Nwenar Fatih

2 weeks ago | rudaw.net | Nwenar Fatih

ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - Kurds and Yazidis displaced from the Kurdish city of Afrin in northwest Syria are afraid to return as militia members accused of atrocities control the area, a prominent American religious freedom advocate told Rudaw. “There’s no way they [Kurds and Yazidis] could stay if they were under these Islamists. They had to flee from the Syrian National Army [SNA] when they invaded Afrin. So all those IDPs are looking and saying, ‘wait, we’ve done this before.

4 weeks ago | rudaw.net | Nwenar Fatih

ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - The head of the International Crisis Group said in an interview on Thursday that both Iran and the United States appear “serious and genuine” about resuming negotiations over Tehran’s nuclear program, amid signs of a shifting regional balance. US President Donald Trump “has made it very clear that he is not interested in war,” Comfort Ero, president of the International Crisis Group think tank, told Rudaw on the sidelines of the Sulaimani Forum.

4 weeks ago | rudaw.net | Nwenar Fatih

ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - Ukraine must be granted full territorial sovereignty, warned a prominent Slovak parliamentarian and former deputy prime minister, emphasizing that any peace agreement ceding land to Russia would not bring true stability.

4 weeks ago | rudaw.net | Nwenar Fatih

ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - While praising the religious diversity in the Kurdistan Region, a prominent German political activist stated that it is unlikely that much of the 1.5 million Christians and Yazidis who have left Iraq in the past two decades will return after having sought refuge abroad.

1 month ago | rudaw.net | Nwenar Fatih

ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - The continued presence of American troops in Syria is critical for ensuring the country’s stability and preventing the resurgence of the Islamic State (ISIS), a former United States diplomat and United Nations official told Rudaw.