Thousands of students out of class as Kobani schools become IDP shelters npasyria.com/en/135411/

Yet another NATO source — in this case the leader of a close ally of Ukraine — claims that the US and UK undermined an early 2022 peace deal between Russia and Ukraine. Hundreds of thousands of deaths later, this story remains censored in the West, either ignored or dismissed as

Taken together, the Lattakia circular banning women from using makeup and similar measures suggest more than isolated incidents, Syria TV writes. Women point to their parliamentary members being more than halved in the new transitional government as well as at every

“Syria’s unity is not built by starving its people” | Syrian Democratic Council calls to lift siege imposed on Kobani city #SOHR syriahr.com/en/wp-admin/po…

🚨My latest: After murdering so many journalists, Israel would top Committee to Protect Journalists's "Impunity Index" for years to come. The solution? Scrap the ranking altogether. At least that's what staffers say CEO Jodie Ginsberg did to solve an embarrassing problem electronicintifada.net/blogs/ali-abun…

Everyone should read this piece about the ongoing humanitarian crisis that the Syrian Arab Army is perpetrating in the Kurdish city of Kobane despite the Jan. 30 integration deal. theamargi.com/posts/syrian-i…

This is insane. US Secretary of State Marco Rubio just gave one of the most explicitly pro-colonialist speeches I have seen in the 21st century. The US empire wants Europe to help it recolonize the Global South. Rubio praised Western colonialists for "settl[ing] new

A 12-year-old child died in the besieged Kurdish city of Kobane in Rojava on Sunday after it was “impossible” to transfer him to a specialist doctor in Aleppo “due to the siege imposed on Kobane by factions of the interim government” – Rojava-affiliated media

Finally got to read Rubio's speech in Munich: it is one of the most revisionist and imperialist speeches I've ever seen a senior American official make, and that's saying something. The man literally laments the outcome of WW2 because it marked the end of the era during which

Two Alawite women and the families of three others have shared details of abduction and assault with the BBC. All of them said the interim government had failed to investigate fully. One says its officers mocked her when she reported her ordeal. bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

Abdullah Habash, his wife, and their five children were kidnapped by an armed faction in Homs after a smuggler handed them over while they were trying to reach Lebanon. The family, originally from a village near Kobani, is being held for a $35,000 ransom they cannot afford.

Sharaa’s militias have kidnapped (read enslaved) 80 Alawite Syrian women and only admitted one case. Sharaa’s jihadi militias, who call themselves the Arab Syrian Army, kidnapped a number of Druze women too. Welcome to “post-tyranny Syria.”

Shaza, the Alawite activist in the United States, said her community remained grateful to the Kurds for their support. However, she does not believe there is much they can do. “The way things are, it is natural that they will just try to save themselves first. To keep their heads

One type of journalism that should be completely obliterated after this war is the laundering of infowar narratives provided by intel and psy-ops agencies. That will involve naming and shaming all the perpetrators.

The lawlessness under the interim Syrian regime has created a climate of fear for minority women. Kidnappings, disappearances, forced marriages, and trauma are a devastating reality. Many victims are never seen again; others return to lives shattered by violence. Women and girls

MUST READ but HORRIFYING report regarding how Syrian government affiliated forced released 24000 ISIS members. Lindsey Graham “Many have ended up in Idlib, President Ahmed al-Sharaa’s former rebel-held redoubt in north-west Syria, camping out in flats paid for by unknown

Trump: "The president of Syria, who I essentially put there, is doing a phenomenal job." Takebeer!

Today at Kurdish Peace Institute, we publish the story of Kobane -- how it resisted Baathist Arabiziation, ISIS attacks, and now a government siege that threatens civilian lives and prospects for peaceful integration -- through the eyes of a local journalist. kurdishpeace.org/research/kpi-q…

#BREAKING NEWS : Turkey-backed jihadists are preparing to attack Kobani. Reinforcements continue. The chief of rights group has confirmed that the ceasefire is not effective in the area, as Turkish-backed Al-Hamzat & Al-Amshat are receiving direct orders from Turkey, not Jolani

Language policies in Ukraine are under the radar of international audiences even more than forced mobilization and other "inconvenient" topics, even though they already go way beyond the legislative marginalization of Russian in the public sphere, the ban and forced removal of