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In Rojava the general mobilization has been declared and everyone is ready to resist. As internationalists we also call for mobilization in Europe, Abya Yala and all around the world: For all people struggling for freedom to rise up now to defend the revolution in every way we can.
The revolution that rose against the Assad regime, took down the caliphate of ISIS and became a beacon of hope can succeed over the same mentality once again.
The revolutionary strength comes not from any outside force, but its the strength of the united people, of us. We are calling everyone to gather around the self-defense forces.
We are rising up proclaiming “Resistance is Life!”
Take action against the responsibles of this war! Block, Disturb, Occupy!
Long live the revolution of Rojava!
Jin, Jiyan, Azadî!❤️🔥✌️
Huge convoy with vehicles and weapons belonging to the self-proclaimed Islamic Syrian Government (HTS) is storming the city of Raqqa with the help of Islamic State cells. https://kurdiscat.blogspot.com/2026/01/lautoproclamat-govern-siria-obre-un.html
The self-proclaimed interim president of Syria, Al Jolani of Al Qaeda, announces a ceasefire agreement with the SDF… which he signed alone http://kurdiscat.blogspot.com/2026/01/raqqa-antiga-capital-de-lestat-islamic.html.
Before ordering the Blitz on the Autonomous Area (DAA) the US backed dictator Jolani announced his cosmetic recognition if some Kurdish civil rights, while rejecting the entire DAA Constitution, thus condemning all women to jihadi slavery.
Update NES/Rojava 18.01. 18:00 CET
According to latest reports HTS is in control of the city and has proclaimed control over the Tepqa dam as well. A Video of the dropping of a statue of a Women Fighter, a symbol for the Women’s fight against ISIS show the mentality of the Islamist gangs.
After sleeper cells loyal to HTS have been seen in a central place creating turmoil it was reported that HTS entered the city form the south. YPJ snipers have been targeting roaming Jihadists from different positions throughout the city
Clashes with HTS elements and ISIS sleeper cells in the city have been ongoing. The coming hours may decide on the fate of the city. Enemy claims that the city has been conquered are not representing the situation on the ground. SDF and YPJ are active in the city targeting Islamists with ambushes and sniper fire.
Fierce resistance against Turkish backed islamists
Attacks are continuing around the dam. Attempts to take over the strategical positions called Suritell Hill have been foiled by the SDF and YPJ. The attacking forces were targeted with heavy weapons and drones. After a tactical retreat Islamist gangs have taken position in the village of Khirbet al-Zamala close to the Tishrin Dam.
Ceasefire between the SDF and the Jolani-Regime?
According to Ronahî TV some kind of agreement was made between the SDF and the Jolani-Regime in Damascus. Until further statement it remains unclear what conditions were agreed on. Fighting continues in the meantime on all fronts and earlier ceasefires have not led to an end of escalation.
Troops and mercenaries of the self-proclaimed Islamic Syrian Government (HTS) are storming the city of Raqqa with the help of Islamic State cells https://kurdiscat.blogspot.com/2026/01/lautoproclamat-govern-siria-obre-un.html
🔵 An agreement was announced between the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) and the Syrian Interim Government for a comprehensive ceasefire and full integration, following political meetings in Hawler and Damascus under U.S. sponsorship. Officials confirmed that mechanisms for implementation will be discussed later and that dialogue will continue to resolve existing disputes.
Update NES/Rojava 18.01. 22:00 CET
After a “ceasefire agreement” was announced by the Jolani regime and circulated on social media Mazlum Abdî confirmed in a television speech that a temporary ceasefire has been agreed on and that the SDF will pull back from Raqqa and Deir Ez-Zor to the south of Hassakah to prevent further civilian casualties.
Tomorrow (19/01) a high level meeting between the SDF and the Jolani regime will be taking place in which according to Abdî further negotiations will be held.
At the end of his speech he underlined that “The achievements of the Revolution will be defended.”
Meanwhile Jolani’s visit to Berlin, Germany was postponed.
Still during the evening ambushes and sniper fire has been reported from Raqqa and also in the southern Shedadî countryside HTS/SNA/ISIS have been confronted by the SDF and YPG effectively.
