For months now, the picturesque banks of the Euphrates River have become a war zone, as Turkish jets bomb the hills surrounding the Tishreen dam. Protecting this vital water source are hundreds of protesters in need of international support, reports Make Rojava Green Again.
Syrian civil war
Salih Muslim, a prominent Rojava revolutionary leader and foreign affairs spokesperson of the Presidential Council of the Democratic Union Party, speaks to Green Left’s Peter Boyle about the serious setbacks to building a new Syria.
Colombian President Gustavo Petro condemned the Turkish drone strikes that killed Kurdish journalists Cîhan Bilgin and Nazım Daştan near Kobanê in northern Syria, reports Medya News.
The future of Syria and the Middle East is complex and uncertain, argues Khaled Ghannam.
Brazilian socialist Israel Dutra interviews Swiss-Syrian activist and academic Joseph Daher about the situation in Syria after the fall of Bashar al-Assad.
Sarah Glynn reviews the week’s extraordinary events in Syria and examines the evolution and nature of Hayʼat Tahrir al-Sham, whose forces have charged through the hollowed-out shell of Bashar al Assad’s regime and potentially beyond the control of Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan.
The fall of Aleppo and the withdrawal of the Syrian army and Russian troops without a fight cleared the way for Turkish-backed militias, writes Zeki Bedran.
A new report documents the ongoing human, social, economic and environmental toll of the Iraq war, reports Brett Wilkins.
The involvement of external powers in Syria's civil war has led to sheer devastation, writes Yanis Iqbal. Fantasies of "regime change" have fuelled sectarian war and revived jihadi groups.