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 ...

Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) commander Mazloum Abdi said on Saturday that they have reached an understanding with Damascus ...

Kurdish school systems in the Kurdistan Region and northeastern Syria (Rojava) agree on medieval Kurdish symbols but diverge ...

In northern Syria, the first elections since the fall of Assad were followed by renewed violence. Kurdish authorities say ...

Following the claim of responsibility by the PKK for the October 1 attack in Ankara, Turkish military airstrikes in regions controlled by the Autonomous Administration of Northern and Eastern Syria ...

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 ...

In this long read op-ed for JURIST by Shadi Sadr, a human rights lawyer and PhD candidate at Leiden University, Sadr discusses the Rojava Tribunal, a session of the Permanent People’s Tribunal, ...

Kobane, Syria, was home to one of the most famous military turning points in history. A small force of Kurdish guerrillas, pressed between the advancing Islamic State group and the Turkish border, was ...

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 ...

Note: This article is translated from the original article titled Doç. Dr. Arzu Yılmaz: Gazze planını onaylamış olabilir, ...

In late November, a coordinated offensive by two Syrian rebel factions — Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham, or HTS, and the Free Syrian Army, or FSA — resulted in the seizure of key areas in the Aleppo-Idlib ...

THE KURDS have their own name for northern Syria: Rojava, which means where the sun sets. For decades that seemed fitting. Arab nationalists pushed them off their land and suppressed their language.