![Al-Bab Liberation Ruins Kurdish Dream of Federal State](https://eng-archive.aawsat.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/000_M06I5.jpg)
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Syrian rebels walk in the northwestern border town of al-Bab on February 24, 2017. Nazeer al-Khatib / AFP
![Al-Bab Liberation Ruins Kurdish Dream of Federal State](https://eng-archive.aawsat.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/000_M06I5.jpg)
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Turkish army tanks make their way towards the Syrian border town of Jarablus, Syria August 24, 2016 Reuters
![Syria’s Federalism: Dilemma of Solutions](https://eng-archive.aawsat.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/turkey-2.jpg)
Syria’s Federalism: Dilemma of Solutions
Beirut-Turkey’s cross-border operation in Syria and the forced move of the Kurdish militias from the Euphrates River’s west to its east have dealt a severe blow to Kurdish separatists who were planning on establishing their autonomous political federation in northern...Caption:
Somalia lawmakers raise their hands during a confidence vote on Prime Minister Abdiweli Sheikh Ahmed, at the Parliament Building in Mogadishu, Somalia, Dec. 6, 2014, A.P
![Somalia: The First Two-House Parliament, Six-State Federalism](https://eng-archive.aawsat.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/Somalia-lawmakers-raise-their-hands-during-a-confidence-vote-on-Prime-Minister-Abdiweli-Sheikh-Ahmed-at-the-Parliament-Building-in-Mogadishu-Somalia-Dec.-6-2014-A.P.jpg)
Somalia: The First Two-House Parliament, Six-State Federalism
Mogadishu- A new parliament will be announced next month in Somalia consisting of an Upper House and a Lower House (House of the People). Somalia has not had a popularly-elected government since 1969. The new Federal Parliament of Somalia, encompassing six states, is...Caption:
Bureau members of a preparatory conference to announce a federal system discuss a “Democratic Federal System for Rojava – Northern Syria” in the Kurdish-controlled town of Rmeilan, Hasaka province, Syria March 16, 2016. REUTERS/Rodi Said
![Syria’s Kurdish-Controlled Regions Approve Federal System](https://eng-archive.aawsat.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/Kurdish.jpg)
Syria’s Kurdish-Controlled Regions Approve Federal System
Syria’s three Kurdish-controlled autonomousnorthern regions voted to approve the establishment of an autonomous federal system on Thursday, enraging both the Damascus government and neighboring power Turkey with a move that could thwart the new U.N.-backed peace...Caption:
Kurds in Moscow looking at a map that shows the borders of greater Kurdistan at the opening of the (Kurdish) Democratic Union Party’s representative office in Moscow in February (EPA)
![Assad’s Desperate Speech and Russian, American and Kurdish Concord on Federalism](https://eng-archive.aawsat.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/map.jpg)