The dissolution of the Syrian Democratic Forces in Syria is a chance to reflect on the significance of the multiethnic, democratic confederalist project in Rojava and the future of Kurdish rights in Syria, writes Sarah Glynn.
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A coalition of women’s organisations in North and East Syria (Rojava) have launched a mass campaign, “We are all YPJ — Self-defence is our natural right”, demanding that the Rojava revolution’s Women’s Protection Units be included in Syria’s integrated armed forces, reports Peter Boyle.
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Sarah Glynn writes that as activists across the world were arguing that another world was possible, far away, in the middle of a warzone, the people of Rojava were resisting Islamic State and building a different society that prioritised community over economic interests. That society is in mortal danger today.
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The Rojava Revolution, organised around the principles of pluralism and democracy, women’s liberation and ecology, is under existential threat, writes Elise Boyle Espinosa.
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Amira Mohammed, one of the commanders of the Women’s Protection Units in North East Syria (Rojava), spoke to Firat News Agency’s Cûdî Îbrahîm about the role of women in Syria and the protection of all women living in the country.
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A senior delegation from the Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria (AANES/Rojava) had its first official meeting with the central government of Syria, on June 1, reports Peter Boyle.
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Following the takeover of most of Aleppo by the Turkish-backed Islamist militia group Hayat Tahrir al-Sham and its allies, fighting between them, the Assad regime forces and Kurdish-led forces is escalating, reports Peter Boyle.
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Peter Boyle spoke to Ryan Capozzi from Solidarity Minded, a mutual aid group specialising in mental health that is planning to work with Yezidi survivors of the Daesh (Islamic State) massacre in Iraqi Kurdistan nine years ago.
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Sozdar Dêrik, commander of the Kurdish Women's Protection Units (YPJ) speaks to Cristina Mas, in Barcelona.
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The Yazidi Justice Committee released a damning report in July on the complicity of various governments in the Islamic State genocide against the Yezidi. Peter Boyle reports.
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Jiyan Tolhildan (Salwa Yusuf), a leader of the Syrian Defence Force (SDF) Counter Terrorism Units, and who led the fight against ISIS, was murdered by Turkey in a drone strike on July 22, reports Sarah Glynn.
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July 19 marked ten years of the Rojava Revolution in North and East Syria, reports Medya News.