MESOP TODAY’S QUOTATION : PROFITEERS OF DISASTER / TONY BADRAN
Iranian maneuvering with the PUK is not the only domestic dynamic that Barzani must attend to in the post-ISIS assault environment in Iraqi Kurdistan. Another involves the Democratic Union Party (PYD), the Syrian branch of the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) and its military units, known as the People’s Protection Units (YPG). The YPG seized on the Peshmerga’s initial weak response to ISIS’s onslaught on the Sinjar region, near the Syrian border. Tony Badran https://now.mmedia.me/lb/en/commentaryanalysis/563499-a-chronically-fractured-kurdistan