citizenship by the French mandate authorities. In the 1930s and 1940s, the region saw several failed autonomy movements. The situation for human rights in Syria...

Human rights in Syria are effectively non-existent. The country's human rights record is considered one of the worst in the world. As a result, Syria...

The Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria (AANES), also known as Rojava, is a de facto autonomous region in northeastern Syria. It consists...

into several self-governing regions. The Afrin, Jazira and Euphrates Regions followed from the cantons established in January 2014 and were envisioned as...

and others. During the group's existence, they fought alongside other Syrian rebel groups against the Syrian government and the AANES. Salahuddin al-Kurdi...

autonomous territories in Syria and ramped up attacks on the area. The PKK, SDF, and the YPG have denied any involvement and the AANES accused Turkey with...

Audrey Aanes (born 27 August 1944) is an American disability rights activist sometimes referred to as Mother of the Independent Living Movement in Alaska...

Öcalan in the AANES, where hundreds of neighborhood-based communes have established across the regions of Rojava. Like its sister organisations in the KCK...

of the Syrian government, Kurdification, and displacement.[citation needed] However, despite this the AANES has been the most democratic system in Syria...

Administration of North and East Syria (AANES) arrested the military commander of Deir ez-Zor Military Council known by the name of Abu Khawla, accusing him...