What is happening in Syria? More than half a million people have died since the war in Syria began in 2011. Five million Syrians have sought refuge abroad and more than 6 million have been internally displaced.
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Large rallies were held in towns throughout Idlib on September 14 in response to the threat by the Assad regime to invade the province in Syria鈥檚 north-west.
Idlib is currently controlled by a mixture of rebel groups. The strongest is Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), an extremely reactionary Islamist group that controls 60% of the province.
The Assad regime and its allies have been building up their forces around the rebel-held Idlib province, in Syria鈥檚 north-west, in preparation for a major offensive. Some bombing raids have already been carried out in the south and west of the province.
The Kurdistan Communities Union (KCK) is an umbrella group of left-wing organisations in Turkey, Syria, Iraq and Iran that adhere to the ideology of Kurdish revolutionary leader Abdullah Ocalan (known as 鈥淎po鈥), currently in jail in Turkey. Forces associated with the KCK have helped lead the Rojava Revolution in Syria鈥檚 north, which marked its sixth anniversary on July 19, the day Kurdish-led forces staged an insurrection.
Manjib is an ethnically diverse city in northern Syria. In 2014, it was occupied by ISIS (also known as Daesh). In 2016, the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF, an alliance of armed groups supporting the model of grassroots democracy associated with the Rojava Revolution) had liberated the city.
Emel Dede is one of the Manbij Turkmen聽women who lived under the Syrian regime first, and then the Free Syrian Army and Daesh. She has been working for two years now for her future and the future of Manbij. She talked to B锚r卯tan Sarya聽and聽Axin Tolhildan about this.
The world is looking the other way as Turkey plans to build on its successful occupation of Afr卯n to expand its power with a new round of ethnic cleansing, John Tully writes.
As Ireland prepares for its referendum today, May 25, on repealing the聽constitutional amendment prohibiting free, safe, legal abortion, women and health workers in Rojava, the largely Kurdish area in Syria's north,聽have expressed their solidarity with Irish women鈥檚 right to choose.
With the exception of the Vatican state and Malta, Ireland has the most restrictive abortion laws in Europe. It exceeds Saudi Arabia and Qatar in its restrictions on women鈥檚 rights to basic reproductive health.
A suspected chemical weapons attack on April 8 killed at least 60 people and wounded more than 1000 in the Syrian town of Douma, the last rebel-held town in Eastern Ghouta. The Syrian opposition blamed the Assad government for carrying out the attacks, but Syria denied having any role. The chemical attack came one day after Syrian forces launched an air and ground assault on Douma.
After the chemical attack on Douma on April 8 in which dozens of people were killed, the below.
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The Democratic Autonomous Administration of Afrin Canton in Syria鈥檚 north, which is resisting Turkey鈥檚 occupation, has warned all Syrians that Turkey鈥檚 murderous attack aims at ethnic cleansing.
Turkey鈥檚 murderous invasion of the Afrin canton in Syria鈥檚 north, backed explicitly or implicitly by Russia and the US, succeeded in taking the canton鈥檚 capital on March 18. But Kamran Martin says this is far from the end for the Kurdish-led resistance in defence of the democratic revolution in the region.
The Kurdish Red Crescent reported on February 27 that at least 348 civilians had died in the conflict begun by Turkey鈥檚 January 20 invasion of northern Syria鈥檚 small enclave of Afrin.
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