A Syrian foreign ministry source on Friday said that “no tangible results” have been achieved toward integrating northeast ...

With images of chaos, conflict, and a seemingly endless parade of horrors dominating the mainstream media, the image of Syria that dominates the popular mind is a kind of hell on earth. But Syria ...

The integration talks with the Syrian transitional government are not merely theoretical, as practical steps have already ...

Forged during the Syrian war, Rojava’s experiment in radical self-government offers a lens for examining how the left sustains hope under siege. How should the progressive left respond to the ...

In 2014, when David Graeber and others began claiming that a genuine anti-capitalist revolution was occurring in Syrian Kurdistan, the healthy reaction was scepticism. After all, the initiators of ...

“Make Rojava Green Again” cover. All rights reserved. In Article 2 of its Social Contract, the Democratic Federation of Northern Syria declares that it is "based ...

Syrian Democratic Forces' key ally in Washington seems increasingly willing to sell it out piece by piece to Turkey, but an alternative deal with Assad is equally unpalatable A female member of the ...

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 ...

Rojava is going through a very difficult time; its future is not clear at the moment. However what is clear is that there will either be genocide or compromise. What is currently going on in Rojava ...

In 2011, in the context of the Arab Spring, a civil war began in Syria, pitting various armed groups against President Bashar al-Assad’s regime. Rapidly, a Kurdish-majority coalition led by the ...

Members of Kongra Star, the women’s umbrella organisation in Rojava, northern Syria. This is the obvious question to ask - but an extremely difficult one to answer, especially when the situation is as ...

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 ...