A Story from Rojava

by Klara These brief lines, taken from the diary of a young internationalist in Rojava, tell us about the early moments of the advance of HTS and the Islamic State towards the DAANES (Democratic Autonomous Administration of Northeast Syria). In January 2026, after heavy attacks against the population of the Sheikh Masqsoud and Asrafiye neighborhoods in Aleppo, the jihadist militias of the government targeted the whole of Rojava. Despite an agreement between the forces of the Syrian...