It’s always an honor to visit Kobane!. Baathist Syria and the ISIS caliphate are long gone now, but both once looked unstoppable. People here were among the first to prove that both could be beaten—Kobane kicked regime troops out in 2012 & united the world against ISIS in 2014.

RT @AlMonitor: Turkey-France rivalry disrupts US-led mediation between Damascus, Syrian Kurds.Via @amberinzaman .

RT @YPGinfo: Key Excerpts from Member of the SDF General Command Sîpan Hemo’s Interview with @NuMedya24 . • “We are fighting for a democrat….

RT @vvanwilgenburg: According to the U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency, the appointment of Fayyad al-Hayes, leader Ahrar al-Sharqiya, as com….

I wonder what happens when state elites invite extreme inequality and corruption while the average citizen of their country is still living in poverty under the constant threat of jihadist militia raids.

RT @SinanCiddi: Cengiz and Kalyon are owned by two cronies of Erdogan - the closest and biggest grifters in 🇹🇷, who have benefited out of E….

The March 10 deal calls for the protection of Kurdish rights and the facilitation of IDP returns. Cracking down on theft and property destruction is bare-bones law enforcement. If STG wants to be a real state, it should uphold agreements and prevent/punish criminal behavior.

Syrian Kurds are being asked to share a country with people who stole their houses at gunpoint and then, when they finally were made to give them back, had the gall to steal all the doors and windows out of spite.

RT @amberinzaman: Kurdish militants return abducted Turkish agents, one dead, as fragile peace push continues via @….

North and East Syria has thriving artistic and cultural institutions producing works like this one that are admired by millions of Kurds in other parts of Kurdistan and beyond. HTS thinks Syrian Kurds should be grateful for the (hypothetical) right to open cultural centers.

RT @RojavaIC: The anniversary of this massacre comes at a time in Syria where the Druze minority group also recently experienced sectarian….

RT @RojavaIC: The event featured the unveiling of a cornerstone for a new religious sanctuary. There was historic participation from Bafi J….

RT @RojavaIC: Yesterday, in a village on the outskirts of the town Amude, a memorial ceremony for the 11th anniversary of the Shengal massa….

RT @Free_Yezidi: 11 years on, the pain of the #YezidiGenocide remains. Thousands still live in displacement camps, and around 2,600 Yezidis….

Unfortunately, it’s still relevant. Yezidis in Sinjar remain marginalized. The new state being created in Syria threatens to leave ethnic and religious minorities in that country defenseless and unrepresented, putting them in grave danger if a group like ISIS rises again.

Today marks 11 years since the Yezidi Genocide began. In 2022, Pari Ibrahim of @Free_Yezidi and I wrote this piece on how the international community had failed to address the marginalization and exclusion that facilitated ISIS atrocities against Yezidis.

RT @NPA_English: Coinciding with the anniversary of the #Yazidi genocide, Yazidis in northeastern #Syria lay the foundation stone for the c….

The sectarian trolls going “they can leave then” are, somehow, not entirely wrong. If YPJ can’t integrate, expect the women’s divisions of every Iranian Kurdish opposition party to suddenly get mysterious new members with combat experience and Coalition training.

RT @JamalyanAlisa: #YezidiGenocide is a continuing crisis. More than 2,600 #Yezidi women, men, and children remain missing to this day. The….

This is still rather patronizing and far from equal citizenship — Arab Syrians aren’t being asked to settle for cultural centers and translators in state institutions, they get a full right to their language — but it’s better than where they were before.