The question before Masoud Barzani is what to do in order to turn state-building rhetoric into a future Kurdish state.
A report from the war-torn city of Kobanê about the people trying to rebuild what Daesh and US bombs have destroyed.
On the history of anarchism in Turkey and establishing alternatives to the current system through self-organisation, mutual aid and co-operatives.
There's not much the US can do in a post-Saddam Middle East except practice containment (and keep up airpower)—another invasion of foreign occupiers will only drive yet more legitimacy to Daesh.
A future independent Kurdish state faces many political, economic, and administrative challenges, but its success could be a game-changer in the Middle East.
Syrian Kurds have won a strategic victory in Tel Abyad, uniting two of their self-run cantons and putting ISIS on the back foot.
Three Sunni men from Mosul describe life under the so-called Islamic State.
Why has self-immolation become an alarmingly common trend in the Kurdish region of northern Iraq since the fall of Saddam Hussein?
With its stance on Kobane, Ankara is in danger of undoing advances in the Kurdish peace process. It must act boldly now to set things back on course.
Decades of energy colonialism in the Middle East come face to face with a democratic challenge in Rojava (Syrian Kurdistan).
As the Iraqi crisis haunts the Kurds, double standards in the principle of self-determination come to the fore.
We must acknowledge women's agency without allocating gratuitous attention to physical appearances or banal insinuations regarding their somehow 'illicit' deviation from conventional roles.
