Author: Kamal Chomani
-
Canceling Peshmerga Reform Undermines the Fight Against Iranian Militias
Kurdish soldiers in Erbil, Iraq. Shutterstock For more than two decades, the United States sought to encourage the Iraqi Kurdish peshmerga—the local militia—to unify into a regional body rather than operate as party militias answering to either the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) or the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK). Unity made sense: It placed the…
-
Trump Must Not Make the Same Mistake with Turkey and Syrian Kurds
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan at the Group of 20 meeting in 2022. Shutterstock President-elect Donald Trump’s coming second term leads Kurds in Syria to believe they face an existential threat from Turkey. Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan considers Syrian Kurds and the Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria they run to be an…