Remzi Kartel, Kongra Gel Co-Chair appeared on television earlier today and was showing a clear stance regarding the demands that have been circulating:
“Any arrangement imposed on Rojava that excludes democratic integration and autonomy is unacceptable. The military situation in Rojava will not be the same as in Tabqa or Aleppo.”
KCK in a statement called to stand firm against the ongoing attacks on Rojava and North & East Syria and compared the current situation to the siege of Kobanê: “’The Spirit of Resistance of Kobanê Must Rise!”
by Ahmad Ibsais at https://ahmadibsais.substack.com via thefreeonline at https://wp.me/pIJl9-HQM on Jan 15, 2026.Telegram t.me/thefreeonline/5035
When Mossad went on 60 Minutes and described their work as creating “pretend worlds,” when their official said straight to camera that “we are a global production company,” most Americans probably didn’t think too hard about what gets produced in their own country.
Maybe they should have, because right now we’re all living in what appears to be a very expensive production where American politicians compete to see who can be more servile to a foreign government while their own voters are literally begging them to stop.
Something is breaking on the American right over Israel, and the lazy analysis calls it antisemitism because that’s what the lazy analysis always calls it, the same way “antisemitism” gets deployed every time anyone notices that maybe spending billions on another country’s military while Flint still doesn’t have clean water is a choice someone made.
But this isn’t about antisemitism, it’s about the internal logic of Trumpism finally hitting the one exception it was never supposed to question, and watching that collision in real time is genuinely fascinating if you can get past how depressing it is.
You can’t spend a decade running on “America First”, can’t build an entire political movement on ending forever wars and draining the swamp and putting American interests above everything else, can’t make that the core promise to your base, and then carve out one country that gets unconditional support no matter what it does, no matter how badly it conflicts with American interests, no matter how many children get turned into statistics, and expect that exception to hold forever.
Eventually someone in the room is going to ask why Israel gets to be different, and once that question gets asked out loud the whole edifice starts wobbling because there’s no answer that works within the framework you’ve built.
Tucker Carlson is out here talking about dead Palestinians on his show now, just saying it like it’s a normal thing to discuss rather than a career-ending thought crime.
Marjorie Taylor Greene, who built her entire career being Trump’s most unhinged cheerleader, who seemed constitutionally incapable of disagreeing with him about anything, is calling what’s happening in Gaza a genocide and saying:
She’s using the actual word genocide, which you’re not supposed to say about Israel even when Israel is doing things that look exactly like genocide, and she’s saying it anyway because apparently her read of her own base is that they’re more angry about funding this than they are scared of AIPAC.
Steve Bannon is questioning the relationship. These aren’t college professors or DSA members or people you can dismiss as the usual suspects who were always soft on terrorism or whatever this week’s talking point is.
These are people who define what the MAGA base thinks, what they’re willing to say out loud, what they’re willing to die on hills over, and they’re all suddenly questioning the one thing you weren’t supposed to question. The nationalist movement that promised to put America first is finally asking why there’s a country that comes before America in America First, and it turns out that question doesn’t have a good answer.
The polling backs this up in ways that should terrify anyone whose career depends on the old consensus holding.
Half of Republicans under fifty now have an unfavorable view of Israel. Half. That’s a fifteen-point jump in just three years, from 2022 to 2025, which is roughly the same speed at which Republican support for the Iraq War collapsed once everyone figured out we’d been lied into it by many of the same people now demanding unconditional support for Israel.
For a political movement that spent decades treating support for Israel as non-negotiable as opposing abortion or hating taxes, this is the kind of earthquake that reshapes everything.
Americans are seeing the bombs drop and the buildings collapse and the children die, all of it funded by American weapons and American money and defended by American politicians who keep saying Israel “has a right to defend itself” as if that phrase still means anything after this many dead civilians.
They’re watching Biden and then Trump compete to show who can debase themselves more thoroughly for Netanyahu, who can roll out a redder carpet, who can offer more unconditional support, while poll after poll shows American voters want it to stop.
The gap between what people are seeing with their own eyes and what their government is doing in their name has become impossible to ignore, and once you can’t ignore it anymore you start asking uncomfortable questions about why.
