Resistance Diaries: Voices

Arriving in North-East Syria means searching; it means asking questions. Beneath the light of a brilliant full moon, I find myself asking the hevals—the comrades—new questions, old questions, existential, philosophical, and practical ones. What shape do I want to give to our existence? What does it mean to be young and struggle against war? How […]

January 18, 2026 We’re sitting in the car, driving to Hesekê. It’s evening, and the tension is palpable. The enemy has advanced to the city’s outskirts, and we’ve set out to join the medical teams. Only a few cars are traveling in the same direction as us; we encounter refugees from Tebqa and Raqqa, families

19 January 2026 It has now been exactly one year since another young internationalist woman and I were there, in the resistance at the Tishreen Dam. After the resistance of society successfully pushed back the jihadist SNA militia and a ceasefire was negotiated, this year in Rojava was marked by struggle, hope, reflection and action.

February 1, 2026 QAMIŞLO The first day of the new agreements between our forces and HTS with Al-Jolani. Agreements that are necessary after this brutal and disgusting war. Nevertheless, we are all filled with anger. Southern Syria is in the hands of Israel. In the north, Turkey will leave Syria. The people of Sheikh Maqsoud,

January 11, 2026 CIZIRE CANTON Six days of revolutionary defensive warfare. Two neighborhoods, surrounded by Islamist gangs, become targets after a charade of negotiations, and beneath the masks of the so-called soldiers of the new Syria, the true faces emerge, showing Slafist beards and Turkish flags on their clothing. Aleppo, the city already devastated and