Author: Wladimir van Wilgenburg

Wladimir van Wilgenburg is an analyst of Kurdish politics for the Jamestown Foundation and a freelance journalist. He is currently reporting from Erbil, Iraqi Kurdistan and is currently co-writing a book on Syrian Kurds based on months of field research in northern Syria.

ERBIL The U.S. decision to directly arm the Syrian Kurds fighting the so-called Islamic State is not a complete shift in the White House administration’s policy with the Kurds or Turkey, but it is a necessary step in securing the defeat of militants on the ground, U.S.-backed fighters said. (More…)