#kurdish fighters

[cid5]

Guerrilla Fighters of Kurdistan

Sorxwin, March 9 2015, Tel Hamis, Syria

Top & Right: Ugab, YPG, Tel Hamis, Syria –– Left: Sarya with RPG, PKK, Makhmour, Iraq

PKK Guerrillas Pose Near Makhmour Trench Position, Makhmour, Iraq

PKK Guerrillas Pose Near Makhmour Trench Position, Makhmour, Iraq

Members of the PKK Rukal (left) and Ruken (right)

Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) Guerrillas Patrol Makhmour Countryside, Iraq

[melikemordemjaponi]

⭕️ABD Merkez Kuvvetler Komutanı General Michael Erik Kurilla, Rojava'yi ziyaret etti.

Ziyarete ilişkin açıklama yapan CENTCOM, Kurilla'nın Işid'lilerin tutulduğu Hol ve Roj Kamplarını ziyaret ettiği, ardından Demokratik Suriye Güçleri (SDF) yetkilileriyle Işid'e karşı operasyonları görüştüğünü duyurdu.

X aracılığıyla Amed Dicle(+fotoğrafları 1,2)

Fotolar 3,4-Rojava Security

Fotosu 5-Rojava Gündemi

⭕The US Central Command announces the visit of the commander of its forces, Michael Korella, to the regions of northern and eastern Syria.

US Central Command: Korella met with the Syrian Democratic Forces and discussed the war against ISIS

US Central Command: Korella

Via X- Rojava Security (photos 3-4)

Photos 1,2-Amed Dicle(from X)

Photo 5-Rojava Gündemi

⭕️米中央軍司令官マイケル・エリック・クリラ大将がロジャヴァ(西クルディスタン)を訪問。

米中央軍司令部は、クリラ司令官がISIS戦闘員が収容されているホル収容所とロジ収容所を訪問し、シリア民主軍(SDF)幹部と対ISIS作戦について協議したと発表した。

X-アーメド･ディジレさんより(画像①,②とも)

画像③,④-X/ロジャヴァ･セキュリティさんより

画像⑤-CENTCOMのプレスリリース(ロジャヴァ･ギュンデミより)

[rootjin]

dear radfems,

i want to introduce you to Viyan Antar – a woman who fought against ISIS – and the controversy that followed after her death.

Born into a kurdish family, Antar married very young through a marriage arranged/forced by her family. After three months, she got divorced and joined the ranks of the Women's Protection Units (YPJ) to fight for the emancipation of women from the hands of patriarchal oppression in the region.

Antar gained international attention in 2015 when a photojournalist took photos of her and described her as "the Kurdish Angelina Jolie". Many media sites recirculated the photos, turning it into news and also comparing her with Spanish actress Penélope Cruz.

On August 30, 2016, three ISIS suicide bombers drove cars filled with explosives towards the Kurdish front line. Antar and other YPJ fighters destroyed two of the cars but the third detonated close to Antar, killing her. Her death was announced on Facebook on August 31, saying she was "martyred in battle against Daesh [ISIS]".

After her death, news headlines announced "the Kurdish Angelina Jolie has died," emphasizing the physical resemblance between the two as much as her participation in the fight against ISIS. This was condemned by supporters of the Kurdish cause including other fighters. This is how the controversy started.

The media's treatment of her as a person was seen as demeaning by many Kurdish activists, especially given Antar's feminist leanings. Choman Kanaani, an activist and Kurdish fighter who repudiated the Western media's treatment of Antar, told the BBC that, "The entire philosophy of YPJ is to fight sexism and prevent using women as a sexual object". He added:

We want to give women their rightful place in society and for them to own their own destinies. Viyan died for these ideals. In the media, no-one talked about the ideals for which she gave her life, nor what Viyan achieved for women in Rojava in the past years when she joined YPG.

Agrin Senna, a YPJ commander also lambasted the comparison with Angelina Jolie and said all of the women fighters who had died and had refused to live under ISIS’ rule were equal.

