In 2012 the PYD, a Kurdish political party connected to the Kurdistan Worker’s Party (PKK) based in Turkey, took advantage of the spiralling chaos of the Syrian civil war to eject regime forces from ...

The Kurdish rebels of Rojava, the northeastern region of Syria, promised a type of revolution that had never been done before. Rather than trying to break the country into ethnic states, they would ...

The silhouette of a hand indicates a “Victory” sign behind a Kurdish flag in Kobane, Syria, in February 2015.(Photo by Antonio Pampliega / picture-alliance / dpa / AP Images) Turkish armed forces have ...

Rojava’s model of empowering women is based upon the gender liberation perspective developed by the PKK and applied by the Kurdish movement and the pro-Kurdish Peace and Democracy Party (BDP) in ...

SULAIMANI, Kurdistan Region - Kurdish school systems in the Kurdistan Region and northeastern Syria (Rojava) agree on medieval Kurdish symbols but diverge on more recent history, a French scholar told ...

Please join us for a free and public forum on the history and future of Rojava with Professor John Tully and Diplomacy Representative Baran Sogut from the Australian Kurdish Federation. Catering ...

After the PKK's attacks targeting Turkish military bases in the Kurdistan Regional Government of Iraq (KRG) on December 22 and 23, tensions are on the rise in the region. On the night of December 23, ...

Celebration of the International Women’s Day in Rojava in 2021. (Photo courtesy of the Rojava Information Center) By signing up, you confirm that you are over the age of 16 and agree to receive ...

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