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آمبرین زمان

Reporting on geopolitics, minorities, human rights, culture

Bibi Heybat mosque is seen in front of Bibi Heybat Oil Field, situated at the coast of the Caspian Sea outside Baku on March 19, 2019.

Analysis

كيف تستفيد أذربيجان - وتواجه خطر الخسارة - من الحرب مع إيران

Amberin Zaman

Reporting on geopolitics, minorities, human rights, culture

An Iranian Kurdish peshmerga member of the Kurdistan Democratic Party of Iran inspects the damage sustained at the Azadi Camp following an Iranian cross-border attack in the town of Koye, east of Erbil district, on March 3, 2026.

Analysis

أول ضربة إيرانية على القوات الكردية العراقية منذ بدء الحرب بمثابة تحذير لحلفاء الولايات المتحدة

Amberin Zaman

Reporting on geopolitics, minorities, human rights, culture

Journalists gather outside the Ankara courthouse on March 10, 2020 behind a banner reading in Turkish "journalism is not crime," to protest over jailing of journalists, sparked by the recent arrest of OdaTV's news director and a journalist's report on the funeral of a Turkish intelligence officer apparently killed in Libya.

سُجن صحفي قام بالتحقيق في قضية نجل أردوغان بتهمة "التضليل" في تركيا

Amberin Zaman

Reporting on geopolitics, minorities, human rights, culture

An Iraqi oil tanker waits at the Khawr Abd Allah canal leading up to Al-Faw port in southern Iraq, on June 6, 2024.

في محاولة يائسة لبيع نفطها، يلجأ العراق إلى تركيا وسط المواجهة مع الأكراد

Amberin Zaman

Reporting on geopolitics, minorities, human rights, culture

Sipan Hemo

أبرز منتقدي دمشق من الأكراد يعيّنون نائباً لوزير الدفاع السوري

Amberin Zaman

Reporting on geopolitics, minorities, human rights, culture

The sun sets behind burning gas flares at the Dora Oil Refinery Complex in Baghdad on Nov. 24, 2025.

Exclusive

بغداد والولايات المتحدة تتجهان إلى الأكراد العراقيين لتصدير النفط مع تراجع الإمدادات جراء الحرب الإيرانية

Amberin Zaman

Reporting on geopolitics, minorities, human rights, culture

An Iranian Kurdish Peshmerga member of the Kurdistan Democratic Party of Iran (KDPI) inspects damage sustained at the Azadi Camp of the Kurdistan Democratic Party of Iran (KDPI) following an Iranian cross-border attack in the town of Koye (Koysinjaq), in the east of Erbil district in the autonomous Kurdish region of northern Iraq on March 3, 2026. The United States and Israel launched strikes against Iran on February 28, with the killing of Iran's supreme leader and the Islamic republic retaliated with barr

Analysis

يرى الأكراد فرصة سانحة لكنهم يظلون حذرين في الوقت الذي يسعى فيه ترامب للحصول على مساعدة لإسقاط النظام الإيراني

Amberin Zaman

Reporting on geopolitics, minorities, human rights, culture

Women and children seen inside al-Hol camp, amongst them some 6,200 women and children from around 40 nationalities, and including relatives of suspected Islamic State jihadists in the desert region of Hasakah province on Jan. 25, 2026 in Al Hasakah, Syria.

تركيا تعيد مقاتلي تنظيم داعش من العراق مع تصعيد الجهاديين لهجماتهم في سوريا

Amberin Zaman

Reporting on geopolitics, minorities, human rights, culture

A displaced Sudanese woman who left El-Fasher after its fall with others, walks amid the remains of a fire that broke out at a camp in Tawila on Feb. 11, 2026.

الأمم المتحدة تشير إلى "مسار إبادة جماعية" في هجوم قوات الدعم السريع على الرئيس السوداني الفاشر

Amberin Zaman

Reporting on geopolitics, minorities, human rights, culture

A campfire burns inside al-Hol camp on Jan. 26, 2026 in Al Hasakah, Syria.

Exclusive

أفاد مسؤولون أكراد سوريون بنقل 66 مقاتلاً تركياً من تنظيم داعش إلى العراق تمهيداً لإعادة توطينهم.

Amberin Zaman

Reporting on geopolitics, minorities, human rights, culture

Kurdish security forces patrol the street on Jan. 23, 2026 in Qamishli, Syria.

Analysis

يتراجع الأكراد ودمشق عن حافة الهاوية بعد توقيع قوات سوريا الديمقراطية اتفاقاً جديداً مع الحكومة السورية

Amberin Zaman

Reporting on geopolitics, minorities, human rights, culture

Siyamend Ali

Interview

المتحدث باسم وحدات حماية الشعب الكردية: استراتيجية القوات السورية هي عزل المدن والبلدات الكردية