Around seven ethnic Armenian fighters from the YPJ (Women’s Defense Unit) sit quietly on sofas around me, smiling gently when ...

ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - A senior official from northeast Syria’s (Rojava) Kurdish-led administration warned on Thursday ...

The Rojava courts have already tried and sentenced 7,000 ISIS suspects — most of them Syrian, and some Iraqi. Six thousand more are awaiting trial. Earlier this month, ...

Text “In Rojava: People’s War is not Class War”, which you can read below, represents a contribution of “Internationalist Communist Tendency” (ICT) to a debate that has been taking place in certain ...

ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - Kurdish authorities in northeast Syria (Rojava) have not discussed handing over control of camps ...

Rojava—which means “west” in Kurdish, as in the western portion of an aspirational Greater Kurdistan that includes parts of Turkey, Iraq, and Iran—was formed in 2014 when the government ...

Though only just beginning, this economic model has, with great determination and in spite of the war, been realised in praxis by many in Rojava. Michael Knapp [10] Another main characteristic of the ...

Residents take part in a commune meeting in Rojava, Syria, November 13, 2015. A women's movement known as the Rojava Revolution was founded under the name Yekîtiya Star in 2005. Residents take ...

Rojava: A libertarian myth under scrutiny. The PKK claims to have shifted towards anarchism, but traces of authoritarianism are still visible in its “Syrian lab”.

Rojava deserves US support, Kurdish officials say, not just because of the sacrifice of the 13,000 women and men who gave their lives to defeat ISIS, but because as a democratic, ...

Rojava gives women hope and opportunity, and puts them on an equal footing with men, in the military, politics, and at the head of organisations. Society is being changed, ...

Rojava stretches along the Syrian-Turkish border for 400km or so, and is bounded to the south and west by the Euphrates River and to the east by Iraq.