Until recently, the Kurds seemed largely on the ascent. The Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) in Northern Iraq was thriving as a semi-autonomous, de facto state in a federal relationship with Iraq under ultimate US military protection. The Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) in Turkey maintained a long-time military structure and continued to wage war against the Turkish government in pursuit of constitutional Kurdish rights as...
Lebanese President Joseph Aoun’s visit to Paris for the September 17 preparatory meeting on support for the Lebanese Armed Forces and Internal Security Forces comes at a potentially transformative moment for Lebanon. The meeting, convened at the initiative of French President Emmanuel Macron, is formally concerned with financial assistance, military equipment, training, and institutional capacity. But its political significance goes considerably further.
At stake is...
