Update December 4 – Northern Syria Offensive

Highlights - As displaced families continue to pour in to NES, the DAANES estimates that numbers of IDPs will soon reach 120,000. - Critical shortages of essential supplies, food, water, medicines and accommodation for IDPs. - SNA commits…

Squashed by Climate Change and Turkey’s Ecocidal Warfare, Northern Syria Fights the ‘Worst Drought in 70 years’

Original article published in Turningpoint magazine by Henri Sulku on 10 July 2024. As the spring turns towards summer, the Democratic Autonomous Administration of Northern and Eastern Syria (DAANES) faces the most precarious season…

Rojava’s Elections Defy Turkish Bombs and U.S. Indifference

Original article published on Truthdig by Matt Broomfield on 17 June 2024. After defeating ISIS and establishing a multiethnic democracy, the Kurdish-majority statelet goes to the polls. In this Thursday, Oct. 19, 2017 photo, fighters…

Worrying signs exist that IS growing stronger in Syria

Original article published on Voice of America by Jeff Seldin on April 05, 2024. FILE - IS militants are seen in Tel Abyad, Syria, May 4, 2015. There are concerns about an upswing in Islamic State attacks across Syria, though the United…

Turkey strikes infrastructure in Rojava following PKK attack

Original article published on bianet English on 26 December 2023. After 12 soldiers were killed in two separate PKK attacks targeting Turkish military outposts in Iraq’s Kurdistan region, Turkey carried out retaliatory strikes in both…

With All Eyes on Palestine, Don’t Forget Rojava

The Kurds have ‘no friends but the mountains’. Original article published on Novara Media by Dani Ellis  on 6 November 2023 Funeral for police cadets and trainers killed in a Turkish airstrike in Derik, north east…

The Full Costs of Turkey’s Bombing Campaign in Northeast Syria

Civilians Bearing the Brunt of Ongoing Attacks by Turkish Forces Original article published on Human Rights Watch by Myriam Whaibe on November 3, 2023. Smoke rises from Syria's Kurdish-controlled northeast city of Qamishli, Syria October…

Rojava’s Women-Led Restorative Justice System Centers Mediation, Not Retribution

Rojava’s restorative legal system offers a different model of community care, seeking to minimize police involvement. Original article published on Truthout by Ella Fassler on October 20, 2023 Kurdish women learn…

Türkei nimmt Bevölkerung ins Visier

Rojava, Westkurdistan Original article published on KONTEXT WOCHENZEITUNG  by Florian Kaufmann on 18.10.202 Während die internationale Gemeinschaft schweigt, startet die Türkei neue Angriffe auf die mehrheitlich kurdisch bewohnte…

Rojava’s Improvised Revolution

Original article published on Truthdig by Matt Broomfield on October 9, 2023. How the Middle East’s most progressive society survives in the face of catastrophe. The all-female HPC Jin, a community, women-led defense force, embodies the…

Vergeltung für Terroranschlag: Türkei greift kurdische Ziele in Syrien und im Irak an

Original article published on Frankfurter Rundschau by  Erkan Pehlivan on 05.10.2023 Bei Angriffen der Türkei auf Syrien sind acht Menschen getötet worden. Außenminister Hakan Fidan hatte zuvor Angriffe…