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KURDISTAN National Assembly Party leader Muhammad Abbas joined the growing calls for peace in the region today as he urged the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) to pull back from the brink of war, writes Steve Sweeney in Slemani, Iraqi Kurdistan.
The veteran politician accused KDP leader Masoud Barzani of colluding with Turkey, saying that he should “support Kurds and not their enemy.”
Earlier this month Mr Barzani, the former president of the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG), inflamed tensions by branding the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) an invading force, demanding that its fighters leave their bases in the Qandil mountains region.
CLAUDIA WEBBE looks at how Britain’s Nato ally has upped the stakes in its effort to silence domestic dissenting voices
History shows from Iraq to Libya, and now Iran, that regime-change fantasies rarely deliver stability — but they always deliver human and economic cost, says MARYAM ESLAMDOUST
VIJAY PRASHAD details how US support for Syrian President Ahmad al-Sharaa allowed him to break the resistance of the autonomous Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF)
