Rojava Is Fighting for Its Survival

> For days now, the Syrian interim government, together with Islamist mercenaries, has been carrying out attacks on Rojava, a de facto autonomous region in northeastern Syria. Not only is a humanitarian #catastrophe imminent, but also the end of the #Kurdish self-government.

> [..] After the fall of Bashar al-Assad’s regime in December 2024, the Islamist militia Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), under Ahmed al-Sharaa, seized control of large parts of the region. As a historic al-Qaeda affiliate, HTS lacks both viable administrative structures and broad societal legitimacy.

> Nevertheless, Western states, especially the United States, have signaled an early strategic interest in the militia’s political rise. For the United States, the UK, and the EU, al-Sharaa appears as a weak actor that does not control large parts of the country and can thus be easily co-opted into long-term geopolitical interests in the Middle East. Since seizing power, HTS has presented a diplomatic front to the outside world, while repression and #massacres are the rule internally. Alawites in Latakia, Druze in Suweida, and now Kurds have been targeted.

https://jacobin.com/2026/01/rojava-kurds-sdf-syria-war/

https://mastodon.social/@newsblogkurdistan/115956317738590318

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#Aleppo #DAANES #jihadist #revolution #SheikhMaqsoud #Turkey #attacks #Syria #Kurdistan #ISIS #UN #Rojava #Islamist #HumanitarianCrisis #MiddleEast #Druze #Kurds #Alawites #AlQaeda #HTS #AhmedalSharaa

Mum's outrage at Trump's vile slur after her soldier son's death at 18

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/mums-outrage-trumps-vile-slur-36599519

Meanwhile, in #Syria, the #USA ,with #Israel 's approval, suddenly traded its alliance with the #Kurds for one with the new Islamist regime in power. It could be that they need Sharaa - a former #AlQaeda leader - to ramp up pressure on #Iran .

#Kurdistan

https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/how-syrias-sharaa-captured-kurdish-held-areas-while-keeping-us-onside-2026-01-21/

EE UU mató a líder de Al Qaeda, señalado del asesinato de dos militares estadounidenses

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.elnacional.com/2026/01/ee-uu-mato-a-lider-de-al-qaeda-senalado-del-asesinato-de-dos-militares-estadounidenses/

Top al-Qaeda terrorist killed in US Syria airstrike after ISIS attack left three dead

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/breaking-top-al-qaeda-terrorist-36570543

EEUU bombardeó nuevas posiciones terroristas en Siria y abatió a un jefe de Al Qaeda

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://lapatilla.com/2026/01/17/eeuu-bombardeo-nuevas-posiciones-terroristas-en-siria-y-abatio-a-un-jefe-de-al-qaeda/

Today in Labor History January 16, 1991: The U.S. invaded Kuwait and Iraq. By the end of the First Gulf War, the U.S., under President George H.W. Bush, had killed over 1,000,000 Iraqis from the bombings and the effects of the five-year embargo they imposed. Then, ten years later, Al-Qaeda would attack the U.S., prompting Bush’s son, President George W. Bush, to launch the “War on Terror,” which was, in actuality, a war OF terror that would lead to the deaths of 4.6 million people and at least 38 million people displaced (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_on_terror). This places Bush the 2nd as seventh on the list of top ten most murderous men in history, just behind King Leopold II, of Belgium.

#workingclass #LaborHistory #iraq #GeorgeHWBush #georgebush #GeorgeWBush #potus #terrorism #slaughter #alqaeda #waronterror