Look at their pictures, they are all angels, all beautiful, you can’t pick one just because she looks like a Hollywood actress, Angelina Jolie or Julia Roberts.

They have nothing in common with them. They prefer to die rather than live under one of the most anti-women groups in the world.

Rest in Power, all the women who lost their lives during their fight against ISIS!

BERXWEDANA JÎYAN E!

[radfemsiren]

idk if you ever heard about rojava but they literally have a female-only city which is called jinwar and a whole ass feminist ideology called jineology and tbh they‘re based af. absolutely against libfems and for a matriarchy. kurdish women taking over the world.

My heart always has a soft spot for the Kurdish female fighters. They are such a brave and inspiring group of women.❤️ I knew they had a more progressive way of organizing and operating their lives in and out of battle, but I didn’t realize just how much land and resources they had taken over. It’s really beautiful.

“For an ISIS militant, one of the worst things is being killed on the battlefield, that too by a woman. They believed that they would directly go to hell if killed by a woman. For me, I was the happiest woman, as I could send a few men to hell,” - a 19-year-old Kurdish fighter Sterek Judhi.

If you ever hear me say I support the troops, I’m talking about literally only The Kurdish YPJ (Women's Protection Units) and other brave women like them.

[fromchaostocosmos]

Claims that Israel has been committing a genocide of Palestinians date to long before October 7. Yet the population of Gaza was estimated to be less than 400,000 when Israel captured the territory from Egypt in a war against multiple Arab countries in 1967. It’s now estimated at just over 2 million. Population growth of almost 600% would make it the most inept genocide in the history of the world.

Those repeating the word genocide over and over, turning it into a mantra that penetrates the public consciousness, smearing Israel and anyone who supports it, ignore the facts of this war. This is not an unprovoked war, like Russia’s against Ukraine. It’s not a civil war between rival militias, like the one raging in Sudan — which, by the way, is being ignored by almost everyone, even though the UN describes it as one of the “worst humanitarian crises in recent memory,” where a famine could kill 500,000 people. No, Israel was attacked. On October 7, Hamas launched a gruesome assault on Israeli civilians, killing some 1,200 — including many women and children — and dragging hundreds of them as hostages into Gaza. Today dozens — including many women and children — remain in captivity. Those who keep saying that Israel’s response is an act of revenge rather than the strategic, defensive war that most Israelis view as a fight for national survival against a determined enemy backed by a powerful country are deliberately distorting reality. In doing so, they are perversely evoking the same false blood lust and grotesqueness embedded in the blood libel archetype.

Indeed, Hamas’ actions, which precipitated this war, don’t seem to exist in the minds of ostensibly humanitarian-minded protesters. Nor even the fate of the hostages, still captive in Hamas tunnels. Although the campus protests vary in their message and actions from school to school, we never hear protesters chant that Hamas should release the hostages or accept a ceasefire. Quite the contrary. Accusations against Israel at times include praise for Hamas, one of whose aims — the end of the Jewish state — is shared by some key organizers of the student protests. As Secretary of State Antony Blinken recently said, “It remains astounding to me that the world is almost deafeningly silent when it comes to Hamas.” Accusing Israel of genocide and putting the entire onus for stopping the war, putting all the blame for the deaths, on the Jewish state is even more astounding because Hamas — designated a terrorist organization by the US, the European Union and many other countries — is a group whose explicit goal, according to its founding charter, is not just to destroy Israel, but to kill Jews. That is the definition of genocide.

Still, the death toll, even by the Hamas count, does not in any way suggest a genocidal campaign. The terror organization puts the total at about 35,000. The figure, disputed by The Washington Institute for Near East Policy among other think tanks and researchers, includes Hamas fighters. That means the number of civilians killed, whatever the total, is actually lower. Compare that to the death toll in Mosul, Iraq, where coalition forces uprooted ISIS from a city that had some 600,000 people at the time. Estimates of the exact number of deaths vary, ranging from 9,000 to 40,000 (the latter is the estimate of Kurdish intelligence). The lowest figure is on par with the rate of total deaths reported by Hamas authorities in Gaza that does not distinguish civilians from Hamas fighters, while the highest is four times greater. I don’t recall hearing the term genocide used there, or in any of the battles that led to more than half a million people being killed in Afghanistan and Iraq during America’s wars there. And yet, Israel has been repeatedly smeared with this damning accusation.

