A damaged home in the Sheikh Maqsoud neighborhood of Aleppo. (Mauricio Centurion) By signing up, you confirm that you are over the age of 16 and agree to receive occasional promotional offers for ...

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 have ...

Northeast Syria, known as “Rojava", is populated by Kurds and other ethnic and religious minorities including Chaldean ...

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 ...

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 ...

The ‘Rojava Revolution’ and the Kurds in North Syria Amid the civil war in Syria and the withdrawal of the Syrian Army in the north of Syria in 2012, the population of Rojava took control of their ...

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 ...

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 ...

Among supporters of the Syrian opposition, there is increasing cynicism (if not occasional disdain) toward the People’s Protection Units, better known by their Kurdish acronym the YPG. Across the ...

An international statement signed by Bandilang Itim. We will defend the social revolution in Rojava with all our power. The bloodthirsty imperialist interventions can be suspended only by the ...