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![<p>Iranian Kurdish fighters from the Kurdistan Freedom Party (PAK) participate in a training session at a base on the outskirts of Erbil, Iraq, February 12, 2026.</p>]()
![Timeline: The Kurds’ Long Struggle With Statelessness]()
By Hagit Ariav and Mariel Ferragamo![Post-American Middle East]()
By Richard Haass![<p>A Kurdish Peshmerga soldier holds a Kurdistan flag during a deployment in the area near the northern Iraqi border with Syria</p>]()
By Steven A. Cook- By Lindsay Maizland
- By Philip H. Gordon
![Man standing in a dust storm]()
By CFR Editors- By Max Boot
![<p>People flee Turkish airstrikes in the Kurdish-held border town of Ras al Ain on October 9.</p>]()
By James M. Lindsay- By Steven A. Cook
![<p>Afghanistan’s President Ashraf Ghani talks with the U.S. Special Envoy Zalmay Khalilzad during a meeting in Kabul, Afghanistan, on January 27, 2019.</p>]()
By Center for Preventive Action![<p>Fighters of the Syrian Democratic Forces visit the graves of their late comrades at a cemetery in Kobani, Syria.</p>]()
By CFR Staff![<p>Kurdish fighters of the Syrian Democratic Forces gather in Raqqa, shortly after retaking it from the Islamic State. </p>]()
By Steven A. Cook![<p>A Syrian Kurdish woman hugs the tombstone of a fallen Syrian Democratic Forces fighter at a cemetery in Qamishli.</p>]()
By Philip H. Gordon![<p>Barham Salih, Iraq’s new president, walks with new Prime Minister Adel Abdul-Mahdi at the parliament headquarters in Baghdad.</p>]()
By Meghan L. O'Sullivan![<p>The Blue Mosque, also called the Sultanahmet Mosque, is seen from a ferry in Istanbul, Turkey’s largest city, on April 11, 2017.</p>]()
By CFR Staff![<p>Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan meets with Nationalist Movement Party leader Devlet Bahceli in Ankara, Turkey, on June 27, 2018. </p>]()
By Center for Preventive Action and Henri J. Barkey![<p>Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan speaks during a ceremony in Ankara, Turkey</p>]()
By Steven A. Cook![<p>Members of Iraqi federal forces gather to continue to advance in military vehicles in Kirkuk on October 16, 2017 (REUTERS/Stringer).</p>]()
By Steven A. Cook
