LOS ANGELES – Photographer Erin Trieb spent a week documenting members of the YPJ at numerous military posts in Northeastern Syria and along the Syrian-Kurdish border for Marie Claire magazine. The ...

ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - A group of more than 30 European municipal and parliamentary officials, political party and civil society representatives, and journalists visited northeast Syria (Rojava) ...

Rojava, the Kurdish-majority liberated zone in northern Syria, is the location of a unique experiment in grassroots, participatory democracy. It is undergoing a profound social revolution that ...

Some pretend that coming to Rojava and risking your life plays into the hands of the US and their imperialist interests, others say that I get payed 5000 dollars each month by the billionaire George ...

One of the most fascinating aspects of my recent trip to Rojava, the Kurdish region of Syria, was its leaders’ focus on empowering women. The failure of many Mideast nations to let women play a major ...

Funerals of 13 YPG/YPJ members were delivered to their families while 11 funerals are still being kept in Mürşitpınar border gate, near Syria. At 11 o’clock in the morning, autopsies were performed on ...

There’s an old adage: The Kurds have no friends but the mountains. The Chicago Committee for Solidarity with Kurdistan and Rojava and local anarchist group Black Rose Chicago came together Saturday in ...

ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - The Kurdish-led administration in northeast Syria (Rojava) announced on Sunday that it handed over a Brazilian woman and a child - identified as family of Islamic State (ISIS ...

The autonomous region of Rojava, as it exists today, is one of few bright spots – albeit a very bright one – to emerge from the tragedy of the Syrian revolution. David Graeber[1] In the last decades ...

On October 12, Amnesty International released a report alleging “civilians living in areas of northern Syria under the de facto control of the Autonomous Administration led by the Partiya Yekîtiya ...

A new model of social organization is taking shape in the Kurdish areas of northern Syria. Rojava, as it is known, comprises three cantons in the western section of the historical homeland of the ...

One of the most fascinating aspects of my recent trip to Rojava, the Kurdish region of Syria, was its leaders' focus on empowering women. The failure of many Mideast nations to let women play a major ...