Women's art and culture festival in Rojava, March 2016. Photo:Rahila Gupta While I am in Rojava in northern Syria, the very first women’s art and culture festival takes place over four days. In a ...

Salih Muslim, one of the key leaders of the Rojava revolution in northeast Syria died on March 11 in Erbil, in the Kurdistan autonomous region in Iraq, where he was being treated for kidney failure.

Following days of deadly fighting between the Syrian Arab army and the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), the SDF lost control of three Kurdish-majority districts in Aleppo, leading to the ...

“The situation of media and freedom of speech is better in Rojava than in any other Syrian region”. This has been a common refrain in our discussions with local journalists and politicians on the ...

As Turkey contemplates another offensive against the Kurds, the dream of a just society in northeast Syria drifts further away. With the threat of yet another Turkish offensive against the Kurdish-run ...

An Islamic State tank beneath a statue of a Kurdish fighter in Kobanî, northern Syria. Elise Marie Boyle Espinosa, Author provided Kobanî, in the de facto autonomous region of northern Syria known as ...