Highlights 10.-22.03.26

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# ETHNIC VIOLENCE AGAINST KURDS IN AFRIN

Following Newroz celebrations, Saturday night many Kurdish people were targeted with violence on the road between Aleppo and Afrin. The attacks included beatings, burning Kurdish flags, destroying vehicles and further means to threaten. The trigger supposedly was the taking down of the Syrian national flag at the Newroz celebration in Kobane. Shortly after, the ethnically targeted violence started. There is further videos of some (partially armed) mobs and motorcades entering villages to provoke and seek out Kurds. In response, people on Heseke and Qamislo took to the streets protesting against the attacks and ethnic divisions.

# DEATHS OF SALIH MUSLIM, FORMER PYD CO-CHAIR

At age 75, PYD politician Salih Muslim, who was part of PYD executive council, succumbed to kidney failure in Erbil. 2010 to 2017 he was co-chair of PYD and is also known as 'father of the country/land'. His youngest was martyred as part of YPG in 2013 in battle against ISIS. In a large burial ceremony on March 13, he was buried in Kobane with high ranking figures of the Kurdish liberation struggle present, as well as a North and a South Kurdish delegation. Politicians Leyla Zana, Tuncer Bakırhan, highest SDF commander Mazloum Abdi gave commemoration speeches.

# NEWROZ CELEBRATIONS ALL AROUND

Public celebrations for the Kurdish, Afghani and Persian New Year Newroz are being held in all major cities. The celebrations are not just a cultural expression, but an act of resistance in the face of decades of assimilation and attacks. This year's festivities are held under the motto "Newroz of Freedom and Democratic Unity". In Amed, the unofficial Kurdish capital, hundreds of thousands gathered to celebrate. In Cizire canton (NES), many celebrations had to be postponed to 24 March due to the floods. Newroz is also being enjoyed across the diaspora, for example in Frankfurt about 50,000 people joined the festivities.

# PRISONER SWAP SYRIA AND NES

On Thursday 300 detainees arrived to Heseke where they were elaborately welcomed. They were a mixed groups of SDF fighters, Asayish and civilians, abducted and held by the STG since January. On March 10th a group of 100 was already released. According to diplomatic talks the STG had 1070 AANES/SDF detainees. STG is also in possession of bodies of fallen SDF fighters that SDF seek to reclaim. Many hundreds of people from Rojava still remain missing.

# HEAVY DESTRUCTIVE RAINS

Because of the sudden heavy downfall of the last week, many towns, roads (including the important connection road M4) and IDP camps were flooded. In some places whole houses were destroyed in the overflowing of rivers. Heseke, Zirgan and Til Temir are the most affected areas. Municipalities collaborated with internal security forces Asayis to help and evacuate residents in need.

# TURKEY BOLSTERS ARMAMENT IN FACE OF US-ISRAELI IRAN WAR

In the Kurdish region Meleti on Turkish territory, a patriot rocket defense system was set up, and generally as part of NATO measures, Turkish air defense is strengthened.
UN Report Concluding that Human Rights Abuses Persist in Syria
Various investigators informing the United Nations Human Rights Council reported on abuses including extrajudicial killings, torture, enforced disappearances and abductions.

# TWO MEMBERS OF SYRIAN MINISTRY OF DEFENSE TARGETED

In separate incidents in Deir-Ezzor, two Defense Ministers were targeted by unidentified gunmen, one died, one was injured. In two further incidents, unidentified gunmen attacked Internal Security Forces of the STG, injuring one while others escaped.

# SIPAN HAMO DEPUTY DEFENSE MINISTER OF EASTERN SYRIA

SDF senior commander Sipan Hamo accepts position as deputy defense minister of Eastern Syria after being appointed by SDF.

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For Lorenzo Orsetti

The One Who Did Not Die for War, but for the Struggle in the Name of Humanity

For the anniversary of the martyrdom of Lorenzo Orsetti, Ş. Tekoşer Piling, Italian martyr of the Rojava Revolution, we publish the letter of an Indonesian friend, that found hope and inspiration in the struggle of Lorenzo. Lorenzo fell on 18th March 2019 in the struggle against ISIS, and his revolutionary approach to life, that arrived to us through his writings and video messages, became an inspiration to young people in Italy and beyond.

I first encountered you not through the news or the newspapers, but through a simple post on an anarchist website—without ornament or embellishment, just the quiet story of a fighter from Florence who chose to leave the comfort of his home to stand on the front line against the brutality of ISIS in Rojava.

