This is an interview with Samantha Teal, a researcher at the Rojava Information Center, about Turkey’s ongoing attacks on the Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria. The future ...
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 ...
There is a real sense of a people responding to the facts on the ground with the few resources they have to hand. Rojava’s frontline of the war against ISIS is constantly shifting – at the moment in a ...
In 2012 the PYD, a Kurdish political party connected to the Kurdistan Worker’s Party (PKK) based in Turkey, took advantage of the spiralling chaos of the Syrian civil war to eject regime forces from ...
In one of its final moves in office, the Biden administration is trying to secure U.S. influence over Rojava, the Kurdish-led region of northeastern Syria. “We need to stand with the Kurds, and ...
A further contribution to the "No war but class war" debate, criticising the "A response..." article and comparing the situation in Ukraine with that of Rojava. This article was originally published ...
At a time when we are trying to heal the deep wounds and bleeding relationship between Turks and Kurds left from the 20th century, stop reopening those wounds and deepening the pain. There was a ...
A coalition of women’s organisations in North and East Syria (Rojava) launched a mass campaign named “We are all YPJ — ...