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Autonomous Kurds are setting an example for how Syria could include minority groups and end discrimination and violence against them. Dig deeper ( 7 Min. Read )
Matt Broomfield / AK PressJul 18, 2025
The Kurdish movement’s radical response to death may hold lessons for those offering up resistance in other parts of the world. Dig deeper ( 12 Min. Read )
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As Trump shifts U.S. policy, former defenders now concede what was long denied — that economic warfare takes aim at the citizenry. Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )
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Juan Cole / Informed CommentMay 14, 2025
Whatever Donald Trump's motivations for the move might be, this is a clear win for the Syrian people. Dig deeper ( 5 Min. Read )
Matt Broomfield / Responsible StatecraftApr 25, 2025
It probably won't lead to the violence and humiliation of other botched departures, including from the same region in 2019. Dig deeper ( 5 Min. Read )
Angéline Desdevises / TruthdigFeb 13, 2025
Photographer Angéline Desdevises captures life in Kurdish Syria, where the region's boldest democratic experiment finds new sources of resilience amid fresh rubble and political uncertainties. Dig deeper
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Turkish airstrikes and an Islamist power in Damascus endanger the future of Syrian Kurdistan’s multiethnic democratic federation. Dig deeper ( 12 Min. Read )
Freddie deBoer / TruthdigJan 17, 2025
Revisiting the inter-left debate on the Assad regime with a specific eye to the staunch moralists who supported his overthrow. Dig deeper ( 8 Min. Read )
Arun Gupta / TruthdigJan 2, 2025
The nation's success on the battlefield masks the beating it is taking as an international pariah. Dig deeper ( 7 Min. Read )
Peter Van Buren / Responsible StatecraftDec 13, 2024
Washington torched the region and watched it burn through regime changes, Arab Spring, civil wars, and the regeneration of terror groups. Dig deeper ( 5 Min. Read )
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