A Marriage of Convenience: The Many Faces of Iraq’s Sunni Insurgency
The Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) may have stolen the limelight, but the current Sunni insurgency in Iraq is dominated by a number...
Bashdar Pusho Ismaeel
Bashdar Pusho Ismaeel is a writer and analyst whose primary focus and
expertise is on the Kurds, Iraq, Turkey and Middle Eastern current affairs.
His work has previously appeared in, among others, the BBC News Service,
Asharq al-Awsat, the Washington Examiner, the Asian Times, Rudaw, the
Kurdish Globe, the Epoch Times, al-Arabiya, and the Lebanese Daily Star. His
work has been republished extensively on the Internet. Bashdar
currently writes for Rudaw (a Kurdish newspaper based in Iraqi Kurdistan
that also publishes in English) and the Kurdish Globe (a weekly English
language newspaper printed in Iraqi Kurdistan) in addition to various
freelance assignments.
