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Latest deadly skirmish highlights the deteriorating security situation in the Kurdish region where Peshmerga forces set up new bases to keep the PKK at bay.
Sidekan, Kurdish Region, Iraq – Mounting tensions between rival Kurdish groups boiled over when clashes broke out between the Kurdistan (…)
As I write, the revolution in Rojava is under existential threat. This threat was aggravated by a controversial roller coaster of recent events. After a late Sunday night phone conversation between US President Donald Trump and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, the White House released a (…)
The full consequences of President Trump’s decision on October 6 to withdraw American troops and give Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdoğan a green light to invade northeast Syria are not yet clear. Erdoğan claimed that he wanted to create a twenty-mile buffer zone in which perhaps one million (…)
As soon as President Donald Trump ordered the withdrawal of US troops operating in northern Syria, Turkey launched an offensive against a region dominated by Arab-Kurdish militias. In order to shed light on the geopolitical aspects of this invasion, Chris Den Hond of Orient XXI met Salih Muslim, spokesman of the Democratic Union Party, Fehim Taştekin, analyst and journalist, Agit Polat, spokesman of the Kurdish Democratic Council in France and Raphaël Lebrujah who is under bombing in Qamishlo.
THE U.S. (...)
We the undersigned progressive parties in the Asia-Pacific region join other voices around the world demanding that Turkey stop its invasion of Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, popularly known as “Rojava”.
This invasion threatens a new genocide against the Kurds, Yezidi and (…)
The recent Turkish offensive on north-eastern Syria and US withdrawal of troops from the region is unleashing yet another humanitarian catastrophe of epic proportions.
In the past few days over 130,000 Syrians have fled for their lives, in desperate search of safety. Dozens of civilians have (…)
The Alliance of Middle Eastern and North African Socialists condemn Turkeys invasion of Northeastern Syria and its deadly assault on the Kurds. Last week, after U.S. president Trump announced the withdrawal of US troops from Northeastern Syria on October 9th, Turkey began the bombing of its (…)
Donald Trump’s treacherous sellout of the Syrian Kurds puts a new spin on the old saying that imperialism “has no permanent friends, only permanent interests.” It’s true that the ultimate betrayal of the Kurds was almost inevitable — as has happened so many times before. But the particular way (…)
In one more blatant display of his erratic character, political irresponsibility and human carelessness, US President Donald J. Trump abruptly announced on the night of Sunday 6 October, following a phone call with Turkish President Recep T. Erdogan, that he had ordered the withdrawal of US (…)
We, the Alliance of Middle Eastern and North African Socialists oppose the military attacks on the Idlib region and northern Hama and threats and assaults against the northeastern regions of Syria. We support all the innocent civilians in Syria.
Solidarity with Idlib against the attacks by (…)
Donald Trump’s sudden decision to withdraw 2000 U.S. troops from Syria is a green light to Recep Tayyip Erdogan to decimate the Kurds in what remains of Rojava in northern Syria. Earlier this year, Turkey invaded the Afrin area with the assistance of Syrian reactionary armed opposition groups, (…)
From 1987 to 2000, Janet Biehl, together with her longtime companion Murray Bookchin, published and co-edited Left Green Perspectives. She compiled and edited the Murray Bookchin Reader (1997). After Bookchin’s death in 2006, she wrote his biography: Ecology or Catastrophe: The Life of Murray (…)
Turkey has toppled the Kurdish-held city of Afrîn. But Erdoğan’s drive to crush the Kurdish liberation movement could backfire.
On January 20, the Turkish military launched its invasion of the Syrian-Kurdish canton of Afrîn in northwest Syria. On March 18, after intense battle in which the (…)
A British woman volunteer for the Kurdish female YPJ battalion was killed in Syria in the battle against Turkey and Turkish backed FSA forces in Afrin. She died on the 15th of March, and has been described by her father Dirk Campbell as a woman who “would go to any lengths to create the world (…)
Turkey-backed FSA militia swept into Afrin town on Sunday, raising their and Turkish flags in the town centre and declaring full control after an eight-week campaign to drive out Kurdish YPG fighters. More than 200,000 people fled the town. YPG plans hit-and-run attacks on Turkish and Syrian (…)
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) in an appeal on Friday called on international organizations and the UN to open a humanitarian crossing for Afrin to Aleppo and to help the civilians in Afrin with direct aid amidst world inaction in Afrin.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (…)
Statement of Hediye Yusuf, Co-chair of the Council of the Federation of Northern Syria, given to InfoCenter Afrin Resistance.
“Untill now, the Syrian State keeps silent against the occupation of its territory. Before this current situation Turkey already occupied Syrian territory in (…)
YPG commander Manî Egîd believes that Afrin will become a second Vietnam for the Turkish state.
Within three hours, the Turkish state wanted to conquer Afrin with the help of recruited Islamists. Meanwhile, 23 days have passed and the second largest NATO army still hangs in the border area. (…)
A testimony from the author of "Serfkeftin: a narrative of the Rojava Revolution (forthcoming 2018)
The dark clouds of 21st-century fascism are once again hanging over the heads of the people of northern Syria. As if the inhabitants of the region often referred to as Rojava haven’t suffered (…)
Dundee, Jan 27.
On Saturday January 27th’s #DefendAfrin demonstration in London, Dan Carden MP read this statement from Jeremy Corbyn:
“I send my solidarity to the Kurdish people of Syria and all over the world. What is urgently needed is a ceasefire, de-escalation and a negotiated political (…)
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