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Donald Trump dealt a blow to a bipartisan border-security bill, newly unveiled by America’s Senate after months of wrangling. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. 

America’s national security advisor, Jake Sullivan, said its forces planned to carry out more strikes on Iran-linked targets in the Middle East, to send a “clear message” that it would respond to attacks on its forces. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. 

America and Britain launched strikes against 36 Houthi targets in Yemen. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. 

Today we speak to Kurdish researcher Dastan Jasim about the new front opened up in the Kurdish region of Iraq. The leading party of the Kurdistan region has teamed up with the Turkish military to drive out the Kurdish rebels of the PKK. In the process, many civilians are being ha ... Show More

<p>Today we speak to journalist Fréderike Geerdink about the current clashes taking place in southeast Turkey, where the Turkish government removed democratically elected Kurdish politicians. The clashes have gotten heavy and a new Kurdish militant group has emerged...</p> <p><st ... Show More

<p>On July 11, a group of PKK fighters burned their weapons in a ceremony marking the end of their forty-year-long armed campaign against the Kurdish state. Aliza Marcus, a leading expert on the militant group, says it is too early to determine whether the PKK will abandon armed ... Show More

This week on The New Arab Voice, we look at the recent ceasefire agreement between the PKK and the Turkish state. The Kurdistan’s Worker’s Party (PKK) and the Turkish state have been in a state of conflict since 1984. The conflict has killed over 35,000 people and achieved little ... Show More

<p>Ankara's&nbsp;latest&nbsp;effort to end a four decades long Kurdish insurgency is opaque and&nbsp;is&nbsp;full of risks and opportunities for Turkey and Syria's Kurds&nbsp;says&nbsp;lawmaker Cengiz Candar.</p><p>See Privacy Policy at <a href="https://art19.com/privacy" rel="no ... Show More

<p>Cengiz Candar is a lawmaker for the pro-Kurdish DEM party in Turkey who has spent long years in the Middle East. Candar outlines how Israel has hugely benefited from the fall of the Assad regime in Syria, while Turkey — another big winner — is seeking to thwart Kurdish aspirat ... Show More

Turkiye has launched strikes on Kurdish militants, blaming them for an attack that killed five people at a defense company in Ankara. Hezbollah has issued a statement mourning its top official Hashem Safieddine, who died in an Israeli strike. Chinese President Xi Jinping has made ... Show More

<p>Kurdish forces have a long history of siding with the United States. And the United States has a long history of eventually selling them out. </p> <p>The latest iteration of this dynamic unfolded when Donald Trump ordered a small US military contingent to withdraw from Kurdish ... Show More

<p>The arrest and jailing of Istanbul’s mayor, Ekrem Imamoglu, Turkey’s main political challenger to President Erdogan, has sent shockwaves across the country. Thousands of demonstrators took to the streets to protest his detention and express growing concerns over Turkey's shift ... Show More