Six years later sequel of "The Communes of Rojava" (2018), made in the face of some of the most dire attacks yet faced by the pluralist, women-led, radically democratic project in North and East Syria ...

Kobane, Syria, 7 February 2015. Picture by: Sebastian Backhaus/DPA/PA Images. All rights reserved. During the Syrian revolution in 2011, the PYD (Democratic Union ...

In Article 2 of its Social Contract, the Democratic Federation of Northern Syria declares that it is "based on a democratic and ecological system and on the freedom of women". In Article 57, democracy ...

The economy in Western Kurdistan (Rojava) has been exposed to plunder and exploitation on a large scale by the Syrian state, which controlled the country's entire resources, rendering the community ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. Details have emerged of how women in towns and villages across northern ...

In 2011, in the context of the Arab Spring, a civil war began in Syria, pitting various armed groups against President Bashar al-Assad’s regime. Rapidly, a Kurdish-majority coalition led by the ...

Many Kurdish people have had their connection to their land battered out of them. Now, they are taking it back. Matt Broomfield reports During Turkey’s illegitimate invasion and annexation of Afrin, ...

The flags of the Women’s Protection Units (YPJ) and Shengal Women's Units (YJS) were planted in the city centre of Raqqa, which had been the capital city of ISIS, on September 14. ISIS still controls ...

Since its establishment in late 2012, the de facto autonomous region of Rojava in northern Syria has attracted the attention of European leftists, mainly because of the influence of Murray Bookchin’s ...

Rojava is going through a very difficult time; its future is not clear at the moment. However what is clear is that there will either be genocide or compromise. What is currently going on in Rojava ...