha Gefen

July 10, 2017

Regional Analysis

With the Kurdish Independence referendum for the Kurdish Regional Government (KRG) in Iraq coming on September 25th and Mosul now back in the hands of the Iraqi National Armed Forces due to the Kurdish Peshmerg...

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