The Amargi

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The social media accounts linked to from The Amargi are: • Facebook • Instagram • TikTok • YouTube • LinkedIn • Threads • X • Bluesky Besides social media accounts, theamargi has populated their site with: • Support our mission with a donation ❤️ • Fidan’s Anti-Rojava Policy is Failing the Peace Process • The Digital Iron Curtain: Iran’s New Architecture of Isolation • Reza Pahlavi’s Vision for Iran Guarantees Failure • Iran’s Unrest and the Myth of Easy Revolution • Islamist Authority Closes In on Syrian Women • When Life Becomes Impossible: Iran's Uprising with Sanaz Azimipour • Kurds Seek Power-Sharing Arrangement in Damascus Following U.S. Abandonment • Damascus Demands 'Complete Surrender' from Kurds Amid Escalating Conflict in Syria - YouTube • Kurds in Turkey March to Rojava • Erdoğan’s Nationalist Ally Sets Syria Roadmap, Targets Kurdish Autonomy • Iraq on High Alert as ISIS Prison Breaks in Syria Spark Security Fears • The Amargi Sources: Iran-backed Iraqi Militias Deployed to Crackdown on Protests in Iran • Yazidis Fear ISIS Revival as Chaos in Syria Reaches Iraq’s Border • www.theamargi.com • Academics Worldwide Issue Solidarity Statement as Universities in Rojava Face Escalating Attacks • Are the Kurds facing another 1975? • Why Poland’s (Political) Culture Has Failed to Embrace the Kurdish Cause • Who Are the Bazaar Merchants Who Sparked Iran’s Protests? • Northern Syria Faces Humanitarian Crisis as Kurdish Forces and Damascus Fail to Reach Agreement • Iran Admits More Than Three Thousand Killed in Protests • The Return of Thucydides at Davos: Mark Carney, a Broken World Order, and the Kurdish Moment of Truth • Fearing Israel’s Regional Hegemony, Turkey Closes Ranks Around Stability in Iran • A Ticking Bomb at the Center of Syria: The Amargi Visits Al-Hol After SDF Withdrawal • Rojava: The Democracy that the West Chose to Sacrifice • Trapped in Kobane: The City That Defeated ISIS Now Struggles to Survive • How Rojava Underscores the Need for a New Security Paradigm in Europe • From Tea to Latte: Erbil’s Quiet Social Revolution • After ISIS, Another Threat: Why Rojava Fears History Is Repeating Itself • Kurds in Syria Defend their Neighborhoods • At the Frontline in Hasake: Kurds Refuse to Surrender as Syrian Army Advances • The Strategic Paradox of Targeting Iran’s Supreme Leader • Will Syria’s New Currency Ease Inflation? • Kurdish Diaspora Protests Rojava Attacks Outside UN Headquarters in New York • DEM Party Co-Chair Warns Turkey: Attacks on Kurds in Rojava Are Killing Hope for Peace in Turkey • UN Extends Mandates on Iran as Tensions Continue to Rise • Russia Withdraws Forces From Qamishlo Airport in Northeast Syria • Homs, Syria: Film Club Creates Peace Amidst Sectarian Tension • Kurdish Rights on Trial in the UK • Turkish opposition leader Özel: Syrian Kurds’ Demands Should Not Be Treated as Threats • Searching for Trump in Literature • Faith Under Fire: Syria’s Christians Seek Justice After Church Bombing • The Iraqi Presidency: From a Kurdish Prize to a Battlefield Between KDP and PUK • Debunking the Syrian State Narrative of “Abandoned” ISIS Camp in al-Hol • Ceasefire and Integration Agreement Reached Between Damascus and SDF • Beyond Analogy and Betrayal: Understanding the Assault on Rojava as Counter-Revolution • UN Secretary-General Says Kurds Are “Victims of History” but Sidesteps Self-Determination Question • Reza Pahlavi and the Politics of False Hope in Iran’s Protests • www.youtube.com • There Are No Terrorists Until The System Needs One • What Mustafa Barzani’s 1975 Letter to Kissinger Tells Us About the U.S. Abandonment of the SDF • Coming Into U.S. Politics as an Outsider: Councilwoman-elect Naren Briar • Kurdish Student Tortured for Allegedly Lowering Turkish Flag • Explainer: The West & the Kurds; from Sykes-Picot to Save the Kurds Act • Rojava Is the Kurds’ Existential Struggle • Rojava at the Brink: Why the SDF–Damascus Agreement Risks Ending Kurdish Autonomy in Syria • “Yarmouk Is the Cemetery for ISIS”: Inside the Camp That Survived the