Then I saw the video of your funeral, shared by Tekosîna Anarsîst — the Anarchist Struggle (TA). Your journey home was not accompanied by a rigid military ceremony or by the waving flags of a State, but by the banners of popular organizations, surrounded by hundreds of faces: Kurds, Arabs, Assyrians, Yazidis, Turkmen, all mourning together, calling you heval, brother, şehîd namirin—the martyr who never dies.

In a desert so often labeled “foreign” by the West, you were embraced as part of the family by its peoples. It was no coincidence. It was the fruit of a life lived with honesty, just as you once said: “Every storm begins with a single drop.”

As an anarcho-communist from a nation once crushed under the boots of Suharto’s “New Order”—where state violence was called “development” and freedom was labeled “a threat”—and now, watching history repeat itself as militarism rises again, remembering you rekindles something within me. In you I saw something rare: you showed that internationalism is not just a slogan. It is a shared hope that guides us all. Together with your internationalist comrades, you breathed life into its truest meaning.

You proved that a young European could live in the Middle East not to conquer, but to learn; to protect and in turn be protected; to build together what we call humanity and democratic civilization.

Your values—and those of your comrades—antimilitarism, antifascism, anticapitalism—are bridges. Not only between Italy and Rojava, but among all of us who reject a world divided between rulers and ruled. Here we are building ties with anticapitalist socialists from many traditions—anarchists, libertarian Marxists, autonomous communists, Marxist-Leninists—and in your dream we see our own: a world without oppressive nation-states, without markets that trade lives like data and commodities, without wars that benefit only arms dealers and banks. A world in which communes—not capital or power—shape our lives. The world you fought for until your last breath.

Lorenzo, here as well—in Indonesia, in Southeast Asia, across the Global South—we are planting those same seeds, despite repression, even in scarcity, still organizing underground. And every time we grow tired, we remember: somewhere, a young Italian, together with hundreds like him, chose to die for his convictions—not for a flag, not for glory, but for people who were not even his family.

Your spirit flows through every discussion we have had in recent years, inspired by the paradigm developed by our Kurdish comrades; through every small book we publish; through every clandestine political education session we organize.

You remind us that this struggle is not only about resistance to power. It is about love—radical love, without borders, unconditional.

¡Hasta siempre, heval Lorenzo!

Your dream is our oxygen.

And we will not stop—not until our last breath has also been given.

Bone, 18.03.2025

‘The ‘Problem with Cuba’? Its Example of Solidarity and Internationalism’
Speech by Federation of Cuban Women Leader Osmayda Hernández Beleño
https://world-outlook.com/2026/03/17/the-problem-with-cuba-its-example-of-solidarity-and-internationalism/

from #WorldOutlook
March 17, 2026

[...] The “problem with #Cuba” is that it spread its example of #solidarity and #internationalism within a destructive #capitalism that expresses the opposite.

The “problem with Cuba” is that it has been and is an example of self-determination and resistance against the criminal #blockade. It is the example of having become involved in the struggle to end the #SouthAfrican #apartheid regime. It is the example it provided when it received the victims of the #Chernobyl disaster. It is the exemplary commitment of the #medical and health missions that Cuba sends to dozens of countries, and that has deepened as a policy in the middle of the pandemic, when no other country dared to do so.

#NuestraAméricaConvoy
#OilForCuba!
#EndTheBlockadeEmbargo
#LetCubaLive
#news #politics #USpol

Communist Parties of Iran, Israel, and U.S. unite against war of aggression – People’s World

The emblems of the Tudeh Party of Iran, Communist Party USA, and the Communist Party of Israel. NEW…
#NewsBeep #News #BreakingNews #anti-imperialism #breakingnews #CommunistParty #communistpartyusa #cpusa #imperialism #internationalsolidarity #internationalism #Iran #iranwar #Israel #Politics #proletarianinternationalism #World
https://www.newsbeep.com/429356/

Highlights
02.03 - 09.03.26

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# OVER 1000 DETAINEES IN SYRIAN PRISONS

General Abdi stated he had been officially informed of 1,070 detainees in Syrian prisons, including civilians and military personnel. Intensive efforts are underway to address the issue within a specified timeline, and the return of detainees to their families is expected in the near term. He noted that several prisoners from both sides were released in recent days as part of practical steps to resolve the matter.

# 4000 AFRIN FAMILIES RETURN

The first convoy of displaced Kurdish families from Afrin is scheduled to return to their hometown on Monday as part of a coordinated plan between the Syrian transitional government and Kurdish authorities. The repeated relocations left many families living in temporary shelters for years, making the planned return to Afrin a significant step toward ending nearly eight years of displacement for thousands of Kurdish residents.

