Anyone who witnessed events in Iraqi Kurdistan in the 1990s will feel déjà vu as events in Kurdish Syria unfold. After Saddam Hussein withdrew from northern Iraq in 1991, due …
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Past the sand berm marking the border between northern Iraq and northeastern Syria, a small military outpost sits amid the oil derricks that dot the parched landscape of this country …
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Things are changing in northeastern Syria’s Kurdish-majority Hassake province. Gradually, the swoops and curves of Arabic script on storefronts and street signs are being replaced with the Latin characters that …
