I am not seeking a balance here. I make no claim to neutrality. I consciously reject the language of “both sides.” Because I ...

Hawzhin Azeez is member of Kobane Reconstruction Board in the largely Kurdish area of northern Syria and a former politics lecturer at Newcastle university. In Rojava, a profoundly democratic and ...

Ten years have passed since the heroic and world-significant battle for Kobanî in northern Syria in 2014–15, where Kurdish-led freedom fighters broke a six-month siege of the city by Islamic ...