PKK has been forced into retreat. Its allies in Syria face a bleak future under a hostile regime strongly oriented towards Turkey.
Bitter Pill
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Syria
Where is Syria headed?
All countries must keep respecting the right of asylum granted to Syrians and continue to consider granting it to Syrians who demand it.
What is happening in Syria?
A coalition of Syrian rebels has toppled President Bashar al-Assad’s government and captured the capital, Damascus.
75 YEARS SINCE THE NAKBA, THE CATASTROPHE FOR PALESTINIANS
THE ISRAELI REGIME IS RARELY described for what it is: a settler, colonial state that practices apartheid against Palestinians. Palestinians have been saying this for decades. Human rights organisations, such as Al Haq, Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch and...
Palestine and Beyond: the Current Political Moment in the Middle East
An Exclusive Amandla! Interview with Gilbert Achcar A!: What impact has the conflict in Israel/Palestine had generally on the political situation in the Middle East? GA: Basically it's a further factor in radicalising the populations in the Arab world. You have...
Interview with Gilbert Achcar by Brian Ashley, August 2014
Amandla!: What in your view are the factors that gave rise to the latest assault on Gaza and why did it happen at this time? Why has it taken such an exceptionally brutal form? Gilbert Achcar: The real qualitative escalation in brutality goes along with the drift of...
The Kurdish Question in the Syrian Arab Spring | by Joe Lombardo
Calls resounding in the halls of power and in the media for American intervention in Syria have opened up a debate that has been over two years in the making: exactly who are the Syrian rebels? According to Moscow and some segments of the left, they are radical...
Can the Kurds emerge from the political wilderness?
Kurdish Human Rights Action Group, South Africa Amidst political turmoil in the Middle East, the fledgling peace process aimed at resolving the Kurdish question in Turkey remains on the agenda. A process has begun in Turkey which has the potential to find solutions to...
Syria’s Bloody Civil War: an interview with Gilbert Achcar
Interview with Gilbert Achcar, academic, writer, and activist, Professor at the Development Studies Department at the School of African and Oriental Studies in London (SOAS). Amandla!: What would you say to those who argue that the Syrian uprising may be an opening...