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The Kurds who are widely considered to be the most enormous population without a state have today caught the attention of the world, in particular the west as well as ...

On May 19th Iran went to the polls and Hassan Rouhani was re-elected by a majority. The campaign was about the economy, minority rights and reforms. In theory, when we ...
Where did ISIS came from? Credits : syrianfreepress

Currently, Daesh is considered the richest terrorist group in history. Daesh earn $2.9 billion each year thanks to their various sources of income. The main objective of Daesh is to ...

Current world politics leads to open-ended and ongoing processes of change. But contradictions remain the main obstacle to the advancement of world politics. This article illustrates contradiction within world politics, ...

Recep Tayyip Erdoğan will arrive to the White House tomorrow, there are two perspectives on what Turkish will discuss with Trump. On the one hand, Erdoğan uses the meeting as ...

Coming Crawling Back: ISIS Seeks Alliance with Al-Qaeda. (This post was  originally published by Young Diplomats Partner Geopolitics Made Super and is written by Ryan Bohl). From Reuters: Islamic State is talking to al ...
Young Diplomats Kurdistan

Kurdistan, ‘The Land of the Kurds,’ internationally recognized as an area with territory in four different countries – Turkey, Iran, Syria and Iraq. Even though its territory technically lies within ...

Saudi Arabia declared in December 2015 that it would form a NATO-style military alliance to combat terrorism. Initially the Muslim NATO consisted of 34 Sunni Muslim states; later the Muslim ...

The Kurds in Iraq and the two leading political parties in the Kurdistan region of Iraq, the PUK and the PDK (Patriotic Union and Democratic Party), are certain about holding ...

Mosul city was taken over by ISIS in 2014 and since then it is considered as its most significant strategic win. Before being declared as a global caliphate by Abu-Bakr ...