Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria

Tempest Kurd Syria

The Kurds and the Syrian revolutionary process: The new regime, Arab chauvinism and the struggle ahead

Joseph Daher writes about the evolution of Kurdish politics after the fall of the Assad regime in Syria.

(Video) Rojava’s future in Syria? AANES foreign relations co-chair Ilham Ahmed on decentralization, women’s rights & guarantees

Ilham Ahmed explains why constitutional safeguards, decentralization and women’s political participation are central to Syria’s long-term stability.

(Video) Syria’s new power map: Inside the SDF–Damascus deal (plus global intellectuals call to defend Rojava’s democratic experiment)

Mazloum Abdi discusses the international community’s stance toward Rojava, the January 29 agreement with Damascus, whether the US betrayed the Kurds, and Kurdish unity and representation in Syria’s new political order.
Sheikh Akram Mashoush talks to an SDF soldier in Heseke.

Sheikh Akram Mashoush: ‘After all the martyrs, how could we suddenly ally with parties whose mentality we do not believe in?’

Jabour Tribe leader Sheikh Akram Mashoush discusses the history of his tribe, defections from the Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria and the latest ceasefire agreement.
New map of Syria

Syria: Can the Rojava Revolution survive?

Dave Holmes — Western governments profess a commitment to women’s rights, democracy, multiculturalism and ecology, but in reality they see Rojava as a threat.
Ahmed al-Sharaa

Where is Ahmed al-Sharaa’s Syria heading?

Joseph Daher provides an update on the worrying developments under Ahmed al-Sharaa’s new government.
Defend Rojava global day of action

‘Your solidarity is part of our self-defense’: Two urgent calls from Rojava for global solidarity

Two urgent calls for solidarity with the Rojavan revolution, one initiated by Women for Rovaja and RiseUp4Rojava, the other from universities in Rojava/Northern and Eastern Syria.
Situation report cover pic

Stop war against the Kurds: Stand for peace, justice and freedom; solidarity with the Kurdish people

Kurdistan National Congress — The clear objective of the war of annihilation against the Kurds is to hand Syria over from the Baath dictatorship to the HTS dictatorship.
SDF soldiers

[Updated] Kurdish left statements: Defend Rojava!

Statements by Kurdistan Democratic Communities Union, Democratic Union Party and Kongra Star Coordination denouncing the Damascus transitional administration’s attacks on Rojava and North and East Syria.
Women in Qamislo demonstrate in support of Sheikh Maksoud and Ashrafiyeh

Syrian government launches assault on Aleppo’s Kurdish neighborhoods

Rojava Information Centre — Two Kurdish neighborhoods in Aleppo are facing an armed assault by the forces of the Syrian government aimed at seizing control of the neighborhoods.
Suwayda

Syria and the dangers of playing with fire

Gilbert Achcar on the origin of the recent bloody clashes in the Druze-majority Suwayda Governorate and the prospects of post-Assad Syria.
Protest in Afrin, Rojava earlier this year in support of jailed PKK leader Abdullah Ocalan.

The Kurdish issue, Öcalan’s call and developments in Rojava

Hamit Bozarslan talks about the historical roots of the Kurdish issue, Abdullah Öcalan’s call for the PKK to disarm and recent developments in Northern and Eastern Syria.

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