KRG, PKK make unlikely allies as they battle IS together - Al-Monitor: The Middle Eastʼs leading independent news source since 2012

Kamal Chomani

Kamal Chomani

Aug 22, 2014

PKK soldiers stand at attention at the funeral of Deniz Firat, a PKK journalist who was killed by IS in Makhmur, south of Erbil, while filming PKK guerrillas fighting IS, Aug. 9, 2014. — Kamal Chomani

Iraqi Kurdish supporters of the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) hold flags bearing portraits of jailed PKK leader Abdullah Ocalan during a demonstration in Arbil on April 12, 2014 against the decision by Kurdish authorities to dig a trench along the border with neighboring Syria. The Kurdish autonomous region has backed Kurds in Syria against the extremists and has taken in some 200,000 refugees from the bloody conflict. AFP PHOTO / SAFIN HAMED (Photo credit should read SAFIN HAMED/AFP/Getty Images)

Rival Kurdish parties battle for power in Syria

Wladimir van Wilgenburg (Syria Pulse)

Wladimir van Wilgenburg (Syria Pulse)

Iraqi riot police protect the Turkish embassy in Baghdad on Feb. 18, 2021 after calls on social media to gather outside the Turkish embassy to protest Turkey's vows to invade the northwestern enclave of Sinjar.

Turkey’s anti-PKK assault leaves Kurds more divided

Amberin Zaman

In London, reporting on geopolitics, minorities, human rights, culture

Kurdish infighting complicates Sinjar offensive

Mahmut Bozarslan

Mahmut Bozarslan

SINJAR, IRAQ - NOVEMBER 16: A Peshmerga soldier walk to place a Kurdish flag near the frontline with ISIL on November 16, 2015 in Sinjar, Iraq. Kurdish forces, with the aid of massive U.S.-led coalition airstrikes, liberated the town from ISIL extremists, known in Arabic as Daesh, in recent days. Although many minority Yazidis celebrated the victory, their home city of Sinjar lay in almost complete ruins. (Photo by John Moore/Getty Images)

How deep is Turkey's Sinjar entanglement?

Fehim Tastekin

In Paris, reporting on Turkish politics