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...

Understanding the January Offensive Against Northeast Syria In Northeast Syria, it is a way of inhabiting the world that they sought to annihilate January 2026 was marked by attacks of unprecedented intensity against what has become known worldwide as “the Rojava Revolution.” This predominantly Kurdish region in northeastern Syria had seen a revolution emerge in 2012 based on women’s liberation, environmentalism, and the coexistence of peoples within a system of direct democracy. This...