It appears to be the final days of Rojava, as the unique Kurdish political experience in Northeastern Syria is known. Moving rapidly after President Donald Trump’s surprise announcement that U.S.
London, England, 24th January 2026: Trump betrays the Kurds for decades; the Kurds are helping and fighting along the US side against ISIS. The US strategy involves using puppet leader Ahmed al-Sharaa ...
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 ...
This article was emailed to me (boomerang) by the author, Hüseyin Civan, a member of the DAF (Devrimci Anarşist Faaliyet), an anarchist group in Turkey. He'd previously requested that I share it on ...
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 ...
The silhouette of a hand indicates a “Victory” sign behind a Kurdish flag in Kobane, Syria, in February 2015. (Photo by Antonio Pampliega / picture-alliance / dpa / AP Images) Turkish armed forces ...
While Washington initially expressed rhetorical support for the Kurdish opposition, it later issued more cautious messages discouraging active Kurdish involvement in the conflict.
Rojava’s model of empowering women is based upon the gender liberation perspective developed by the PKK and applied by the Kurdish movement and the pro-Kurdish Peace and Democracy Party (BDP) in ...
As Turkey launches an aerial and ground assault on northern Syria targeting Kurdish-controlled areas, we look at how the offensive threatens the Kurdish region of Rojava with Debbie Bookchin, ...
Judge Amina, fuchsia sunglasses perched atop her long, blonde hair, commands the ISIS prisoner to enter. Mahmoud Amir, a 22-year-old Syrian, walks in, wearing slippers, sweatpants and a black, ...