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By MECRA staff Co-chair of the Syrian Democratic Council (SDC) Ilham Ahmed this week said the Syrian regime has agreed to begin political...

By SETH J. FRANTZMAN A new ruling by the Yazidi Supreme Spiritual Council has sought to help solve one of the more complex and controvers...

Iranian-Kurdish movie director Shepol Abbasi has put the final touches on his new movie “Performance of the Dead,” which will be released...

Kurdish protesters gathered outside of a Turkish army base on January 26 in northern Iraq's Kurdish region. This area along the border ha...

Eastern Syria fears Turkish incursion By MECRA STAFF Interview with Amjad Othman, spokesman of the Syrian Democratic Council (SDC) MECRA:...

By SETH J. FRANTZMAN The long, lonely road from Dohuk in the Kurdistan region to Sinjar, the site of the ISIS genocide of Yazidis, is sym...

By ZACH HUFF “You’re in Iran, now,” the grinning patrol leader nonchalantly informed me as we reached a summit of the Zagros mountain ran...

By DILIMAN ABDULKADER Iraq held its first elections since the defeat of the so called Islamic State (ISIS), the results surprised all maj...

By IRFAN AZEEZ AZEEZ In the wake of the Iraqi elections, there are still plenty of questions to answer, not least regarding the KDP’s pos...

By SETH J. FRANTZMAN The following questions were sent to the Kurdistan Regional Government in February. Falah Mustafa Bakir is the head ...