Middle East

Members of the Druze minority wave the Druze flag.

Kurdish fighters in Rojava.

By Tony Iltis

May 9, 2015 -- Green Left Weekly, posted at Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal -- War planes from the US and its allies bombed the village of Birmehli in northern Syria on the night of April‭ ‬30.‭ ‬US Central Command spokesperson Major Curtis Kellogg claimed that at least‭ ‬50‭ ‬fighters from the self-styled Islamic State‭ (‬IS‭) ‬group were killed and there was‭ “‬no indication that any civilians were killed‭”‬.

Historian Doug Enaa Greene's lecture on the Iranian Marxist theorist Bizhan Jazani,

US President Barack Obama fetes the late King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia.

By Rupen Savoulian

"We can say that Kurdish women led the Rojava revolution.