‘Rebuilding’ and social cleansing in Syria
The Assad regime has laid out a blueprint for the reconstruction of Syria. But Syrian architects and urban planners Hani Fakhani and Sawsan Abou Zainedin say it's a…
Turkey is running northern Syria dry
Gisella Ligios reports from Rojava on the threat of food and water insecurity, and its impact on farming livelihoods.
The search for Syria’s missing
The families of the disappeared are not giving up their search until they have answers. Jan-Peter Westad reports.
100 years of hope, struggle and betrayal
The Kurdish quest for freedom and independence has been long, dramatic and complicated. Here’s a potted history of the past century.
Utopia disrupted: Turkey’s assault on Kurdish-held Afrin
What is at stake in Afrin today is the future of an alternative democratic and multi-cultural Middle East, Dilar Dirik writes.
The interview: Mohamad Hafez
The Syrian-American architect and artist about the power of nostalgia and his lifelong homesickness for Syria.
Q&A with Zaina Erhaim
Anton Mukhamedov speaks with the Syrian reporter about the challenges of being a female journalist and the need to document atrocities.
Betrayed again
Under the cover of Covid-19, Turkey is hammering the Kurds. Again. Should the world care? Vanessa Baird offers several good reasons why it should.
‘Socially dangerous’ for having fought off ISIS
Stefania D’ignoti speaks to a group of volunteers met with hostility and legal persecution after returning to Italy from the autonomous Kurdish-held region of Rojava.
Unbowed
Turkey is bent on extinguishing a beacon of women’s liberation in northern Syria. But the women of Rojava are not giving up, writes Dilar Dirik.
Portraits of war-torn Syrian cities
For those in government-held cities, only fragments of normality remain. Sally Hayden writes.
Country Profile: Lebanon
Civil war, ISIS invasions, mountains of rubbish. Reem Haddad reports from Beirut.
The assault on Rojava
Rahila Gupta on why Turkey is encroaching on Rojava, an autonomous democratic commune fighting on the frontlines against ISIS.
After Isis
Most European countries refuse to repatriate the thousands of former ISIS foreign fighters and their families now held in Kurdish camps in Syria., but Kosovo is bringing its citizens home. Sara Manisera reports.
‘They’ve never experienced being a refugee’
Who is better placed to cover forced migration than refugees themselves? Bairbre Flood reports on the journalists putting refugees’ voices at the heart of the conversation.
Water as a weapon of war
Turkey is restricting access to a vital life source for thousands of people in northeast Syria. A new crowdfunder is raising money for water infrastructure in the region, writes Jo Taylor from the campaign.
Defending Rojava
As Turkey continues its assaults on Kurdish regions, the international campaign RiseUp4Rojava issues a call for solidarity in defence of the social revolution in North-East Syria.
Who cares? Humanitarianism under threat
Hazel Healy investigates the challenges facing 21st century disaster response.
Turkey ramps up war on Kurds in Northern Iraq
Turkish airstrikes in Northern Iraq are nothing new, but the recent co-ordinated air and ground assault is unprecedented, writes John Lubbuck.
Voices from the front line
Activists meet this weekend to discuss a new internationalism for this century. Viyan Serhildan reports.
Migrant deaths: tragedy – or murder?
Nanjala Nyabola asks why migration policies have become so deadly, and what it will take to change them.
Hall of Infamy: Kais Saied
An autocrat in institutional clothing, the Tunisian president has crushed the hopes of democrats in the birthplace of the Arab Spring.
