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1. Syria: New democratic front formed

   Democratic Forces of Syria held a founding meeting on October 12 and released a final declaration three days ... democratic military forces in Syria. It includes the People's Protection Units (YPG) and Women's ... important need for unity among democratic military forces in Syria in order to work towards peace. It said ...

2. Syria: Why Rojava is different

   Syria and weaken the Kurdish resistance against the Turkish state. Meanwhile, on December 27, the ... coalition’s formation “follows months of negotiations held in Turkey and northern Syria between the five ... Syria. Despite this, in 2014 it made several overtures towards the West, after having allied with the ...

3. Asia-Pacific left parties condemn attacks on the Kurds

   Turkish military has launched intensive air strikes on north and east Syria and northern Iraq targeting ...

4. Palestinian Film Festival returns in November

   of the daily life in the biggest Palestinian refugee camp — Yarmouk, in Damascus, Syria — and its ...

5. Photos: Hands off Rojava rallies held across Australia

   Kurdish region in north-eastern Syria. Protesters also called on the Australian government to speak out in ... States, Turkey has continued to carry out military actions in Syria. October 24, 2019 Australia 1242 ...

6. Anti-war coalition condemns Biden for bombing Iraq

   Imperialism & war Kerry Smith Sydney Stop the War Coalition US war on Syria War crimes War on ... coalition troops, the SSTWC said. “There is now evidence that the strikes were on Iraq, not Syria, as the US ... Iraqis, then destroyed Libya, waged a proxy war on Syria, helps Saudi Arabia continue its war on Yemen by ...

7. Rojava administration appeals for help to tackle COVID-19 crisis

   East Syria — the region commonly known as Rojava — are facing increased risk of contracting COVID-19, ... the Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria (AANES) has imposed a curfew, banned gatherings, ... losses”. Northern Syria March 26, 2020 1258 A medical team checks civilians for symptoms of COVID-19 before ...

8. Turkish invasion threatens iconic women's village in Rojava

   Middle East Kerry Smith Jinwar women communes Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria ... of northern and eastern Syria (Rojava). It was established by a Kurdish women's umbrella ... Turkish State and support Democratic Autonomous Administration in northern and eastern Syria in all ...

9. Turkey: Crackdown on HDP escalates with 82 new arrests

   Kobane in northern Syria by the ISIS and the inaction of Turkish government in the face of an imminent ... across Syria and Iraq and is carrying out ethnic cleansing against Kurds in Rojava, in North Syria and ...

10. Rojava Revolution celebrated in Sydney

    northern Syria. Greens MLA for the seat of Balmain Jamie Parker addressed the function along with the ...

11. #GreenLeft30: Celebrating 30 years of �鶹��ý

    �鶹��ý Kerry Smith #greenleft30 �鶹��ý  is celebrating 30 years of people-powered media on February 18. We would like to encourage you to join us at our anniversary event on March 27 with Kavita Krishnan. (Please book now!) Below are some of the m ...

12. World Kobane Day celebrated in Australia

    Imperialism & war Kerry Smith Rojava Kobane liberated Kurdish region of Northern Syria Tens of ... battling the ISIS in Syria. Last year on the same date, hundreds of rallies, demonstrations and actions ... Islamic State siege. The population of, the liberated Kurdish region of Northern Syria, led by the ...

13. 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 ...

14. Revolutionaries liberate Kobane, defeat IS

    with both the government and opposition in Syria’s civil war. The IS began their siege of Kobane in ... mid-September last year, the same time that the US-led coalition extended their air war in Iraq into Syria ... swept out of Syria into Northern Iraq, threatening the existence of the fragile US-backed Iraqi state ...

15. No Australian military to Strait of Hormuz

    a tit-for-tat between Britain and Iran over European Union sanctions on supplying oil to Syria — even though ...

16. Turkey: Defying attacks, left-wing HDP holds congress

    facing arrest over their opposition to Turkey’s military offensive on Afrin in Syria’s north. More than ...

17. Appeal to Europe for help to free Syrian asylum seekers on Manus Island

    their families were bombed in Syria. “It will be darkly ironic if Australia agrees to bring asylum ... seekers from Syria while Syrian asylum seekers languish in Australian detention centres. The dead boy on ... Christians would be the first to be selected from Syria. It is not just racist, and an explicit break from ...

18. Protestors demand end to US-Australia war alliance

    launched missile attacks on Syria, dropped the biggest ever non-nuclear bomb on Afghanistan and is now ...

19. Trump’s new Muslim ban already faces push back

    details. The new ban applies to people from Syria, Sudan, Iran, Somalia, Libya and Yemen, but, unlike the ...

20. Students protest weapons' development, climate destruction and abuse of refugees

    Palestine to Syria, renders us directly responsible for many of the refugees and asylum seekers now fleeing ...

21. Dakota pipeline struggle: Native Americans versus fossil fuels

    and growing catastrophe of climate change. The fact that there is no rain in Syria has directly to do ...