As tensions continue in Sinjar, North East Syria and Iraqi Kurdistan, Kurdish artists have commented on the increase in attacks against the Kurdish people and the importance of Kurdish national unity.Read More
Hediye Özdemir’s house has been raided 200 times in 27 years. “The police even once raided our house to ask where was my husband when he was in prison”, she saidRead More
As protests against corruption continue, the Democratic Union Party (PYD) made a statement arguing that Iraqi Kurdistan security forces consider Kurds from North East Syria to be criminals.Read More
On 11 December thousands marched in the Aleppo province of Syria to protest the isolation of Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) leader Abdullah Öcalan, who is imprisoned in the İmralı F-type High Security Prison in Turkey. Appeals to resist and fight for the freedom of people in the Middle East, women and Öcalan were made during […]Read More
288 people were killed during the curfews declared on December 14, 2015 and continued until March 2, 2016 in Cizre (Cızir) district of Şırnak (Şirnex) province of Turkey.Read More
The body of Mercan Erkol (Berîtan Tolhildan), a fighter of the The People’s Defense Forces (HPG) who lost her life in an air assault in October 16, 2017 in the Kulp (Pasur) district of Diyarbakır (Amed), has still not been delivered to her family for three years despite the sample of her DNA matching with […]Read More
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The International Volunteers of Rojava – Part 3 – Criminalisation
Mark Campbell “If you’re not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing.” Malcolm XRead More
Bedran Çiya Kurd, Autonomous Administration of North East Syria deputy co-chair, shared his evaluations on the latest developments in Northern Syria and the Middle East with Hawar News Agency.Read More
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Iraqi state forces attack protestors in Sulaymaniyah
The state forces of the Iraqi government used tear gas and weapons attacking the protestors, who came together in front of the Defence Council of Sulaymaniyah, Hawar News Agency (ANHA) reports.Read More
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) announced that Turkey has sent a military shipment to southern Idlib in Syria, according to a Hawar News Agency (ANHA) report.Read More