Caliphate and Fears Its Return • Damascus Backs Kurdish Nominee for Hasakah Governor in Ceasefire Deal With SDF • Syria-SDF Integration Deal: From Paper to Practice—The Long Road Ahead • The Alliance That Broke Rojava: Arab Tribes and the Fall of Kurdish Control • [The Amargi Exclusive] Investigating the Syrian Army’s Abuses • Limits of Solidarity: Rojava, Kurds, and Kurdistan • Turkey Opens Investigations Over Solidarity with Kurdish Women • The Islamic Republic of Iran: A Struggle Between War and Submission • Does Turkey Have a New Kurdish Policy or are They Continuing a Century-Old Strategy? • Are We Entering a New Sunni-Arc Middle Eastern Era? • Iran’s Hostage Diplomacy is Vicious, Frightening, and Effective • Syrian Conflict Spillover Fuels Attacks on Kurdish Communities in Germany • France Signals Support for Kurdish Rights in Syria • Syria’s Unity Is Not Inevitable: The History of a Modern State and a Crisis That Force Cannot Resolve • Tehran and Washington Back to Talks Amid Military Tensions • From Missing Children to Geopolitical Blackmail: Turkey in the Epstein Files • [Explainer] The Minorities in Iran • American-Kurdish relationship: Tactical vs. Moral • Can Rojava’s Kurdish Project Survive Middle Eastern Fascism? • U.S. and Iran Negotiate on the Edge of Conflict • Islamists Have Lost the Kurdish Public • Evren Balta: Trump Is Not an Anomaly, but a Destructive Accelerator • Kurdish MP on Turkey's Regional Strategy with Ceylan Akça • [SATIRE] Iranian Government: Why Do People Expect Us to Govern? • New Security Arrangements Tested in Rojava, Northeast Syria • Siahkal and the Emergence of Armed Struggle Against the Shah: Selective Memory and Today’s Uprising in Iran • Children’s Education Suspended in Rojava, North and East Syria • Iran Cracks down on Reformists • From White Scarf to Hair Braiding: Kurdish Resistance Through Civil Disobedience and Symbolism • Fifty Unidentified Female Protesters Found in Tehran Morgue – Islamic Regime’s Use of Gendered State Violence • Öcalan’s Quiet Leverage: How İmralı Shaped Rojava’s January De-escalation • Under Islamist Chants, Damascus’s Kurdish Zorava Neighbourhood Comes Under Pressure • Rojava Protests: Kurdish Youth’s Reckoning • DEM’s Imrali Delegation Meets Erdogan To Revive Stalled Peace Process • Turkish FM Signals Syria-Style Approach in Iraq, Baghdad Summons Ambassador • Behind Iran’s Missile Programme: Development, Deterrence and Survival • Ankara’s Ownership Over Syria • European Parliament Pushes for Action Against Violence Imposed On Rojava, Northeast Syria’s Kurds • Turkey Signals Greater Flexibility in Iran–US Nuclear Talks • Syrian Integration Deal Fails to Alleviate Civilian Suffering in Kobani • Explainer: How the 1979 Iranian Revolution Really Happened And How It Was Hijacked • Terrifying Similarities: Germany in the Era of the Weimar Republic and Arab Nationalists Today • How Paramilitaries Reordered Land and Village Life in Kurdistan • Pahlavism as Postponement: The Afterlife of IRI’s Geopolitical Exceptionalism in a post-October 7 Middle East • Why Iraqi Kurdistan’s Political Deadlock Is a Structural Crisis • Rethinking Kurdish Foreign Policy Through the American Experience • Iran’s Protest Crackdown Relies on Targeted Force and Intimidation, Says Sociologist • Four times Displaced: A Kurdish Family’s Struggle for Safety in the Wake of War • Documenting War Crimes in Rojava: Interview with CPT’s Kamaran Osman • ISIS Resurgence Looms as Syria Transitions Away from SDF Partnership • Resistance and Repression in 1979 Iranian Kurdistan: Chronology • Munich Becomes a Battleground For Iran’s Future • [The Amargi Exclusive] General Mazloum Abdi: Did Munich Change Syria’s Future? • - YouTube • Akbelen Eco-Resistance Against Fast-Track Expropriation in Turkey • Can a Political Council Break Kurdistan’s Year-Long Deadlock? • Displaced Families Prepare to Return to Afrin • How Mythology Shapes Revolution in Iran • Iranian Kurdish Parties Delay Landmark Coalition Agreement • DEM Party Announces ‘Democratic Integration’ Phase in Kurdish Peace Process Following Öcalan Meeting • Renowned