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 ...

In one of its final moves in office, the Biden administration is trying to secure U.S. influence over Rojava, the Kurdish-led region of northeastern Syria. Now that Rojava is being attacked by Turkish ...

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 ...

On the world map, Kobane falls in the north of Syria, right on the border with Turkey. According to the Kurds, however, it is the west of Kurdistan or “Rojava” in Kurdish. There is a train line right ...

The resilience of the Kurdish people who fight for their survival and autonomy serves as a testament to the enduring battle against colonialism, fundamentalism, and authoritarianism in this region and ...

ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - Members of the US Congress support “federalism” in Syria, an official representing the Kurdish-led administration of northeast Syria (Rojava) in Washington told Rudaw on ...

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 ...

DIYARBAKIR, Turkey - The Turkish government should establish relations with the Kurdish administration in northeast Syria's (Rojava) senior officials rather than limiting public meetings to Syria's ...