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 ...

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, ...

Power vacuum left by the war has allowed Kurds to create a secular, multicultural community As world leaders grapple with how to end the Syrian war, most people in the west are struggling to look ...

Rahila Gupta on why Turkey is encroaching on Rojava, an autonomous democratic commune fighting on the frontlines against ISIS. Kurdish YPJ fighters embrace in Afrin, a city now occupied by Turkey ...

The resilience of the Kurdish people who fight for their survival and autonomy serves as a testament to the enduring battle against colonialism, fundamentalism, and authoritarianism in this region and ...

Turkish forces have invaded Rojava — the Kurdish-majority multi-ethnic territory of the Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria (AA). In a telephone call to Turkey’s authoritarian President ...

The Turkish Armed Forces (TSK) continues drone strikes on regions under the control of the Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, commonly known as Rojava. Hawar News Agency reported that ...

After meetings with the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), the United States, Russia and Iran, the Recep Tayyip Erdoğan dictatorship in Turkey failed to get international support for its ...

Ever since it first emerged on the political scene in the early days of the Syrian civil war, the Democratic Union Party (PYD) and its armed wings - the People's Protection Units (YPG) and Women's ...

KOBANE, Syria — Just over a year ago, Dalal Nasan noticed a new stream flowing through the field behind her house in the village of Karamokh, a few kilometres east of Kobane. The fast-flowing current ...