[guerillas-of-history]

Since mid-December 2015 Turkish security forces placed several predominantly Kurdish cities under 24-hour martial law and curfew on the premise of restoring public order.

Photographer Cagdas Erdogan shadowed fighters from the Patriotic Revolutionary Youth Movement (YDG-H), a youth division of the Kurdistan Workers' Party, PKK, in the southeastern Turkish city of Nusaybin.

[jewkbox]

Thd Kurdish women fighting ISIS

All-female battalions of Kurdish soldiers have been instrumental in fighting ISIS

"In Syria, the women of the Kurdish Democratic Union Party (PYD) have been recognized for their all-female fighting force. This force, known as the Women’s Protection Units (YPJ) have been heralded for their bravery on the battlefield. Al Jazeera reported that Kurdish soldiers from the YPJ had singlehandedly killed over 100 Islamic State fighters.[1] In the defense of Kobani, it was reported that up to 40% of the resistance fighting force against ISIS was made up of Kurdish women."

By the way, 98% of Kurds are Sunni Muslims.

[ritchiepage2001newaccount]

Project2025 #CorpMedia #Oligarchs #MegaBanks vs #Union #Occupy #NoDAPL #BLM #SDF #DACA #MeToo #Humanity #FeelTheBern

JinJiyanAzadi #BijiRojava YPG warns Turkey to stop supporting armed groups [UPDATES]

People's Defense Units (YPG) headquarters has released a statement denouncing the Turkish state's support to al-Qaeda affiliated armed groups ISIS (Islamic State of Iraq and al Sham) and al-Nusra Front…

RELATED UPDATE: Turkish tanks cross the border under ISIS flag

RELATED UPDATE: ISIS members cross Turkish border on live stream

RELATED UPDATE: Turkish borders open for ISIS

RELATED UPDATE: Jihadist captured alive tells how he joined ISIS from Turkey

RELATED UPDATE: Captured jihadist: Ismail Aga Sect in Turkey recruits members for ISIS

RELATED UPDATE: Jailed ISIS member from Turkey: Ismail Aga Sect sent me to ISIS

RELATED UPDATE: Bayik: Turkey's policy on ISIS is dangerous for the whole world

RELATED UPDATE: Russia reveals details of ISIS-Turkey oil smuggling

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[larimar]

nobelprize_org

BREAKING NEWS The Norwegian Nobel Committee has decided to award the 2023 Nobel Peace Prize to Narges Mohammadi for her fight against the oppression of women in Iran and her fight to promote human rights and freedom for all.

Her brave struggle has come with tremendous personal costs. Altogether, the regime has arrested her 13 times, convicted her five times, and sentenced her to a total of 31 years in prison and 154 lashes. Mohammadi is still in prison.

In September 2022 a young Kurdish woman, Mahsa Jina Amini, was killed while in the custody of the Iranian morality police. Her killing triggered the largest political demonstrations against Iran’s theocratic regime since it came to power in 1979.

The motto adopted by the demonstrators – “Woman – Life – Freedom” – suitably expresses the dedication and work of Narges Mohammadi.

Last year’s wave of protests became known to the political prisoners held inside the notorious Evin prison in Tehran. Mohammadi assumed leadership. From prison she expressed support for the demonstrators and organised solidarity actions among her fellow inmates. The prison authorities responded by imposing even stricter conditions. Mohammadi was prohibited from receiving calls and visitors.