Global Intellectuals Call to Defend Rojava’s Democratic Experiment • PKK Leader Abdullah Ocalan Warns Against “Terrorism” Framing in Peace Process • Geneva Nuclear Talks End on Mixed Notes Amid Military Posturing • On The Frontlines, Christians And Yazidis Fear SDF-Damascus Deal • Erdoğan Names Controversial Prosecutor as Turkey’s New Justice Minister • Equal Citizens or Second Class? Syria's Minorities Post-Assad with Nadine Maenza • Syrian-Kurdish Leader Calls for Constitutional Guarantees to Prevent Renewed Fighting in Syria at Munich Security Conference • Syria’s Centralisation Could Strangle the Kurdistan Region’s Autonomy • U.S. to Withdraw All Troops from Syria Within Two Months • Turkey, Iran, and the Regional Balance After October 7 • Renaming Syria’s Schools Signals Broad Ideological Shift • Gaza: Makeshift Schools Open in Tents and Shelters • Turkey’s Peace Process Enters New Phase as Kurdish Report Approved • Rojava’s Future in Syria? Ilham Ahmed on Decentralization, Women’s Rights & Guarantees • Syrian Security Raids Deir ez-Zor Oil Refineries • Is Iran Facing a Social Revolution? • Turkey detains six European rights activists investigating prison conditions in the country • Five Iranian Kurdish Parties Form Coalition, Two Others Refrained • In Support of Brotherhood Between Peoples • How MIGA shapes MAGA’s foreign policy toward Iran • Analysts: China Won’t Risk Clash with Washington to Back Iran • Democratising Iran Requires Decentralisation • Student Protests Return to Iranian Campuses After January Crackdown • ISIS Calls for Jihad Against Syria’s New Leadership as Attacks Intensify in the East • Critical Phase for SDF-Damascus Agreement as Afrin Returns Start • Black Sea Waste Dump by Erdogan-linked Tycoon Sparks Backlash • How to be a Dictator: Adel Imam’s Cinematic Guide for the Ambitious Young Strongman • As Unrest Grew, Iranian Reformists Explored Limiting Khamenei’s Power • Why Citizenship Has Become the Promise and the Problem in Iran’s Transition? • Iran Opposition Group, MEK, Says Clashes with IRGC Near Iran’s Supreme Leader Compound Left Over 100 Casualties • Iran Is Losing Its Major Strongholds • EU Memo Warns of Terror Risk After Mass Escape from Al-Hol Camp • Iran’s Economy Is Collapsing • The Iranian Flag Divide: Identity War in Exile • Families of Captured SDF Fighters Demand Answers as Months Pass Without News • More than 7,000 Killed in Iran’s ‘Crimson Winter’ Crackdown, Rights Group Says • Wining the Battle, Losing the War: America’s Limits in a War Against Iran • Suwayda’s Druze Demand Autonomy as a Minimum • Trump Warns Iran While U.S. Military Buildup Continues • As ISIS Detainees Are Transferred, Turkey and Iraq Face Reckoning Over Justice and Impunity • DEM Party Ties Turkey’s Kurdish Peace to Regional Stability as Iran Intervention Looms • Öcalan: Call For Democratic Republic • In Syria’s Northeast, Theatre is Healing Traumatized Children • Syria’s Druze authority secure prisoner swap with Damascus, amid state restrictions • Abandoned by Allies, Rojava’s Kurdish Experiment Confronts Power Politics and an Uncertain Future • Kurdish–Arab Internationalism and Solidarity in the Archives • EXPLAINER: Why the U.S. and Israel Just Struck Iran, and How a 47-Year Rivalry Became Open War • What triggered the war between the US, Israel and Iran • Turkish Teacher Disciplined for “Praising Armenians” • Turkey's Neo-Ottomanism vs. Greater Israel with Dr Nicholas Matheou • As Iran’s Unrest Grows, Reza Pahlavi’s Leadership Claim Faces a Test of Legitimacy • Which Iranian Commanders Were Killed in the Strikes, Beyond the Supreme Leader? • Kurdish Leaders React to U.S.