Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. GENERAL HUSSEIN Yazdanpanah of the Kurdistan Freedom Party (PAK) in front of PAK troops. (photo credit: Courtesy PAK) The Office ...

Interview with Kurdish filmmaker Sevînaz Evdikê about the situation of women in Rojava and the Islamist regime in Damascus. Sevînaz Evdikê (born 1992 in Serêkaniyê, Rojava) studied film in Northern ...

One of the main factors in stopping the massacres and clashes in Rojava was the intense pressure applied by the Israeli government in its talks with the U.S. administration. Israel did not stand ...

Beyond what many see as a recent betrayal, the reality for Kurds in the Islamic regime will likely only worsen if the US and Israel fail to secure regime change.

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For over a decade, Rojava has represented one of the most ambitious political experiments that has arisen from the ruins of the Syrian civil war. Driven by a utopian vision of grassroots democracy and ...

Syrian army soldiers recover a drone used to monitor positions of the Syrian Democratic Forces on the front line in the village of Al-Malkieh, Syria, January 16, 2026. PHILÉMON BARBIER/HORS FORMAT FOR ...

There is a burning desire among the Kurdish people to unite with the West and Israel to topple the regime in Tehran, yet ...

American support for Syria’s subjugation of “Rojava”—the autonomous Kurdish-led administration in its northeast—is regarded by many of its supporters as a betrayal. “Rojava” is the name that many ...

At a time when we are trying to heal the deep wounds and bleeding relationship between Turks and Kurds left from the 20th century, stop reopening those wounds and deepening the pain. There was a ...