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Turkey Threatens Christian Communities In Northern Syria In New Offensive

December 8, 2020

The return of Turkish backed militants to the Ain Issa in Rojava/Northern Syria/Western Kurdistan has put the region controlled by the Western backed Syrian Defense Forces (SDF) a Kurdish majority umbrella of ...

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

Micha Gefen

February 8, 2018

Politics

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...

SPLITTING SYRIA: The Coming Showdown and the New Middle East

Micha Gefen

February 5, 2018

Borders, Politics

With Turkey at a standstill against the Syrian Kurds and the US and Russia in a race to build up their bases within their respective proxy areas, Syria has become defacto split along sectarian lines. Assad and...

Trump Administration Puts Weight Behind Kurdistan as an Official Policy

Micha Gefen

January 25, 2018

Borders, Politics

In my post titled, "COLD WAR RENEWED: Israel and Kurdish SDF are Now Trump’s Weapons Against Iran" that was published on January 15th I wrote the following: "President Trump, campaigning against direct US in...

President of Turkey: “Israel is a state of occupation”

Orit ben Tzvi

December 10, 2017

Politics

In an unhinged reaction to President Trump's recognition of Jerusalem as Israel's capital, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Saturday described Israel as a "state of occupation" which used "terror" agai...

Who Will Stop Iran?

Micha Gefen

October 27, 2017

Politics, United States

Since President Donald Trump's famous Iran policy speech, Iran has been on the move, in a sense testing how serious the USA was in stopping their forward march. They have used the Iraqi military, the USA has f...

Iranian Revolutionary Guards and Shiite Hashd al-Shaabi Close in on Kurdistan

Micha Gefen

October 15, 2017

Borders, Regional Analysis

The Shiite Hashd al-Shaabi, which is an Iranian proxy in Iraq has been reportedly moving in on Kirkuk as of Friday. The group, backed by the Iraqi military gave the Peshmerga and Kirkuk governor a list of dema...

SHOWDOWN IN SYRIA: The Coming Israel-Iran War in Syria

Micha Gefen

October 1, 2017

Borders

For all the negativity surrounding the agreement forged between the USA and Russia at the G20 summit in July to impose a ceasefire agreement for the Southwestern part of Syria close to the Israeli border, it ha...

TURKEY CORNERED: Claims Kurdistan is a Zionist Plot

Micha Gefen

September 26, 2017

Politics, Regional Analysis

Reactions to the unfolding Iraqi Kurdish referendum for independence have been varied, with countries like Canada saying they support it, while Iran and Iraq claiming to be prepared to go to war over it. Yet, ...

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...

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