–Israeli Strikes That Killed Iran’s Supreme Leader • Erbil Suffers Second Night of Iranian Drone Attacks as Iran War Expands • Risks and advantages of regime change in Iran • Reports Reveal Deadly Iranian Crackdown in Shahbad During Protests • “Hezbollah Made a Fatal Mistake”: Lebanese Professor Says Group Gave Israel Pretext as Fighting Resumes • Damascus Issues General Amnesty, But Justice Is Still Missing in Syria • In Their First Statement, Iranian Kurdish Alliance Signals Readiness for Regime Change • Ali Khamenei: A Political Biography • Nuri al-Maliki: The US Foreign Policy, from Regime Change to Leadership Change • DEM Party Calls for Legal Recognition Of Öcalan’s Status, Outlines “Democratic Integration” Roadmap • Turkey Peace Process Falls Short of Expectations, Turkish Rights Group Says • Turkish FM Calls Iran’s Retaliatory Strikes across Gulf States as “Incredibly Wrong Strategy” • Iran Denies Launching Missile at Turkey as NATO Neutralizes Threat in Eastern Mediterranean • How Zarok TV is Helping Preserve the Kurdish Language • Reconstruction in Syria Between External Investment and the Reproduction of Political Rent • Istanbul Funeral Sees Women Bear Coffins in Outrage Over Child Abuse Case • Israel as Proxy, Not Puppet Master: How US Imperial Logic Drives the Alliance – Not the Lobby • Germany Backs U.S.–Israeli Strikes on Iran, Despite Staying Out of the War • Sexually Abused Children Face Deportation After Swiss Court Ruling • Kurds Used Again? Khamenei is Dead; What Comes Next, Pahlavi or Khamenei's 2.0? • Despite Latest Unification Decree, Peshmerga Remains Deeply Partisan • From Torture Center to Memorial, Amna Suraka Chronicles Saddam’s Brutality in Slemani • Democracy will not come to Iran with a Prince • Endgame in Iran: Trump’s Kurdish Outreach and Israel’s Pahlavi Bet | Interview with Michael Rubin • Forgotten History: Kurdistan’s Brief Freedom (1979) and the Year Khomeini Ended It (1980) • Iraqi Kurds at a Historical Crossroads • On International Women’s Day, Women in Turkey Resist Femicide and Violence • Iraqi Kurdistan Region Hit by 196 Drone and Missile Attacks Since War Began, monitor says • SCOOP: Surveillance Technology Contractor Sues Masrour Barzani, Seeks $460 Million in New York • Mojtaba Khamenei named as Iran’s new Supreme Leader • Erdogan’s rival Imamoglu faces 142 charges • How War Reshaped Ramadan in Gaza • Criticism mounts over Turkish government’s response to Iran war • Women’s Rights at Stake in Syria’s Integration Agreement • State violence targets children in Turkey, rights advocates warn • Oil Prices Swing Wildly as U.S.-Israel War on Iran Exposes Strategic Rifts • [SCOOP] Tehran offers Kurds concessions, Kurdish leaders have not answered • Damascus takeover shatters Arab-Kurd coexistence in Raqqa • Islamist attacks on Rojava forge Kurdish-European solidarity • Why Russia Offers Iran Only Rhetoric in Its Hour of Need • Iranian nationalism and food prices rising in Iran, local sources say • Recusal denied in İmamoğlu trial • Climbing the Damascus mountains • International reactions to the US-Israeli war on Iran • SCOOP: Behind the frontline – why Kurdish parties have not entered Iran’s war • Kurdistan turns to renewable energy • BOOK REVIEW: Women of Komala by Fatemeh Karimi • Azerbaijani Turks face a vital crossroads in Iran’s Future • Newroz celebrated as national holiday in Syria amid tensions over symbols • Lebanon has undergone three weeks of loss and survival • Kurdish athlete defies Turkish ban, trains for Olympics in UK • Iraq losing $200 Million a day in oil revenue, MP says • Turkish draft law targets LGBTI+ community • The other Kurdish War: How the KDP and PKK are competing for hearts and minds • [Iranian Kurdish Parties] The Kurdistan Free Life Party (PJAK) • Salvation: universalizing Kurdish trauma in Turkish cinema • Newroz unrest exposes Syria’s fragile integration process, YPJ exclusion • Who Gets to Be Furious? The Right to Humanity with Şeyda Kurt • Turkey’s judiciary targets yet another investigative journalist • Iraqi Kurdistan mourns six Peshmerga killed in Iranian strike as war spillover widens • Kurdish dilemma in Iraq, stuck between Washington and Tehran • Kurdish studies conference opens in Turin University • Evidence crumbles in jailed Istanbul mayor’s corruption trial • Kurdish Studies Conference in Turin – day two • How elite networks shape war and accountability in the Liberal International Order, from Epstein to Iran • Why the Iranian diaspora is waving Israeli flags? • Europe ‘not immune’ to economic fallout from