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Afrin Under Turkish Occupation

It's been two years since Turkey invaded the city of Afrin, and the the occupiers goals of ethnic cleansing and the destruction of the land have so far gone uncontested. Sinam Mohamad, a diplomat in exile from Afrin, reports on the horrific acts of the soldiers on the civilian population as they have been relayed to her.

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Statement by University Students in Tehran Protesting Downing of a Ukrainian Airlines Plane

The following statement was issued by a group of students at Amir Kabir (Polytechnic) University in Tehran, protesting an admission of guilt by the Iranian government for downing Ukraine International Airlines Flight 752 with a missile on 8 January 2020. The flight was shot down in what one Iranian official called an “unforgivable mistake” and another said was due to “human error in a time of crisis.” This occurred after the 3 January US assassination of IRGC major general Qassem Soleimani in Iraq and the 7 January Iranian attack of the al-Asad airbase in Iraq housing American and Iraqi soldiers.

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NewsDavid Torciva
New Report by RIC on Rojava's Political Structure

This most comprehensive account up-to-date, based on interviews with local political actors, presents a critical examination of political structures and organizing strategies implemented in North and East Syria. It pays a special focus to ongoing challenges the autonomous administration faces, including the incorporation of non-Kurdish communities, and limitations of the political system, as it is currently implemented, in reaching the goal of a directly democratic governance.

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