Narges Mohammadi is a woman, a human rights advocate, and a freedom fighter. In awarding her this year’s Nobel Peace Prize, the Norwegian Nobel Committee wishes to honour her courageous fight for human rights, freedom, and democracy in Iran. This year’s peace prize also recognises the hundreds of thousands of people who, in the preceding year, have demonstrated against the theocratic regime’s policies of discrimination and oppression targeting women. Only by embracing equal rights for all can the world achieve the fraternity between nations that Alfred Nobel sought to promote. The award to Narges Mohammadi follows a long tradition in which the Norwegian Nobel Committee has awarded the peace prize to those working to advance social justice, human rights, and democracy. These are important preconditions for lasting peace.

[allthecanadianpolitics]

The UN special rapporteur on counter-terrorism and human rights says Canada is putting the lives of its citizens at risk by not helping to return them from prisons in Syria.

"It is inconceivable for any country, including Canada, to leave its vulnerable children in these camps for a day longer than they should be," said Fionnuala Ní Aoláin in an interview airing Saturday on CBC's The House.

The UN special rapporteur also accused the Canadian government of hypocrisy, arguing that its actions on citizens in Syria devalued other efforts on the international stage.

"Canada is the leading state on the children-in-armed-conflict agenda at the UN. But actually those words ring hollow when you're telling other countries to look after their children in other conflicts and you're not prepared to look after your own," she said.

A number of Canadian citizens have been detained in Syrian camps, suspected of links to the ISIS terrorist group. They haven't faced charges or been given a trial. The camps are controlled by Kurdish-led authorities. [...]

Continue Reading.

Note from the poster @el-shab-hussein: The article makes a grave error, be it an innocent mistake or parroting Western propaganda that conflates opposing factions. Kurdish authorities in Syria and ISIS are mortal enemies. They are nowhere near the same. The Kurdish autonomous region in Syria was cleared of ISIS by the Rojava freedom fighters. What has since been going on in there is unclear. Tagging: @politicsofcanada, @vague-humanoid

[dolcettamagica]

hi guys!!

most of you probably don’t know but the kurdish freedom fighters have been attacked by turkey (again) and it was italian day of liberation yesterday.

due to this i’m barely online – i’m partaking in demonstrations and meetings.

i’ll try to be more active next week!

[theupfish]

Yazidi woman held by IS for 10 years freed by Kurdish fighters in Syria | Islamic State | The Guardian

Most Kurds are also Muslim, for the record.

[captain-price-unofficially]

Kurdish Peshmerga fighters fighting the Iraqi Army with WWII weapons, October 1969.

[rootjin]

𝓦𝐞𝐥𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐞

call me azade (the free), i‘m 24 years old, living in europe

sag with my second house venus – scorpio, infj, ex-christian atheist who loves her crystals and candles

i‘m a radical feminist but i also believe in the kurdish feminist ideology called „jineolojî“ as well as the other ideologies from the kurdish philosophist abdullah öcalan

yes, i am gender critical. yes, i also criticize religions. i‘m also anti-sw (also porn and of!), anti-capitalism, anti-hook up culture, pro-choice and more

you‘ll find stuff i love under the cut

shows:

+ criminal minds, strangers from hell, aggretsuko, good girls, gilmore girls, black mirror, juvenile justice, mask girl, squid game, death note

movies:

+ blair witch project, the platform, the devil wears prada, incantation, the craft, cadaver, midsommar, unlocked

books:

other interests:

the kurdish freedom movement, true crime, psychology (i‘m a psych major), natural religions, gym, rnb, criminal psychology, the dark web, art, ypj fighters, politics, hunting pedophiles, uncovering religious extremists and their dog whistles

[girlactionfigure]

SUMMARY Tuesday Israel Realtime

🔻no overnight rockets / drones

▪️HOSTAGE CEASEFIRE LEAKS.. “the head of the Mossad continued the meetings in Qatar during the night and plans to return to Israel today. The negotiations have officially started and “there is a solid basis for starting talks”.  High level of Mossad, Shin Bet and IDF work teams are deployed in Qatar.”

All reported demands are OUTRAGEOUS, EXTREME, war loss type of demands.

