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President of the Iraqi Kurdistan region Masoud Barzani. (AFP)

Why a Referendum Won’t Solve Iraqi Kurdistan’s Problems

by Jackson Diehl | Aug 1, 2017 | Opinion

There’s a lingering impression in Washington that Iraqi Kurdistan is what it was five years ago, before the rise of ISIS: a peaceful, prospering, emerging pro-Western democracy whose aspirations for full independence from Iraq are increasingly hard to ignore....

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Members of the Syrian Civil Defence, also known as the White Helmets, remove a victim from the rubble of his house on April 8 in the southern Syrian city of Daraa. (Mohamad Abazeed/Agence France-Presse via Getty Images)

Almost a Month after Trump’s Airstrike, Syria Remains a Barbaric Battlefield

by Jackson Diehl | May 4, 2017 | Opinion

Nearly a month has passed since a sarin gas attack on the Syrian village of Khan Sheikhoun prompted President Trump to bombard a regime airbase with cruise missiles. The good news since then is that there have been no further attacks on civilians using sarin — though...