U.S.-allied Syrian Kurdish forces said on Thursday that Turkish attacks had killed eight people in an escalation prompted by a bomb attack in Ankara claimed by Kurdish militants.

January 2014 The Rojava Charter is adopted. 2014-2015 YPG and YPJ push back Islamic State and conquer the cantons of Raqqa and then Deir ez-Zor.

World February 18, 2020 Is This the End of Rojava? The Kurdish region of northeast Syria was autonomous for seven years, but had to ask the Syrian government for protection after an invasion by ...

In the cemeteries of its fallen fighters, his portrait flutters on flags in the wind. In the Rojava area in northern Syria, the YPG is trying to implement Ocalan's vision of a state.

Members of the female division (YPJ), the People's Protection Units (YPG) take part in the funeral of eight comrades on November 8, 2015 in Derek, Rojava, Syria. (John Moore/Getty Images) () ...

They always got great press, with particular attention focused on the YPG’s “badass” female fighters. Rojava was a rare cause that Lindsey Graham and Noam Chomsky could both get behind.

In Cologne, 10,000 people waving a sea of flags bearing the symbols of the Kurdish YPG militia and Rojava, or Syrian Kurdistan, demanded the end of the Turkish offensive, imposition of an ...

As a representative from Rojava’s Institute of Educational Science explained to us, the states around them “want to make our system like their system. They want to destroy it”.

But a handful of Rojava Peshmerga deployed near posts of YPG or SDF members isn’t going to alter Ankara’s view. Turkey launched air strikes against the YPG in Iraq’s Sinjar in April 2017 ...

Four Rojava Peshmerga were wounded in March 2017 clashes. They were very critical of YPG policies as they patrolled that lonely road within eyesight of the Syrian border, but unable to cross.

Türkİye, Politics Foreigners joining PYD/YPG in Syria Reports show the PYD/YPG has foreign fighters from US, UK, Canada, Germany, Netherlands and the Far East 02.03.2018 - Update : 02.03.2018 ...

Corneau-Tremblay also warns of the risk of YPG foreign fighters, who already considered themselves anti-establishment, taking up “violence against traditional symbolic targets (finance, military ...