Will the anarchist-oriented Rojava Kurds ultimately be crushed in deference to Washington's NATO ally Turkey—or coopted into imperial clients? Is a third revolutionary option possible?
The death of at least a dozen peasant women in a Chhattisgarh sterilization program comes in the context of a brutal counterinsurgency campaign against the Naxalite guerillas.
Amid new unrest at the Temple Mount, Israeli Housing Minister Uri Ariel alarmingly said that Israel will eventually replace al-Aqsa Mosque with a Jewish temple.
As protests continue in Hong Kong, a new film profiles Joshua Wong and other young leaders of the movement, highlighting contradictions—including in their stance towards the West.
French philosopher Bernard Henri Levy was expelled from Tunisia following mass demonsrations that accused him of coming to the country to plot with Libyan jihadists.
Peshmerga fighters have joined the battle for Kobani, with Turkish acquiescence. But will Ankara and the West wrest a political price for this aid from Syria's Kurdish resistance?
An alarming confrontation between Turkish and Russian warplanes over the Black Sea ironically comes as both Ankara and Moscow seek to divide Kurds from the Syrian rebels.
Turkey insists the FSA must take control of Kobani if ISIS is defeated—but fails to say how this will be accomplished without fomenting war between the FSA and Kurdish forces.
Turkey protests US aid to the Kurdish defenders of Kobani, calling the YPG a "terrorist group"—while the US now maintains it is a separate organization from the PKK.
Uighur exile leaders were quick to disavow an article in al-Qaeda's media service portraying harsh oppression of Muslims in "East Turkistan," or Xinjiang.
The Assad regime dubiously claims to be aiding the Kurdish defenders of ISIS-besieged Kobani—a transparent attempt at an Arab-versus-Kurdish divide-and-rule stratagem.
The US has started to air-drop weapons to Kurdish forces defending Kobani against ISIS—opening a new set of contradictions for the Rojava autonomous zone.
