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Comment: A democratic revolution is taking place in "Rojava", the Kurdish regions of Syria. But the project needs international support to survive, says Diana Darke.
A car bomb has shattered the peace in Erbil. Many have blamed the Islamic State group and linked the bomb to the Peshmerga's military involvement in Kobane.
Commonly portrayed as an 'exotic' side to the fight against the Islamic State group, female Kurdish fighters .......
Comment: The impunity of those who murder press workers erodes claims that Kurdistan operates under the rule of law, writes Aras Ahmed.
Comment: An inconsistent British strategy in Iraq undermined any attempt at unification in Kurdistan, and their orientalist gaze saw the Kurds as ultimately incapable of claiming self-rule, writes Jean-Baptiste Begat
The different treatment of Kurdish and Palestinian women in Western media reveals imperial interests in deciding whose worth of solidarity, writes Sara Al Saeed
Iraq is experiencing its worst political crisis in years, as the power struggle between influential Shi'ite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr and Iran-backed Shi'ite factions have come to a head. Safaa Khalaf explains the developments which led to this point.
Female genital mutilation is an all too common practice across MENA, where a lack of legal protections and publicly available data means that survivors have no access to support or justice, writes Paleki Ayang.
Comment: The brutal crackdown on anti-government protests is a dangerous way to react to the desperation of young, jobless people who have lost all trust in politics, writes Judit Neurink.
The true villains behind the Calais crisis are not smugglers, rather they are the French and British decision-makers, with their hostile and restrictive policies against refugees and migrants, writes Sophia Akram.