Hormuz crisis, experts warn • Turkish-operated oil tanker targeted near Bosphorus • Ceasefire prospects dominate as Hormuz becomes focal point in Iran war • Turkish media claims Erdogan foiled Israel’s Kurdish proxy plan in Iran • Hasakah floods destroy 1,700 homes and farmlands • Zehra Doğan: Art as a witness • SCOOP: KRG closes Iranian Kurdish parties’ offices due to Iran pressure • Öcalan says Talks have reached ‘critical turning point’, urges democratic path over war • Why is Iran attacking Sulaimani in Kurdistan Region of Iraq? • Suwayda massacres amount to war crimes, UN Syria Commission finds • Germany invests in Syria, wants 80% of Syrian refugees out • Iran executes four Mujahedin-e Khalq political prisoners • A new era for the Kurdish movement in Iran • Frontline medics caught between life and death in Lebanon • Iran’s IRGC is recruiting child soldiers • Emmy-winning filmmaker explores war’s hidden aftermath in Rojava • Turkmen Sahra’s consequential ‘No’ • The youngest victims of war in Lebanon • Turkey’s opposition leader plans mass MP resignations to force early vote • Will future Iran abandon the grand narrative? All signs say no • Calls converge for swift legal reforms in Turkey’s Kurdish peace talks • NATO command plans put Turkey’s Montreux ‘red line’ back in focus • Iran war deepens Iraq’s presidential deadlock • Christianity’s Katechon and Shias’ Imam al-Mahdi • Eid in Gaza • “Ey Iran” — but whose Iran? • Italy set to become first in Europe to operate Turkish TB-3 drones • Who Will Decide Iraq’s Next Prime Minister, the U.S. or Iran? • John Bolton Warns of Greater Risk if Iran Regime Survives • Resisting in Grief: defending lives through mourning in Turkey • Syrian Christians in Erbil caught in prolonged exile • Trump wanted Iran’s Kurds for war, will he exclude them from peace? • Israel’s killing of journalists amounts to war crimes, UN experts say • Koraw: Exodus and the birth of the KRG • How Iran hunts its dissidents beyond its borders • Why Kurdish homes in Afrin cannot be reclaimed • How Iran’s Baloch frame the U.S.-Israel war • For the peoples of Jazira, there are no friends but the Steppes • Moscow trip by Turkish coalition figure reveals push for “Turkey-Russia-China axis” • U.S.-Iran ceasefire strained by Lebanon conflict, Islamabad talks stall • Every time we left planet Earth • [Satire] Freedom, delivered in 48-72 business hours • Why Dr. Ghassemlou’s vision matters more than ever • Syria’s Islamist obsession over alcohol flares social tension • Lebanon’s bloody Wednesday • A Palestinian perspective on Israel’s death penalty law • Government, pro-Kurdish party trade blame over Turkey’s stalled peace talks • Turkey indicts Netanyahu in criminal case • Major breakthrough in Turkey’s landmark femicide case, governor’s son among detainees • How Erbil became a safe haven for former Iraqi Ba’athists • Druze shrine desecration at UNESCO site exposes systemic religious repression in Syria • ECtHR notifies Turkey in Imamoglu case • How a writer survived the Syrian war • Why Pakistan pushed itself as mediator in US-Iran conflict • A ceasefire that leaves Iranian Kurds behind • Why peace is bad business in the Iran war • China pushes Middle East peace initiative as US-Iran ceasefire nears end • Recycling workers in Istanbul face social stigma, eviction efforts, and uncertainty • Gulf states must adapt to new regional order • The burden of trauma from Assad’s prisons • Turkish opposition declares US Envoy Barrack persona non grata over praise of ‘benevolent monarchies’ • Hormuz Strait opens as Trump hints U.S.