Tag: Kurds

Are Kurdish Fighters Launching Operations Along the Iran-Iraq Border?

The Editors - March 6, 2026

Hundreds of Kurdish fighters were reported to have launched ground activity inside Iran from the Iraq border, aiming to pressure Iranian security forces and...

Blackwater Founder Eric Prince on ISIS

Richard C. Young - June 27, 2024

UPDATE 6.20.24: Erik Prince gives an update on the world's hotspots. Watch: UPDATE 3.25.22: Erik Prince, founder of Blackwater Worldwide has a different approach to...

What are America’s Limited Interests in Syria in 2018?

Richard C. Young - April 13, 2018

“Emotions should not be allowed to overrule what the president has thought and expressed many times: while the outcome of Syria’s civil war may...

Kurds Defeat ISIS on the Ground

Debbie Young - November 19, 2015

Bernard-Henri Lévy is one of France's most famed philosophers, a journalist, and a bestselling writer. Here he discusses ISIS and how the Kurds have...

MAP: Patchwork Syria

The Editors - December 30, 2014

Competing religious groups and ethnicities are tearing Syria into a patchwork of localized spheres of control. Stratfor (subscription required) has developed a map illustrating the...

Can Air Power Stop ISIS?

The Editors - October 8, 2014

Syrian-Kurdish forces are being pressured in Kobane, Syria by IS. The town is a strategic border crossing with Turkey. If it’s taken foreign fighters...

Iran is the Key for Iraq

Richard C. Young - October 2, 2014

Here Peter Van Buren offers a well thought out ten point outline of what to look for in the battle against ISIS. 1) “Inclusive” Government A...

Battle of Amirli

Richard C. Young - September 2, 2014

By working in concert and with assistance from U.S. airstrikes, the Iraqi military, Shiite militiamen and Kurdish peshmerga forces have pushed ISIS back from Amirli, saving...