By Juan Cole / Informed CommentSep 19, 2017
Kurdistan Regional Government President Massoud Barzani says he will power through the referendum despite protests. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )
By Juan Cole / Informed CommentOct 25, 2016
Iraqi forces continued their advance on Mosul on Sunday despite the car bombs and sniping tactics of Islamic State. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )
By Juan Cole / Informed CommentSep 25, 2016
Five hundred more troops will be sent to help with the massive Mosul campaign. They will not engage in fighting at the front but will help call in airstrikes on Islamic State targets and provide tactical advice and training. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )
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Juan Cole / TruthdigFeb 3, 2016
Barzani Masoud, president of the Kurdistan Regional Government, has called for an immediate nonbinding referendum in Iraqi Kurdistan over whether its people want to secede from Iraq and form an independent Kurdish state. Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )
Juan Cole / TruthdigDec 24, 2014
Al-Mada newspaper in Baghdad had an interesting article in the aftermath of the fall of Shinjar to the Iraqi Kurdistan Peshmerga. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )
Juan Cole / TruthdigOct 23, 2014
The legislature of the Iraqi Kurdistan Regional Government (a super-province of Iraq) has voted to send Kurdistan forces to the Syrian Kurdish city of Kobane to help it fight off a concerted attack by Islamic State. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )
Alexander Reed Kelly / TruthdigAug 25, 2014
"It's very unlikely that U.S. airstrikes will be able to stop" the Sunni fundamentalist group's march across Syria and Iraq, professor Vijay Prashad tells "Democracy Now!" on Monday. A coalition of regional militaries and even militias is needed. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )
Juan Cole / TruthdigJun 25, 2014
Former vice president and unindicted felon Richard Bruce Cheney (they always give the criminals’ names that way, in full) once said that he was sure that the Sunni Arab resistance to the U.S. in Iraq was in its last throes. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )
By Greg Muttitt, TomDispatchAug 23, 2012
Big Oil has replaced U.S. troops in Iraq, and the country’s oil output, crippled for decades, is growing again, with Iraq recently reclaiming the number two position in the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries. Now there’s talk of a new world petroleum glut. So is this finally mission accomplished? Dig deeper ( 9 Min. Read )
Staff / TruthdigJun 9, 2011
Turkey is no Libya or Syria in terms of repression, but the country has a few million disgruntled Kurds who would like more autonomy One Kurdish political leader is threatening civil disobedience (more). Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )
Staff / TruthdigDec 12, 2010
Iraq, or more poignantly Kurdistan, is back in the news after a prominent Iraqi Kurdish leader insisted on the Kurds’ right to self-determination, an issue that has roiled the region’s politics for the past … well, forever it seems. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )
Staff / TruthdigOct 13, 2008
The Turkish military launched an airstrike aimed at Kurdish rebels in northern Iraq on Sunday. It was the latest in a series of cross-border attacks authorized by the Turkish parliament in response to what it has criticized as the Iraqi government's lack of attention to the Kurdish fighters. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )
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