By SETH J. FRANTZMAN It is always interesting to see the reaction of people, especially from the West, to those traveling to Iraq, whether to the Kurdish part or the […]
By SETH J. FRANTZMAN On Thursday the UN Security Council voted unanimously to express concern about the Kurdish referendum scheduled for September 25. The UNSC “expressed concern over the potentially […]
By SETH J. FRANTZMAN Hawija, a town near Kirkuk in northern Iraq, was conquered by ISIS in June 2014. It was home to around 150,000 people. It was a mostly […]
By SETH J. FRANTZMAN On September 18th, seven US Senators sent a letter to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. This comes amidst a dispute over whether there should be an […]
By SETH J. FRANTZMAN According to a new article in the New York Times, Italian rural villages are in danger due to mass migration to urban centers over the last century. […]
By SETH J. FRANTZMAN Before midnight on September 15th a Russian airstrike hit near where US-coalition supported Syrian Democratic Forces were operating east of the Euphrates river. According to a […]
By SETH J. FRANTZMAN With the Kurdistan referendum in the Kurdish region of Iraq quickly approaching, many of the processes set in motion years ago, even decades or 100 years […]
By SETH J. FRANTZMAN Time and again we hear the refrain: We shouldn’t do policy X because it might force country Z into the “other” camp. A recent article says […]
By SETH J. FRANTZMAN In early August I went to Ukraine to cover the Donbas conflict, which is stretching towards its fourth year. Ukraine is in some ways at the […]
By Seth J. Frantzman At 2:30 am on September 7th a Syrian government compound nestled near a hillside near Masyaf blew up. “It is no ordinary base,” writes Jack Moore […]
Seth J. Frantzman - author - analyst 