Ankara says its army ‘will not stop’ if pro-Assad forces enter Afrin to protect Kurdish YPG
Appointment of Hammoudeh Sabbagh, a Syriac from Hassakeh, is part of regime efforts to nip Kurdish separatism in the bud, activist tells Alsouria Net
The enforcement of the Kurdish curriculum in northern classrooms has led to a rise in ethnic tensions and a large number of dropouts, Sada al-Sham writes
Ibrahim Hamidi explains the decision by Kurdish figures to divide northern Syria into three regions, including Raqqa after its liberation from ISIS
In northeastern Syria, families seek to hide their children from the forced conscription imposed both by the Kurdish and regime forces
Zaman al-Wasl describes a city paralyzed by fear, where young men go into hiding to avoid being arrested and tortured by government security, or escape to the countryside to die on the front lines fighting regime forces
Damascene Kurds celebrate their holiday in the capital with the festivities well attended by Syrian officials, including Jaafari, who made remarks on the occasion
The Kurdish celebration of spring, Newroz, banned in Syria for decades, is an occasion for Syrians to share some joy as the brutal war in their country enters its seventh year
The Syrian regime has used war to displace residents from strategically located cities and townships to northern areas of the country, a calculated policy of demographic change aiming at creating a factual religious and ethnic divide
PYD-affiliated group called Revolutionary Youth attacks a commemoration event organized by the rival Kurdish National Council in Qamishli
SDF’s attempts at forced conscription for Raqqa and Manbij battlefronts meet with censure from majority Kurdish areas on charges that Kurds should avoid fighting others’ wars
Senior Kurdish opposition politician shifts position towards Syrian regime and says his party is seeking self-rule
What is now the solution? It may need time and perhaps another revolution which brings us back to its famous first demands, of freedom, dignity and a Syria free of corruption, oppression, repression, and political prisons, writes Walid Bunni
The PYD lives in a state of confusion, a lack of balance and self-reconciliation and a loss of direction. It pretends it is with the Syrian opposition but coordinates with the regime, it pretends to fight liberalism and capitalism but runs to coordinate and ally with them.
What better way to achieve this than join a music or dance group?
ISIS allows civilians to leave the northern city by car and foot as Western-backed rebel forces lay siege to the strategic city
National Council says attack by militants in northern Syria represents an act of revenge against its bid for Kurdish statehood
“The minimum education is better than no education… I accept under our circumstances that my son can read and write, but we wait for a free tomorrow when I will teach him everything if life is destined for me and him”
KNC says project was removed from the national and geographic particularities of Syrian Kurdistan, adding the greatest damage will be done to the regional and national struggle
Residents stress importance of unity after Kurds declare de-facto federal region in Syria’s north
