If, as expected, the Kurdistan Democratic Party triumphs, the win will cement the regional government’s autonomy.
Iraqi Kurd vote could cement autonomy, inspire diaspora
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Erdogan against the ropes with stalled Kurdish peace
The prime minister’s hope for an expansion of presidential powers relies on support from Kurdish legislators – an unlikely prospect if Ankara doesn’t bend.
Can Obama get liberals to go to war?
In a turnaround that has been painful for some of his most fervent supporters, the politician whose claim to fame was early opposition to the Iraq War must sell the left on Syrian intervention.
Kerry makes a war speech in absence of a doctrine
The strongest signal yet that the U.S. will intervene militarily in the brutal Syrian Civil War invites comparison to Colin Powell’s 2003 Iraq War speech, with a key difference.
A doomed U.N. mission meets Lebanese spillover for Syria
Chemical weapons use failed to trigger intervention by the West, simply encouraging more robust involvement by Hezbollah as Syrian terrorism creeps across its border.
Manning verdict doesn’t fix Obama’s leak problem
U.S. president is losing a domestic debate about surveillance and the national security state, a legal victory against the first Wikileaker notwithstanding.
Abu Ghraib jailbreak the beginning of the end for Maliki?
The terrifying attack comes in the context of general trend-lines that have brought a sharp downturn in quality of life in the country.
Manning ruling could have chilling effect of its own
The years-old case of the soldier who helped get Wikileaks off the ground is coinciding with the Snowden saga so as to put President Obama’s civil liberties record back in the spotlight.
Arming Syria’s rebels already looks like a nightmare
Even before the recent shift in policy from the White House, which has yet to bring any weapons to Syria, American arms have been flowing to all sorts of questionable actors on the ground.
What next for challengers of the Iranian clerics?
The two most prominent reformist candidates were barred from the June presidential election as the government appears intent on avoiding a repeat of 2009 protests.
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