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Dec 18, 2020

Iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kadhimi (left photo) met Dec. 17, 2020, with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan (right) in Ankara, Turkey. In the photos, Kadhimi is seen in Berlin on Oct. 20, 2020, while Erdogan is seen in Ankara on Dec. 14, 2020. — STEFANIE LOOS/POOL/AFP via Getty Images (L) / ADEM ALTAN/AFP via Getty Images (R)

Washington on the spot as its Syrian Kurd allies are drawn into PKK-KDP fight

Amberin Zaman

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

A Turkish soldier stands near his armoured vehicle on a highway near the northern Syrian town of Ain Issa in the countryside of the Raqqa region, on November 26, 2019, as Turkey-backed forces deploy reinforcements around the key town. - Ankara and its Syrian proxies launched on October 9 a cross-border attack against Kurdish fighters in northern Syria, which allowed Turkey, along with a subsequent Russian-Turkish accord, to control a strip of land on the Syrian side of the border. Ain Issa lies on the south

Syrian Kurds squeezed between Turkish threat, Russian pressure in Ain Issa

Fehim Tastekin

In Paris, reporting on Turkish politics

A member of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) carries an automatic rifle on a road in the Qandil Mountains, the PKK headquarters in northern Iraq, on June 22, 2018. - Hundreds of Iraqi Kurds marched Friday to protest Turkish strikes against the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) after Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Ankara would press an operation against its bases. (Photo by SAFIN HAMED / AFP) (Photo credit should read SAFIN HAMED/AFP via Getty Images)

Turkey turns up heat on PKK in Iraqi Kurdistan

Fehim Tastekin

In Paris, reporting on Turkish politics

PKK

Analysis

Sinjar becomes latest flashpoint for Iran-Turkey tensions in Iraq

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