epc.ae Sardar Aziz In the Kurdistan Region of Iraq (KRI), gas is a relatively new industry rapidly growing in importance. The region has a massive amount of gas, accounting for an estimated 3 percent of...
At the same time, the United States often finds itself supporting nations or groups of fighters in the Middle East who make for rather dubious allies. It supported the mujahideen in Afghanistan, which turned into...
By Hamíit Qliji Bérai Social sciences false information facilities dominate the world. The international mind is filled with falsehoods. Wrong information = wrong understanding, which leads to wrong ideas. Now, during four centuries of the...
Are Turks really fighting ISIS? The reporter reveals that when you try to search the war declared by Turkey against ISIS in the so-called operation Euphrates Shield you come up empty handed; no photos of corpses of combatants...
By James M. Dorsey A podcast version of this article is available at https://soundcloud.com/user-153425019/attack-in-iran-raises-spectre-of-a-potentially-far-larger-conflagration An attack on a military parade in the southern Iranian city of Ahwaz is likely to prompt Iranian retaliation against opposition...
Djene Bajalan The death in September of a 22-year-old Iranian Kurdish woman, Jîna (Mahsa) Amini, whilst in the custody of the Tehran branch of the Gasht-e Ershad—Iran’s “morality police”—served as the catalyst for a wave...
Kani Xulam 14 – 18 minutes In 1893, a group of Armenian university students visited Leo Tolstoy at his home. They wanted to talk to him about the plight of their Armenian compatriots in Ottoman-Armenia....
Afrin besieged by Turkey: analysis (geopolitical) By Chris Den Hond Translate By : Hassan Ghazi During the round table in the premises of the Syrian Research Center, on “political issues in Syria” on March 18,...
Introduction This paper introduces a medieval philosopher within a project of alternatives to the Eurocentric context that dominates current thinking in human sciences. Ibn Khaldun, from the 14th century, is renowned in both the...
Matt Broomfield reports from Rojava Last night I slept in a Kurdish friend’s house here in Rojava. His daughter, brash and confident at 6, stood on a table and performed the songs she has been...