-Iran talks this weekend • Lebanese medics kept saving lives as the missiles fell • Intra-Kurdish conflict and the struggle for hegemony in post-1979 Rojhelat • How Iranian monarchist networks built ties to Europe’s far-right • Rojava, beneath the revolution • Ending Iran war not enough for exiled women to return • Exile Talks: Kurdistan • Clashing visions for Syria stall deal with Kurds • Armenia is collateral damage in the Iran war • Turkish FM celebrates Kirkuk’s first Turkmen governor after a century • What is the UN Security Council prioritizing within Syria’s transition? • The legacy of the Armenian genocide in northern Syria • An obituary to the Kurdistan Region’s political opposition • The Iraqi prime minister’s post – the other US-Iran war • Eren Keskin: Doku case exposes state impunity, not a rogue network • Turkey in the shadow of April 24 • How a cassette shop in Diyarbakır preserved Kurdish music • Iran’s Kurds navigate war through diplomacy • Could Iran trade its nuclear program for the Strait? • Hezbollah buries its fighters amid a fragile ceasefire • After 95 days in solitary, missing German journalist found alive in Syria • The environmental catastrophe behind the US–Iran War • Deals with Assad-era tycoons, reappointments spark justice outcry in Syria • King Charles in Washington, Britain in Retreat • The middle class empowers Middle Eastern fascism • I am in Isfahan, let me tell you how we think of war • Faruq Rafiq, Kurdish intellectual who bridged philosophy and public life, has died • Why divorce is on the rise in Iraqi Kurdistan • Global military spending hits record high • Why is Turkey one of the world’s worst countries for journalists? • What happened to justice for Yazidis? • Golan Heights Druze face renewed identity crisis as naturalization bids rise • ‘Archive of Absence’ traces Iranian exile lives in Berlin • Middle East remains world’s worst region for press freedom, RSF 2026 Index • Death at the workplace and unpaid wages: Turkey’s workers on May Day • The never-ending Iraqi Kurdish civil war: Why? • Ruined infrastructure limits Syria’s capacity as Hormuz alternative • Damascus’s demands threaten education in Suwayda • US anti-ISIS budget sidelines Peshmerga, leaves SDF unnamed • Iran’s regime shaken not transformed, warns analyst • Bahceli opens door to Ocalan role as Apoist Movement warns Ankara • How Iraqi Kurds learned to play Washington’s lobbying game • Iraq’s next prime minister risks his credibility by overpromising • Turkish religious authority bans Kurdish in Friday sermons • Haunted by the 2016 witch-hunt, Turkey’s intellectuals hesitate on peace • Armenia unexpectedly echoes Azerbaijan’s narratives as parliamentary elections approach • Deq: tattoos made of breast milk and ash • Weddings return to Gaza, smaller but persistent • Fixers, friends and firms: inside the KRG’s Washington lobbying network • Rojava, Takfirism, and the Kurdish Place in the Ummah • Literature is an antidote to turmoil • No More Women’s Rights in Raqqa • Iran’s Uprising: What Comes Next? • Iran Update: Brutal Silencing and a Fractured International Response • Kurdish Leaders Demand Accountability After Deadly Attacks on Aleppo’s Kurdish Neighborhoods • Explainer: Why Is Turkey Opposing Syrian Kurds While Talking Peace at Home? • Iran: The Islamic Regime’s Collapse • The Maduro Test: Is Turkey’s Strategic Ambiguity Starting to Crack? • Damascus and Qamishlo: A Deal on Paper, a Conflict on the Ground • “A Historic Turning Point”: PDKI Leader Says Iran Is Too Weak to Recover • Abbas Vali Warns: Without a Democratic Alternative, “Anti-Democratic Forces” Could Hijack the Uprising in Iran • PJAK Co-Chair on Iran Protests, Israel Ties, Pahlavi, and Regime Change • [Amargi Exclusive] In the Zagros Mountains, PJAK’s Co-chair Says Iran has “Already Collapsed” and Warns Against “Another Dictatorship” • In the Zagros Mountains, PJAK’s Co-chair Says Iran has “Already Collapsed” and Warns Against “Another Dictatorship” • Press Freedom Under Strain in Iraq Amid Arrests and Intimidation • Sheikh Manea al-Jarba Warns Against Militarization, Calls for Dialogue as Syria Slides Deeper Into Crisis • ‘They had only stones’: witnesses describe deadly crackdown in Malekshahi • About the “Right to Kill” in the Middle East • China Deepens Ties to Kurdistan as Erbil Becomes a Political Hub • Turkey: No Court Decision in Criminal Case After 80 Hearings • Damascus Declares Aleppo’s Kurdish Neighborhoods a Military Zone • Progress on Iraqi Repatriations as Foreign ISIS Families Remain Stranded in Camps in Northeast Syria • Syria’s Six Remaining Jews Celebrate Hanukkah