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1. Syria: Feminist hope amid multi-sided conflict

   hostilities” in Syria, sponsored by the United States and Russia, came into force on February 27. Only some of ... the internal and foreign participants in Syria's multi-sided conflicts signed on. The air wars ... that the US and Russia are waging in Syria are both officially directed against ISIS. But in reality, ...

2. Syria: Civil war threat as outside forces push both sides to more violence

   and 26, despite a ceasefire and the presence in Syria of 300 UN observers, 108 people ― including 49 ... attack on Syria. British foreign secretary William Hague told the BBC on June 1: “We would have to look ... Syria, as I’ve always pointed out, would have to be vastly greater in scale than was the case in Libya ...

3. Rojava's democratic, feminist revolution provides hope among Syria's horror

   (YPJ) Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) Democratic Union Party (PYD) Rojava revolution Syria can seem ... seeking to put into practice amid great odds. Rojava is a “liberated zone” in northern Syria that forms ... public affairs, the Charter recognises Syria's territorial integrity and aspires to maintain ...

4. Attacks on Kurds reveal Turkey's Western-backed terror hypocrisy

   Turkey's Incirlik airbase from which to conduct air strikes in Syria and Iraq. The reality is very ... their bases for coalition aircraft to go against targets, ISIL targets, particularly in Syria ... PKK and its allies in Turkey and Iraq, it was only targeting ISIS in Syria. Kurdish resistance ...

5. Turkey's war on Kurds escalates Syrian conflict

   11 that a threatened ground invasion of Syria by Western allies Turkey and possibly Saudi Arabia ... to have ended such dangers. For the past five years, Syria has vied with Ukraine as the key conflict ... The war in Syria is a multi-sided civil war and regional war, which involves brutal conflict between ...

6. Raqqa largely liberated, Rojava revolution holds commune elections

   Syria (AANES) The flags of the Women’s Protection Units (YPJ) and Shengal Women's Units (YJS) were ... the situation in Syria. Both the YPJ and YJS are fighting as part of the Syrian Democratic Forces ... democracy and women’s liberation that guides the Democratic Federation of North Syria. SDF and YPJ commander ...

7. Turkey launches genocidal invasion of Rojava

   devastating Syria for the past eight years is intensifying. On October 9, NATO’s second largest army, that of ... of North and East Syria (AA), three days after US President Donald Trump gave the green light in ... coverage has focussed on Trump’s sudden reversal of US policy in Syria. From late 2014 until Trump’s phone ...

8. Rojava fighters reject Amnesty report

   Imperialism & war Socialism Democracy Economy Tony Iltis Syria Rojava People's Defense ... Amnesty International released a report alleging “civilians living in areas of northern Syria under the de ... Facebook and follow us on Twitter. Syria Kurdistan October 25, 2015 1074 World ...

9. Australia is being dragged into US wars

   Iltis nuclear war North Korea Philippines Afghanistan US wars Syria UN General Assembly The threat of ... ’70s, to more recent conflicts in Iraq, Afghanistan and Syria. This policy has also allowed Australian ...

10. Bloodshed and uncertainty grow amid chemical fog of war

    a large cruise missile strike against government-held airfields in Syria on April 7. They fired about 60 ... Tomahawk missiles on the Shayrat air base near Homs in central Syria as the US government called for Syrian ... armed Islamist opposition groups in Syria, has also been shifting its focus away from Assad. In 2011, ...

11. Syrian talks exclude Kurdish-led democratic opposition

    officially begun”. Inside Syria, meanwhile, fighting intensified and the humanitarian situation deteriorated. ... even acknowledged that the negotiations had officially begun”. Inside Syria, meanwhile, fighting ... failure of the talks,” UN Special Envoy for Syria Staffan de Mistura optimistically told reporters. In ...

12. New devastation in Iraq

    with a democratic uprising in Syria descending into a multi-sided ethno-religious holocaust. ISI ... relocated across the border and became ISIS. The success of ISIS in Syria — becoming by 2014 one of the most ... foreign air forces. The US and Iran both have more troops and hardware in Iraq than in Syria. France, ...