▪️BIDEN SAYS.. on his Twitter account: "Today I spoke again with Prime Minister Netanyahu regarding the latest developments in Israel and Gaza. I continued to confirm that Israel has the right to persecute Hamas, the terrorist group responsible for the worst massacre of the Jewish people since the Holocaust. 

I reiterated the need for an immediate ceasefire as part of a deal to release the hostages, which will last several weeks, so that we can return them home and help the citizens in Gaza. I asked the Prime Minister to send a team to Washington to discuss ways to fight Hamas without a major ground operation in Rafah"

🔸GAZA.. the new battle for al-Shifa hospital, which was re-taken by Hamas as a command and control site, shows the IDF has a humanitarian problem - Hamas is consistently hiding in maximum civilian casualty sites, and a control problem, it appears they are taking and smashing but not occupying. 

While the Prime Minister announced Israel WILL go into Rafah, we also hear “a few weeks of preparation” while at the same time the U.S. is demanding approval rights on the approach, to make sure Hamas’s human shields are kept safe while Israeli hostages continue to rot.

The US, via various unspoken and now spoken threats, is effectively stopping Israel in Gaza.

🔸LEBANON.. tit-for-tat attacks continue. The Lebanese now report 90,000 evacuated civilians, and around 400 dead, with about 4 of 5 being Hezbollah fighters - an incredible targeting success although perhaps too discriminate? 

Hezbollah continues a gradual use of bigger weapons, and the IDF continues large bomb attacks.  But in both cases staying on mostly military targets and within short range of the border.

 🔸YEMEN..  Houthis continue daily shipping attacks, most miss, some interceptions by US/UK ships. The Indian navy has helped several hit ships. The Houthis admitted the Iranian navy ship is feeding them targeting data, the Iranians deny. 

US / UK bombings are basically ineffective, with them reporting “11 attacks, we took out 3 missiles”.

Saudi bombed the Houthis, not related to shipping, and the UAE announced the formation of a foreign legion / mercenary force to fight the Houthis in Yemen.

🔸JERUSALEM.. with tens of thousands of nightly worshippers, the Temple Mount compound has been kept controlled so far through Ramadan. There were a few attempts at riling up the Arab public via propaganda, such as “they’re installing blocking gates!” which were actually replacing of rotted out police control fences.

🔸JUDEA-SAMARA (West Bank).. the IDF continues a high volume of nightly counter-terrorism raids and arrests. However, there are also several daily attacks on the roads, shootings into towns, stabbings at checkpoints.

🔸SYRIA.. Israel bombs regularly sites where Iran is stocking weapons headed towards Hezbollah. But Iran continues to ship in weapons AND fighters. 

US bases in Syria have NOT come under attack since the US asked Iran nicely to stop it (and released to them $10 billion).

Turkey is now attacking northern Syria, where they have a Kurdish rebel cross border problem, and has committed to eliminating the problem and taking control of a security zone.

[probablyasocialecologist]

As a recent report by the Kurdish Peace Institute (KPI) documents, just 4 percent of an estimated two thousand foreign ISIS fighters held in the AANES-run [Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria] prisons have been repatriated by their home countries since 2019, when the ISIS caliphate was dealt the final blow by the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF). The so-called developed countries of the West have been the most reluctant to take back the men whose sympathy for ISIS first came to life within those nations’ borders. As Matt Broomfield writes in the KPI report, “States like France, Germany, Canada, Australia, Belgium, and the UK have all failed to repatriate a single male fighter.” An additional 12,500 wives and children of foreign fighters are languishing in underfunded camps. With only a trickle having been repatriated so far, the AANES finds itself unfairly burdened by the world’s jihadism problem. For years, the administration has called on the international community to either repatriate their nationals or to come and try them on the land where they committed their egregious crimes. Governing a war-torn region under a de facto embargo by Turkey and the Assad government, with no international recognition, the AANES simply lacks the resources to indefinitely guard and care for thousands of these extremists. With its pleas for help unanswered, it has recently announced that it will try the foreign fighters on its own, hoping to finally prompt action from an indifferent international community.