ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - The Kurdish Women’s Protection Units (YPJ) said late Wednesday that 35 of its members remain in ...

Authorities in northeastern Syria (Rojava) say hundreds of detainees are set to be released soon as part of the ongoing ...

Rojava is the name given to the part of this fragmented geography that lies within Syria. In Kurdish, it means ‘west’. If our ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. GENERAL HUSSEIN Yazdanpanah of the Kurdistan Freedom Party (PAK) in front of PAK troops. (photo credit: Courtesy PAK) The Office ...

At a time when we are trying to heal the deep wounds and bleeding relationship between Turks and Kurds left from the 20th century, stop reopening those wounds and deepening the pain. There was a ...

Rojava, the Kurdish-majority liberated zone in northern Syria, is the location of a unique experiment in grassroots, participatory democracy. It is undergoing a profound social revolution that ...

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 ...

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 ...

Recent developments in northern Syria, in Rojava, are not merely part of a regional conflict: they are testing the very limits of security, identity, and international conscience in the Middle East.

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 ...

Out of repression has emerged one of the world’s most interesting experiments in democracy. And by democracy, what is meant is not the formal capitalist variety of elections every few years in which ...

SO HERE ARE SOME CRITICAL QUESTIONS FOR SUPPORTERS OF THE ROJAVA REVOLUTION: Women will be at the forefront of any genuine social revolution and women’s involvement in the Rojava revolution is ...