Hello, Kurdistan

by Daniel Pipes The Washington Times September 10, 2014 Before welcoming the emerging state of Kurdistan in northern Iraq, I confess to having opposed its independence in the past. In 1991, after the Kuwait War had ended and as Saddam Hussein attacked Iraq’s six million Kurds, I made three arguments against American intervention on their […]

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Turkish and Syrian flags are seen on the Turkish-Syrian border

Syrian Kurds Clash with Islamists, Prepare for Autonomy

Syrian Kurdish militants clashed Tuesday with Al Qaeda-linked rebel terrorist fighters, killing at least four members of the Jabhat al-Nusra (Al Nusra Front) terrorist organization as the Kurds prepared to set the stage for an autonomous region, while Islamists group attempt to establish their own independent “emirates”, ruled by sharia (Islamic law). Gunfire also spilled over […]

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The 1915 Armenian and Assyrian Genocides: Inconvenient Precedents for the Arab Spring Revolutions

The 1915 Armenian and Assyrian Genocides: Inconvenient Precedents for the Arab Spring Revolutions   …by Ranbir Singh     It was in a speech of 22 August 1939 that Hitler urged his volk to slaughter without mercy men, women and children of the inferior Slavic race as he planned to invade Poland. He ended this […]

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