Kurdistan
Key Connections
- Turkey — PKK containment; primary state adversary
- Syria — SDF-held northeast; Assad-successor negotiations
- Iran — fourth state in the Kurdish partition
- Islamic State — primary ground force in anti-ISIS campaign (2014–2019)
- Syria Post-Assad Trajectory — active investigation with dedicated Kurdish section
- Proxy Warfare — US-SDF, Iran-KDP, Turkey-SNA triangulation
- Insurgency — PKK as canonical long-cycle insurgency
- Recep Tayyip Erdoğan — personalist driver of Turkish containment
- Middle East — regional container
- Post-Iranian Regional Order (2026) — SDF fate as post-Iranian order variable