International Solidarity: The Case for Supporting Rojava, Part 4 Flags of the Syrian government, Rojava/Federation of Northern Syria, the Syrian opposition, and the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (Continued from Parts 1, 2, and 3) Over five years ago an uprising in Dara’a, Southern Syria, set into motion the events that would eventually culminate in the […]
International Solidarity: The Case for Supporting Rojava, Part 2 Flags of the Syrian government, Rojava/Federation of Northern Syria, the Syrian opposition, and the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham Over five years ago an uprising in Dara’a, Southern Syria, set into motion the events that would eventually culminate in the multi-front Syrian Civil War we […]
Flags of the Syrian government, Rojava/Federation of Northern Syria, the Syrian opposition, and the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham Over five years ago an uprising in Dara’a, Southern Syria, set into motion the events that would eventually culminate in the multi-front Syrian Civil War we see today. Throughout the conflict one group in particular […]
Recently a series of videos was uploaded by a pro-regime media outlet that purported to show operations near Khan Tuman, south of Aleppo, Syria. The videos are mostly of anti-aircraft guns in pickup trucks (technicals) firing wildly at targets unseen, but some clips show behind-the-scenes information about the war that you cannot really see any […]
On 5 May 2016 forces from the Syrian Islamist conglomeration Jaysh al-Fatah (Army of Conquest) launched an offensive on Khan Tuman, a village 15km south of Aleppo. The battle was filmed from several angles, with some cameras being on the ground and others mounted on drones. The video featured a VBIED attack followed by a “mechanized” […]
It is mid-2014 and fighting is raging all across Syria and Iraq. In northern Syria, the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham, or ISIS (Henceforth Daesh), is on the offensive. Throughout July and August, thousands of ethnic Kurds fled north toward Turkey, many through the border town of Kobanê. Kobanê is the seat of the […]
