Here is the unbelievable tale of Mehrdad Sabouri, Jewish by religion, Kurdish by culture, and the hell he and his brothers endured in Iran: “The Saga of an Iranian Jewish Kurdish Labor Activist,” by Aida Ghajar, Iran Wire, January 15, 2026: He pressed the barrel of the gun against my chest. I pushed him. The […]
Trump’s Betrayal of the Kurds
Next to the Jews of Israel, it is the Kurds who have been the most loyal and effective allies of the United States in the Middle East. It was the Kurds who helped the Americans defeat the Islamic State (ISIS) in both Syria and Iraq; it was the Kurds who took on themselves the task […]
Israel’s Security Interests and a Kurdish State
Discussion of the Kurdish Question — whether, and how, and where, an independent Kurdish state can come into existence — and the role of Israel in furthering that goal, can be found here: “Why Israel’s security interests now depend on supporting the Kurds – opinion,” by Suzan Quitaz, Jerusalem Post, November 30, 2025: Two significant […]
Kurds in Iran Want a Separate Kurdish State
In Iran, the Persians constitute a little more than half of the population. The rest are Kurds, Azeris, Baluchis, and Arabs, all of whom chafe under Persian control. There are fifteen million Kurds in Iran, who constitute nearly 17% of Iran’s population. Now with Iran suffering a historic drought that may lead to the forced […]
Downed Drones Prove That Syrian Government Is Collaborating with ISIS Against Syrian Kurds
Recently, the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), a largely Kurdish armed group which had in the past helped the Americans fight the Islamic State (ISIS), discovered that two ISIS drones it had downed had been launched from areas where the government of Ahmed al-Sharaa holds sway. Al-Sharaa, of course, has been assuring Washington that he has […]
Syrian Kurds to ‘lay down weapons’ when fight against the Islamic State is over
Strongman Islamic supremacist Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan was foremost among those who aided in the overthrow of Syria’s Bashar al-Assad by al-Qaeda-linked leader Abu Mohammad al-Julani, who changed his name to Ahmed Hussein al-Sharaa for tactical reasons. Turkey and the new Syrian jihadist leadership, Hayat Tahrir al Sham (HTS), have been demanding “the removal […]
Greece ‘fiercely lobbying France’ to halt sale of radar-guided, air-to-air Meteor missiles to Turkey
In November 2022, I wrote this at Jihad Watch: Turkey dealing with both Russia and Ukraine, using the war as an opportunity to expand its regional influence: Turkey is expanding its influence while bullying Greece in the process, to the point of widespread fears of an outbreak of war between two NATO members. Yet no NATO member, or any […]
Germany: ISIS jihadis attack Kurds marking anniversary of liberation of Kurdish city from ISIS, stab Kurdish leader
Not in Kurdistan. In Germany. Wir schaffen das! “2 ISIS members attack Kurds attending an event in Kiel,” ANF News, January 25, 2025 (thanks to The Religion of Peace): ISIS members attacked an event marking the 10th anniversary of the liberation of Kobanê from ISIS and wounded Muhammet İlhan Aslan with a knife. In the […]
Erdogan demands that Israel withdraw from Syria and ‘everyone take their hands off Syria’
Turkey is a dangerous Islamic supremacist state under its President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who has expansionary goals of a revived Ottoman Empire with himself as caliph. And he’s getting closer. Now Erdogan is threatening Israel over Syria: “Israel rebuffs ‘imperialist’ Turkey after Erdogan says it must withdraw from Syria,” by Amy Spiro, Times of Israel, […]
Turkey Declares Its Goal is to Eliminate Kurdish Militias in Syria
The Kurds have been the most effective ally of the U.S. in the campaign to destroy ISIS in Syria. The Kurds in Iraq also helped the American military to defeat ISIS in that country as well. Now the Kurdish militia (YPG) in Syria are threatened with destruction by Erdogan, who backed the jihadist rebels of […]