Kurdish Military History
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- Assyrian Campaigns in Zamua: The Babite Defence and Provincial Rule
- Early Kurdish Rule in the Zagros: Aishani, Hasanwayhid and Annazid Houses
- Gordyene (Corduene): Towns, Kings and the Upper Tigris Frontier
- Iraqi Kurdistan: From the 1991 Uprising to the Independence Referendum (1991–2017)
- Kurdish Dynasties at War: Campaigns, Alliances and Seljuk Expansion
- Kurdistan Between Empires: The Ottoman-Safavid Frontier Wars (1514–1780s)
- Kurds in Iran: Parties, Repression and Cross-Border Conflict
- Kurds in the Early Islamic Centuries: Conquest, Conversion and Local Power
- Rojava and the Wars of Syrian Kurdistan: Revolution, ISIS, and the Fight for Survival (2004–2026)
- The Anfal Genocide: Campaigns, Survivor Evidence and Accountability
- The Barzani Revolts, 1931–1975: War, Autonomy and Foreign Support
- The Cyrtians: Elite Mountain Troops of the Ancient Zagros
- The Fall of the Kurdish Emirates: Ottoman Centralisation in the Nineteenth Century
- The Gutians and the End of Akkadian Rule: Evidence and Later Stories
- The Karduchoi and Xenophon: Mountain Warfare, Villagers and the Retreat of 401 BCE
- The Later Ayyubid Wars: Damietta, Mansurah and the Crises of 1250–1260
- The Lullubi: Mountain Warriors of the Zagros Who Defied the Akkadian Empire
- The Marwanids of Diyar Bakr: Kurdistan's Greatest Medieval Dynasty (983–1085 CE)
- The Medes and the Fall of Assyria: How Highland Warriors Destroyed the World's Greatest Empire
- The Roman-Sasanian Wars in the Kurdish Highlands: Five Centuries of Empires at War
- The Shaddadids and Rawadids: Kurdish Warriors of the Caucasus and Azerbaijan (951–1199 CE)
- The Sheikh Said, Ararat, and Dersim Rebellions: Interwar Kurdish Revolts in Turkey
- Turkey–PKK Conflict: A Sourced Timeline and the 2025–26 Peace Process
- World War I and the Interwar Kurdish Revolts: From the Ottoman Collapse to the Republic of Mahabad (1914–1947)