For a decade, the autonomous territory in Syria has been a bastion of gender equality. It holds important lessons for the fight against authoritarianism, says author Natasha Walter ...

ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - The spokesperson of the Women’s Protection Units (YPJ) told Rudaw on Tuesday that Damascus-backed ...

Kurdish women fighting Isis were once feted in the US and UK media. But support for the Kurds of north and east Syria - now ...

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 ...

ERBIL, Kurdistan region - The Kurdish-led administration of northeast Syria (Rojava) on Sunday announced a state of “general ...

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 ...

When I sat down to write this, my last column of the semester, I struggled for the right words. I imagined all the really distressing things I could throw at you. The United States is privileged ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...