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It’s not just Americans who have flocked to aid the Rojava Revolution; hundreds of volunteers from around the world have joined the fight, too. I first went to Rojava in December 2014.
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 ...
DAMASCUS - US Special Envoy for Syria Tom Barrack on Thursday told Rudaw that the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) ...
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, ...
A new model of social organization is taking shape in the Kurdish areas of northern Syria. Rojava, as it is known, comprises three cantons in the western section of the historical homeland 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 ...
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 ...
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: A libertarian myth under scrutiny. The PKK claims to have shifted towards anarchism, but traces of authoritarianism are still visible in its “Syrian lab”.
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 ...
Supporting the existence of Rojava means supporting the longevity of a thriving progressive democracy in a region where authoritarianism and Islamic fundamentalism run rife.
Celebration of the International Women’s Day in Rojava in 2021. (Photo courtesy of the Rojava Information Center) By signing up, you confirm that you are over the age of 16 and agree to receive ...