Around seven ethnic Armenian fighters from the YPJ (Women’s Defense Unit) sit quietly on sofas around me, smiling gently when ...

ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - A senior official from northeast Syria’s (Rojava) Kurdish-led administration warned on Thursday ...

Rojava—which means “west” in Kurdish, as in the western portion of an aspirational Greater Kurdistan that includes parts of Turkey, Iraq, and Iran—was formed in 2014 when the government ...

ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - Kurdish authorities in northeast Syria (Rojava) have not discussed handing over control of camps ...

The Rojava courts have already tried and sentenced 7,000 ISIS suspects — most of them Syrian, and some Iraqi. Six thousand more are awaiting trial. Earlier this month, ...

Rojava’s project is grounded in decentralisation, gender equality, and direct democracy. These principles have led many to idealise Rojava as an anarchist or anti-capitalist utopia. However, it ...

Text “In Rojava: People’s War is not Class War”, which you can read below, represents a contribution of “Internationalist Communist Tendency” (ICT) to a debate that has been taking place in certain ...

Residents take part in a commune meeting in Rojava, Syria, November 13, 2015. A women's movement known as the Rojava Revolution was founded under the name Yekîtiya Star in 2005. Residents take ...

Rojava deserves US support, Kurdish officials say, not just because of the sacrifice of the 13,000 women and men who gave their lives to defeat ISIS, but because as a democratic, ...

Rojava: A libertarian myth under scrutiny. The PKK claims to have shifted towards anarchism, but traces of authoritarianism are still visible in its “Syrian lab”.

Rojava stretches along the Syrian-Turkish border for 400km or so, and is bounded to the south and west by the Euphrates River and to the east by Iraq.

Rojava is an interesting example of this phenomenon. The campaign for a free Kurdistan/Rojava was created by empire from the dreams of a lost empire.