in Damascus • Iran’s New Protests Explained | Interview with Kamran Matin • KDP, PUK and Kurdish Opposition Field Separate Candidates for Iraqi Presidency • As Iran’s Protests Spread Nationwide, Kurdish Parties Break Their Silence • Who Are the Turkish-Backed Militias and Commanders Sanctioned by the UK Over Atrocities in Syria? • Kurdish Theatre in Istanbul: a Stage for Memory, Language, and Resistance • AI-Written Books Hit Iraqi Shelves, With Ghost Authors and Translators • Claims of Abuse of Ukrainian Orphans in Turkey Go Unprosecuted • What Happened in Iraq in 2025 • Iran Unrest Spreads as Rial Slide Triggers Shop Closures • Syria in 2025: Negotiations Abroad, Violence at Home • Öcalan Urges Momentum on Syria’s March-10 Deal as Talks Between SDF and Damascus Stall • Iran’s 2025: Failure, Failure, and Nationalism • Turkey in 2025: Stability at the Expense of Justice and Freedom • Suwayda in the Eyes of its Women: Between Resilience and Memories of Violence • Christians in Iraqi Kurdistan Express Growing Insecurities Despite Official Guarantees • Turkey's Regional Gamble: Military Expansion and Political Contradictions with Salim Çevik • From ISIS to new Syrian Government: The U.S. Security Dilemma in Syria • More than words: Decoding the crisis between Turkey and Barzani’s KDP • From Ceasefire to Collapse and Back Again: Why the Peace Question Keeps Returning • Armenian Union Party Launches in Northeast Syria Amid Political Transition • Displaced Syrians Say Return Home is Blocked by Turkish Veto • Suwayda: The Silence After the Victory Songs • Analysis: Party Reports on the Kurdish Question and the “Peace Process” – Turkey and Kurdistan • YPJ Says It Will Remain Independent Even if the SDF Joins Syria’s Army • Why the West’s story about the Middle East no longer fits reality • Deq: A Mesopotamian Tattoo Tradition Revived in Istanbul • A Wedding Fire Has Traumatized Iraq’s Christian Community • The Kurdish-Israeli Alliance: From Secret Ties to Public Strategy • Revisiting Churchill’s Racist Record Against the Kurds • Turkish Attacks on Journalists: A War Crime and Impunity • Alawite Women Abducted, Assaulted, and Silenced Under Syria’s New Rulers • YPJ General Commander Warns of Stalled Talks as March-10 Agreement Deadline Nears • Sipping in Silence: Fear and Alcohol Under Syria’s Islamist Authorities • Former Lafarge Employees: Lafarge Funded ISIS in Syria • Creating Worlds Through Song: Art and Activism with Dashni Morad • Why Tom Barrack is Wrong About Decentralization in the Middle East • Queer Iranians face violence and discrimination both at home and in exile • Kurdistan's Unique Position in the New Middle East with Jiyar Aghapouri | The Amargi Mosaic • Syrian Kurdish–Israeli Relations: Between Strategic Signaling and Silent Pragmatism • Weapons, Steel, Oil: How Turkey Continues to Fuel Israel’s War Machine • National Security Strategy Document: Pragmatism and the Turn Toward What Is Possible • The Najaf Filter and the Prime Minister’s Jammed Knot: Who Will Earn Sistani’s Trust? • Former US Ambassador Peter Galbraith Pushes Federal Constitution as Syria’s Last Shield Against Centralized Rule • How Azadi Park Shaped Slemani’s Political Memory • A President in Shreds: Ahmed al-Sharaa Between Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde • Explainer: What Is Iraq’s Federation Council and Why Is It Still Missing? • Danielle Mitterrand Prize Goes to Kurdish Municipalities: What It Means • A Journalist’s Escape: Rebin, Hero, Guli’s Story • Jalal Talabani’s 1980 Letter to A Naqashbandi Sheikh: Civil War in East Kurdistan and its Relevance Today • Turkey Puts Journalists’ Payments on Trial Amid Kurdish Peace Talks • Baghdad, Erbil: Pollution Is Causing Health Crises • Former Iraqi President Barham Salih to Become New U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees • New Middle East Order? Col. Myles Caggins on Syria, ISIS and US Strategy • One Year After Ahmad al-Sharaa’s Transformation • How the SDF Could Redraw Syria’s Power Map • A Deeper Look into Why Sectarian Violence is Escalating in Syria • The Kurdish Language