# KOBAN REJECTS THE GOVERNOR APPOINTED IN ALEPPO

The STG announced the appointment of Ibrahim Muslim as the new District Director for Kobani by the Aleppo Governorate. Political parties and forces of Kobane issued a joint statement the next day demanding the cancellation of that decision, insisting that such role should be filled by a local resident who represents all community components of Kobane.

# IRANIAN DRONES CRASHING IN SOUTHERN SYRIA

Iranian drones that are being intercepted by Israel forces are crashing in Southern Syria, in the Daraa district, few kilometers away from the Israeli occupied areas in Syria. The drones are often crashing on fields and sometime even inhabited areas.

# US DISCUSSING SUPPORT FROM IRANIAN KURDS

The CIA is reportedly discussing plans to arm Iranian Kurdish groups in an effort to encourage an uprising against the government in Iran. Donald Trump's administration has been holding talks with Iranian opposition figures and Kurdish leaders in Iraqi Kurdistan about providing military support. Allegedly Trump spoke on Tuesday with Mustafa Hijri, representative of Democratic Party of Iranian Kurdistan (PDKI), among other Kurdish representatives. The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) targeted Kurdish groups with dozens of drones following cross-border tensions in the Kurdish regions between Irak-Iran border.

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With West Bank under total Israeli closure, settlers are seizing the moment

Israeli settlers have killed two Palestinians and raided dozens of villages amid the war with Iran, as the army restricts movement and backs up the attackers.

https://www.972mag.com/west-bank-closure-israeli-settler-violence-iran/?utm_source=972+Magazine+Newsletter&utm_campaign=ef306ac299-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_9_12_2022_11_20_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f1fe821d25-ef306ac299-1401612935

#Israel, #Palestine, #Internationalism

I think we can state now that with the deepening of the war in the #MiddleEast by the #UnitedStates and #Israel we see ourselves slip into World War 3. There are so many actors involved and the #US and Israel are already signalling new wars on the horizon. After the attack on #Venezuela the US has also announced #Cuba will be next (https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/3/5/trump-says-regime-change-in-cuba-is-question-of-time-after-iran) and Israel is already pointing at Turkey as its newest threat with Israeli prime minister Naftali Bennett's recent remarks describing Turkey as "the new Iran." (https://monitoring.bbc.co.uk/product/b0005iqo).

Still leaders in #Europe don't seem to recognise that they are dragged along in it instead of bravely stepping up against this regime like the Spanish prime minister is doing. This is truly the time for Europe to hop off board and leave #NATO and turn its back to the #US. Only consequences will stop the US and Israel in further escalating these wars, not a single word has prevented them from attacking #Iran, #Lebanon, #Venezuela, the #genocide in #Gaza, the brutal occupation and land theft of the #WestBank

#StopWar #NoNato #internationalism #anticapitalism #antiimperialism

The ambivalent attitude of the government, no, the exaggerated liberal narrative about #humanrights in #Iran and #Lebanon as motivation for this war, is irresponsible and ultimately even works against the #Netherlands' own interests:

1. This war never started because of the interests and concerns of the people of Iran. If that were the case, there would have been intervention many times before, after every cycle of death waged against the opposition in that country. More importantly, however, it must be realised that the population of Iran is seen solely as a means to further the interests of the #UnitedStates, Israel and the states that align themselves with them. Everyone in Iran is suffering from the consequences of this new war initiated by the United States and Israel, including the opposition and forces loyal to the system.

2. When you are dead, your human rights are of little importance. Many cities are being bombed. This sets a precedent for more hatred and aversion in the West. It causes people to flee their homes and hearths, and it may lead people to seek revenge for everything that has been done to them by the West.

3. Fuel prices are skyrocketing.

4. With this war, the US will further bring Europe under its sphere of influence if it does not distance itself from it and cooperate. Remember, the US is the country that declared a few months ago that it wants to politically restructure Europe and is threatening to take over Greenland. This is still on the table.

5. The credibility of so-called "#internationallaw", the appeal to "human rights" and so on has been literally swept aside by some European leaders (including Friedrich #Merz). This sets a precedent for a further policy of the law of the strongest, instead of calling the US to order and showing other countries that we are a reliable partner. The #US is not this for #Europe, for Netherlands.

6. Human rights, press freedom and democracy are all under pressure in the US and #Israel. Israel even committed #genocide recently. If European leaders engage with such regimes and maintain warm relations with them, we must fear for our own rights and freedoms, our own security.

#geopolitics #internationalism #militarism