With Syria’s Kurdish regions under siege from jihadi militias, more than 300 activists have mobilised a ‘People’s Caravan’ to Rojava in solidarity — and to denounce their abandonment by Western powers ...

Rojava did not fall due to a covert agreement among global powers, as claimed. Instead, its collapse was largely self-inflicted. Since the collapse of Rojava, which resulted in the loss of sovereignty ...

The Kurdish people have sacrificed 13,000 lives in the fight against ISIS. Progressives should support their effort to build a secure base for direct democracy, feminism, and pluralism. SDF soldiers ...

AMUDA, Syria—Amid the chaos of Syria’s war, the Kurds have carved out a semiautonomous region called Rojava that is home to about four million people, is as big as Belgium and stretches nearly the ...

In 2014, when David Graeber and others began claiming that a genuine anti-capitalist revolution was occurring in Syrian Kurdistan, the healthy reaction was scepticism. After all, the initiators of ...

Recent developments in northern Syria, in Rojava, are not merely part of a regional conflict: they are testing the very limits of security, identity, and international conscience in the Middle East.

A fighter holds her position inside a trench along the front line against the Nusra front in the Syrian town of Ras al-Ain, close to the Turkish border. Photographer Fabio Bucciarelli spent three ...

A coalition of women’s organisations in North and East Syria (Rojava) launched a mass campaign named “We are all YPJ — ...