in a Never-Ending Struggle: Bans, Resistance, and the New Peace Process • Updated: A New Moment for Peace: Istanbul Conference Launches with Öcalan’s Message and DEM Party Appeal • Exclusive Interview With DEM Party Co-chair: Inside Turkey’s Most Delicate Peace Process Yet • Imralı, Syria, and the Future of Kurds in Turkey: Bakırhan Maps the Entire Equation • 12 Years On: Who was the Journalist Kawa Garmyani and why was he Murdered in Kurdistan? • The KRG’s Failing Image Rebrand: Erbil’s Green Belt and the Irony of Planting Trees as Masses of Kurds Uproot to Europe • Violence in Homs Rekindles Sectarian Fears in a Fractured Syria • Exclusive Interview: PDKI Leader Says Kurds Ready for War and Peace With Iran • Osman Kavala on the Peace Process: In a Just Country, the Law of Brotherhood is Strengthened • How Feminist Kurdish and Arab Women in Syria are Defending their Gains • China’s Stance Toward Uyghur Militants in Syria: Geopolitical Bargaining, Regional Trades, and Great Power Competition • Legalize It? Between Policy and Reality in Lebanon’s Hash Trade • How Power Really Works in Post-Invasion Iraq with Renad Mansour • From Shatt al Arab to Val de Loire: the tribulations of an Iraqi-Sabean Human Rights activist • Protest Turns into Armed Clash near Erbil, with at Least One Killed • KDP Leader Masoud Barzani Reiterates His Support for the Peace Process in Turkey • Negligence and Cost-Cutting at the Heart of Fatal Poisoning in Istanbul Hotel • The Middle East Is Being Rewritten, But the Kurds Must Not Be Left Out • Building a New Syria: Inside the Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria • Palestinian Women's Resistance and Visions for Liberation with Yara Hawari • How Latin American Literature Helped Zohran Mamdani Win New York • Syria: Questions Raised as the Trial for the Alawite Coast Massacres Begins • State Violence on the Map- How Urban Geography Is Weaponized in Kurdistan • Famous Iraqi Singer Abducted and Forced to Fight for the Russian Army • Latest Name on Turkey’s Growing List of “Suspicious Female Deaths”: Rojin Kabaiş • Between Poetry and Genocide Research: Choman Hardi on Feminism in Kurdistan - YouTube • The Peace Process for the People of Amed: Belief is Limited, Expectations are Concrete • Iraq’s Quota System Silences Minorities • Breaking: Turkish Parliament’s Peace Commission Approves Imrali Visit • Iran’s Water Crisis Could Turn Tehran into a Ghost City • Al-Sharaa and the Dilemma of Combating Terrorism • In Baghdad, the Tigris is Trapped by Turkish Dams • From Revolution to Catastrophe: The Hidden Forces Behind Sudan's Humanitarian Crisis • Turkish Nationalist Leader Bahçeli: I am Ready to Sit Down With Öcalan • Ararat: A Kurdish and Roman Story at the International Architecture Exhibition • China’s Soft Game on the Kurds: Between Pragmatism and Power Politics • Justice Deferred: The Legal Battle Against IS That Never Came • The Vanishing Christians of Mosul • In Syria’s Olive Heartland, Farmers Fear the Harvest • Breaking the silencing: Fighting Gender-Based Violences in Northeast Syria • ‘The Process’ and Rojava • Iraq-Turkey Water Deal: Water as a Regional Power Tool • Gold and Guns Fuel War in Sudan • The Amargi Exclusive: Syrian-Kurdish Leader to Damascus and Washington,“Integration, Not Assimilation” • The Hijab: Iran’s Struggle for Control and Compliance • From Sand to Stadium: How Kobani’s Youth Found a Place to Play • Syria After Assad: Salih Muslim on Al-Sharaa, the Kurds, and America’s New Gamble • French Foreign Jihadi Fighters in Syria Battle New Government Forces Over Custody Case • If peace talks fail in Turkey, racism will erupt • Syria: Which Flag Flies in the Heart of Suwayda’s People? • Eco-farming initiatives thriving in Syria: “Seeds of Reunion” • Russia and Iran under the Return of Sanctions: Tactical Partnership or Strategic Alliance? • "Cyprus Is Not Divided, It's Occupied”: Turkish Cypriot Activist Speaks Out • As Iraq votes, Kurdish voters confront the same old political faces • Sanctions Were Meant to Weaken Iran’s Regime. 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