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More than 400 Kurdish and minority representatives met for a unity conference in Hasaka, northeast Syria (Rojava) on Friday ...
ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - A senior Damascus official on Friday said a unity conference, bringing together Syria’s minorities ...
After four decades of insurgency, Abdullah Öcalan’s call for democratic politics signals a transformative moment in the ...
Rojava—which means “west” in Kurdish, as in the western portion of an aspirational Greater Kurdistan that includes parts of Turkey, Iraq, and Iran—was formed in 2014 when the government ...
Text “In Rojava: People’s War is not Class War”, which you can read below, represents a contribution of “Internationalist Communist Tendency” (ICT) to a debate that has been taking place in certain ...
That too would face significant obstacles because of the Rojava administration's lack of legal status. Kurdish Syrian forces fought with the U.S. to defeat ISIS in Syria, with a loss of 11,000 ...
That the project of Rojava, for now, has been helped by the presence of U.S. troops is an unintentional byproduct of the unsuccessful U.S. effort to overthrow Bashar al-Assad.
The Rojava Kurds talk about democracy in freedom but, presenting themselves as Marxists, and have been taking land from the people who have long lived there and dividing it among the poor, themselves.
Within the short time since forming Rojava’s democratic experiment, child marriage, forced marriage, dowry and polygamy were banned; honour killings, violence and discrimination against women were ...
Rojava can be more than an example. It can be the common ground on which we come togheter to march as one against nation, state and oppression. And towards a new future. Salvador Zana is an ...
Residents take part in a commune meeting in Rojava, Syria, November 13, 2015. A women's movement known as the Rojava Revolution was founded under the name Yekîtiya Star in 2005. John Moore/Getty ...
Jerusalem Post Opinion In defense of Rojava By ANTHONY AVICE DU BUISSON JANUARY 5, 2019 22:11 A difference of opinion: US President Donald Trump and Secretary of Defense James Mattis, who resigned ...