French Foreign Minister Jean-Noel Barrot had a “very frank and productive” meeting with US Special Envoy for Syria Thomas ...

A senior official in northeast Syria’s (Rojava) administration on Friday warned that recent violence in Suwayda has exposed ...

Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) under its leader Abdullah Ocalan had been operating in Turkey with a separatist Kurdish state, ...

The Palace regime, which has embraced sectarian policies, is not getting its way. Israel, which has become involved in the ...

In the 1990s when the Turkish government fought a pitiless war against the PKK, banned Kurdish language, criminalized ...

Syria Syria's Rojava Revolution Is in Grave Danger Turkey is taking advantage of the power vacuum in Syria to crush the Kurdish-led anti-authoritarian uprising. And it's not clear what the U.S. wants.

Known as the Rojava Revolution (Rojava meaning “Western Kurdistan” in Kurmanji), the uprising can trace its ideological origins to the writings of Abdullah Ocalan, compared by many to Nelson Mandela.

However, history suggests this faith may ultimately prove misplaced, and Rojava could face a slow death by a thousand cuts.

In Kurdish Rojava, 'politics is being reappropriated from below' Philosopher Edouard Jourdain explains how the Kurdish territory in Syria is the site of fascinating institutional experiments after ...

Incredibly, the Rojava Kurds have implemented a program of democratic confederalism — grassroots democracy, gender inclusivity, economic cooperation and ethnic and religious pluralism that is the ...

Turkey Syria Turkey Helps ISIS Attack Rojava 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 ...

I first noticed Rojava (northeast Syria) a decade ago - while running my millisphere model through a philosophy of the science of geography paper.