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Yezidi YBS Fighters
[Kurdishstruggle/Creative Commons]
by Steve Sweeney
International editor
KURDISH officials have demanded urgent action from the international community after a report warned that more than 7,000 people have been kidnapped from Afrin by Turkish-backed jihadists since the 2018 invasion.
They called on the world to demand an end to the Turkish occupation and bombing of Afrin, as missiles continue to terrorise the civilian population in the northern Syrian enclave of Rojava.
The Afrin Human Rights Organisation’s (AHRO) end-of-year report, released on Monday, documents “a third year of grisly human rights violations, depredations and war crimes to be added to the black record of Turkish occupation in Afrin.”
CLAUDIA WEBBE looks at how Britain’s Nato ally has upped the stakes in its effort to silence domestic dissenting voices
VIJAY PRASHAD details how US support for Syrian President Ahmad al-Sharaa allowed him to break the resistance of the autonomous Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF)
