On Sunday night, President Donald Trump announced that American troops would be withdrawing from the border region between Turkey and the Autonomous Administration of Northeastern Syria. The official White House statement also gave its public blessing to the imminent and now ongoing Turkish invasion of that region. Northeastern Syria, also known as Rojava and home …
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Rojava/NES: An Experiment in Middle Eastern Democracy
Crowds inside NES territory. (STR/AFP/Getty Images) The Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria (NES) was born out of the conflagration that has come to be known as the Syrian Civil War. It would take a decently sized book to detail every phase of this 8 yearlong conflict, but the residents of the area commonly …
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