Syrian Democratic Forces

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.
A Syrian Democratic Forces member stands guard along a road in town of al-Busayrah in Syria's Deir Ezzor province, on 4 September 2023

Why Arab tribes haven’t defected from the Syrian Democratic Forces

Aymenn Jawad al-Tamimi — After the Assad regime’s collapse, many predicted the SDF would rapidly unravel from within. Those expectations have not materialised.
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.
Salih Muslim

Salih Muslim (Democratic Union Party): ‘The Syrian Democratic Forces–Damascus agreement is consistent with Öcalan’s letter’ (plus statements from Rojavan organisations)

Salih Muslim explains the content of the agreement signed between Syrian Democratic Forces General Commander Mazlum Abdi and Syrian Interim President Ahmed al-Sharaa.
Free Syria cartoon

After the fall: Hope amid the ruins of post-Assad Syria

Kevin B. Anderson — A few months after the epochal fall of the Assad dictatorship, Syria remains in flux. Nonetheless, some broad outlines of where Syria is going can be discerned.
Mazloum Abdi

Mazloum Abdi (Syrian Democratic Forces): ‘The HTS administration and those seeking a solution to the Syrian crisis must work to stop the attacks on North and East Syria’

Mazloum Abdi assesses the changes in Syria since the fall of the Assad regime, the attacks by Turkey and its mercenaries on Rojava, and developments in dialogues with the Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham administration and between Kurdish political parties.
Kobani 10 year anniversary

Statements: On the tenth anniversary of the liberation of Kobani

Statements by the Syrian Democratic Forces, Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria and People's Defense Units on the tenth anniversary of the liberation of Kobani.
Celebration in Damascus

Syria’s popular revolution and the extraordinary collapse of Assad’s genocidal regime

Michael Karadjis — There will be many struggles ahead, but for now Syrians are celebrating one of the most decisive and popular revolutions ever.
Members of the Syrian community in Istanbul hold up a banner of Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdoğan as they celebrate the fall of Syrian president Bashar al-Assad this week

Erdoğan’s Syria?

Cihan Tuğal — Though the balance of forces has shifted in Erdoğan’s favour for the time being, fantasies about a Turkish imperial restructuring of the region are unfounded.
Free Syria flag at protest

From Syria to Palestine, liberation comes from below

Joseph Daher explains why the Assad regime's toppling in Syria is important to liberation efforts across the region, especially for the Palestinian struggle.

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