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 ...

When I sat down to write this, my last column of the semester, I struggled for the right words. I imagined all the really distressing things I could throw at you. The United States is privileged ...

KOBANI, SYRIA – One out of five Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) soldiers died in battles since the 2011 uprisings in Syria, with most of them dying while liberating the area from ISIS rule. That ...

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 ...

One of the most fascinating aspects of my recent trip to Rojava, the Kurdish region of Syria, was its leaders’ focus on empowering women. The failure of many Mideast nations to let women play a major ...

There’s an old adage: The Kurds have no friends but the mountains. The Chicago Committee for Solidarity with Kurdistan and Rojava and local anarchist group Black Rose Chicago came together Saturday in ...

Details have emerged of how women in towns and villages across northern Syria have defied the fierce oppression of President Bashar Al-Assad's Ba'ath regime to come together and create a women's ...

On October 12, Amnesty International released a report alleging “civilians living in areas of northern Syria under the de facto control of the Autonomous Administration led by the Partiya Yekîtiya ...

The autonomous region of Rojava, as it exists today, is one of few bright spots – albeit a very bright one – to emerge from the tragedy of the Syrian revolution. David Graeber[1] In the last decades ...

Funerals of 13 YPG/YPJ members were delivered to their families while 11 funerals are still being kept in Mürşitpınar border gate, near Syria. At 11 o’clock in the morning, autopsies were performed on ...

ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - The Kurdish-led administration in northeast Syria (Rojava) announced on Sunday that it handed over a Brazilian woman and a child - identified as family of Islamic State (ISIS ...