Wladimir van Wilgenburg

Wladimir van Wilgenburg is a freelance reporter based in Erbil, Iraqi Kurdistan, and an analyst of Kurdish politics for the Jamestown Foundation. Follow on Twitter @vvanwilgenburg.

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BETRAYAL?

Are Turkey and the U.S. Headed for a Huge Showdown in Syria?

As Turkish tanks roll in, the Trump administration’s not-so-well-laid plans to keep U.S. troops in Syria to build a Kurdish border force have gone wildly awry.

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U.S. President Donald Trump (L) welcomes President Recep Tayyip Erdogan (R) of Turkey outside the West Wing of the White House May 16, 2017 in Washington, DC.

BETRAYAL

Has Trump Ditched the Kurdish Fighters Who Defeated ISIS?

Ankara says Trump promised to cut off arms to the Kurds in Syria. But the Kurds and the Americans says that’s an “adjustment”—and support, and the fight against ISIS, goes on.

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IRAN AMOK

As Trump Talks, Iran Advances Throughout Middle East

Now that the so-called Islamic State has lost virtually all the territory it once occupied in Syria and Iraq, it's Iran's proxies, not America's, that are moving in.

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