13. Iraq: Mosul offensive poses new questions amid Western hypocrisy

    Iraqi conflict, but in the interrelated conflict in neighbouring Syria they back opposing sides. ... ISIS-controlled territory, of course, straddles the Iraq-Syria border. The group invaded Iraq from Syria, where it ... interference in Iraq and Syria. The current fighting in Iraq is a continuation of the multisided conflict that ...

14. Fresh 'blow back' as Iraq violence escalates

    previously known as Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, but which recently renamed itself Islamic State (IS) to ... neighbouring Syria. Syria Syria's civil war began as a mass uprising against the secular dictatorship of ... strongest opposition group in Syria outside Syrian Kurdistan (Rojova). This alarmed the West, because the ...

15. Behind Turkey's US-backed invasion of Rojava

    surface, it seems the war against ISIS in Syria is going well. On August 12, the town of Manbij was taken ... in Syria. The Syrian Civil War began after the Assad regime violently repressed a mass democratic ... National Coalition (SNC) as a government-in-exile and the FSA as its armed forces. But inside Syria, the ...

16. Kurds drive back IS amid West's shifting alliances

    our main effort, and it has to be, and the things that we’re doing right now in Syria are being done ... strikes against Iraq and Syria told an October 17 Washington press conference. However, the first ... this hard. This was demonstrated by Obama’s back down from threats to intervene in Syria after dictator ...

17. Britain joins bloody Syrian conflict

    Syria. Opposition Labour Party leader and veteran anti-war activist Jeremy Corbyn argued strongly against ... bombing Syria, as did protesters outside parliament. However, many right-wing Labour MPs supported the ... possible in Syria where the government of dictator Bashar Assad is not recognised by the West, who instead ...

18. Are Russia-West tensions a 'new Cold War'?

    Tony Iltis Vladimir Putin Russia's initiation of air strikes in Syria on September 30, a year ... after a US-led coalition began air strikes in Syria — both officially targeting the Islamic State of ... Iraq and Syria (ISIS) — began the latest round of speculation of a “new Cold War” with Russia and its ...

19. Repression and hypocrisy in Arab world

    of the people in Syria, manifested most recently by the use of violence and torture”, the ABC ... reported on April 30. US Senate Foreign Relations Committee chair John Kerry said the move “puts Syria ... considerably less attention in the Western media than in Syria. This double-standard has marked the West’s ...

20. Syrian talks fail to stop bloodshed, but Rojava example spreads

    (FSA) Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) Since a “cessation in hostilities” in Syria's multi-sided ... “cessation in hostilities” was brokered by the International Syria Support Group (ISSG), made up of the ... that the ceasefire would be extended to Syria's largest city, Aleppo, which is divided multiple ...

21. Iraq: West pushes yet another Crusade

    referred to by its previous name, the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria ― are directed against all other ... intervening in Syria on grounds the Assad dictatorship had used chemical weapons were rebuffed by their ... the IS revealed its global ambitions from dropping references to Iraq and Syria from its title and ...

22. US-led war in Middle East stumbles

    US and some Arab regimes, led by Saudi Arabia, have also been bombing Syria. The US military says ... strikes, up until November 19, 561 were against targets in Iraq and 445 in Syria. There were 843 by the US ... Syria. But not only did the Iranian regime emerge stronger in the region, the US was also unable to ...

23. Rojava revolutionaries show how to fight 'Islamic State'

    of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) — quickly claimed responsibility for the attacks. Almost immediately, the ... of Syria and Iraq. Between September and January, Kobane was besieged by a 10,000-strong ISIS force ... a dual nature. On the one hand, it is a well equipped army that emerged out of Syria's civil war to ...

24. Islamic State gives West excuse for war

    communalist agendas ― despite Western rhetoric about creating a united and inclusive Iraqi state. Syria IS ... control more territory in Syria than Iraq. However, while the Iraqi regime was installed by a previous ... US-led occupation, the regime in Syria is an official enemy. Some coalition partners, including ...

25. Who is defeating the ‘Islamic State’?

    US and Iranian-backed Shia forces.” In Syria the Assad regime’s extreme violence has likewise helped ... were extended into Syria in September. In a January 22 interview on Al Arabiya, US Ambassador to Iraq ... Syria and Iraq.” At a January 23 meeting of coalition partners in London, news.com.au reported that US ...

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