But here’s the thing, Gaza didn’t create this fracture, it just made it visible. The contradiction was always there baked into the logic of Trumpism, sitting there waiting for the right catalyst to expose it. You can’t promise to end foreign wars and then support this one.
You can’t promise to drain the swamp and then take money from AIPAC. You can’t promise America First and then put Israel first. Eventually the math stops mathing and people notice.
They’re everything the populist right claims to hate about politics: foreign influence, billionaire control, establishment crushing outsiders, unaccountable power, the swamp in its purest form. And they’re not even subtle about it anymore, they’re just openly buying elections and bragging about it.
Continue reading ““I don’t want to pay for genocide in a foreign country … for a war that I had nothing to do with.””Besieged In Hospital, Kurds Fight To Death As Jihadi State Regime massacres Kurdish district- Drones Hit back at regime Army HQs –
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“…they have to cross over our dead bodies…” 📹 The footage shows a Kurdish fighter saying that the Kurdish forces remain in Aleppo’s Sheikh Maqsud
The forces of Syria’s Islamist-led ‘Interim’ Jihadi terrorist Regime took control of Ashrafieh and much of neighboring Sheikh Maqsoud by January 11, besieging Kurdish fighters affiliated with the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) in Khaled Fajr Hospital and nearby areas in the latter neighborhood in the northern Syrian city of Aleppo-
Turkey declared support for killing these “Kurdish Terrorists” in Aleppo
Jihadi Regime forces advanced in the two Kurdish neighborhoods rapidly overnight, forcing Kurdish fighters to retreat to the hospital, which was struck more than once since the start of the battle, killing patients and staff.
Amid the clashes in Sheikh Maqsoud, multiple fixed-wing suicide drones attacked Aleppo city, with one hitting the governro’s building and another hitting the military intelligence headquarters.
Tens of thousands of Kurds are trying to cross Syria to stand as human shields against the Jihadi regime massacre in their district in Aleppo
State media said that the drones were launched from the town of Deir Hafer in the eastern Aleppo countryside by the SDF, but the group denied any involvement. SANA said that four people were wounded.
Read more HERE (https://southfront.press/besieged-in-hospital-kurds-fight-to-death-as-their-drones-hit-syrian-army-hqs-in-aleppo-videos/)
🔵Clashes continued in Aleppo’s Sheikh Maqsoud neighborhood, where the Internal Security Forces responded to attacks by militants of the so-called “Interim Government”.🌐More (https://hawarnews.com/en/violent-clashes-in-aleppos-sheikh-maqsoud-neighborhood-heavy-losses-among-mercenaries)
The attackers on the civilian Kurdish neighbourhoods are led by the extreme jihadi and Al Qaeda factions backed, trained, paid and equipped by occupying Turkey, with apparent US (and Israeli) permission.. The confrontations yesterday however resulted in heavy losses among the mercenaries.
As with the ongoing Gaza genocide Donald Trump can stop the massacre with JUST ONE PHONE CALL, as the Syrian ‘government’ is completely depenjdant on the present US cancellation of the crippling Caesar Sanctions, etc.
By abandoning its long standing allies, the anti-ISIS, Kurdish led, and anti-capitalist Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), the US cynically nods an OKAY to the extermination of large minority and religious communities, as well as total abnegation of women`s freedom.
Trump and his BFF Netanyahu made an agreement to give Israel contriol over southern Syria and allow the Aleppo massacre of autonomy seeking Kurds, Next day the Jolani ex Al Qaeda reginme began the massive onslaught on the Kurdish districts in Aleppo city.
Instead Trump (and the ‘West’) backs a terrorist ex Al Qaeda led Sunni state, controlled militarily between Israel and Turkey, and wide open to corruption, neo liberal exploitation, money laundering, and capitaliust looting, following the Ukrainian and Israeli playbook.
see also yesterday’s post: 100,000 Kurds flee- Syrian Govt tanks repulsed in Kurdish areas -Aleppo 3rd day – The Free↗thefreeonline.com/2026/0
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Clashes raged between the forces of Syria’s Islamist-led Interim Government and fighters affiliated with the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) in the Kurdish neighborhoods of Sheikh Maqsoud and Ashrafieh in Aleppo on January 9, with reports indicating that the death toll from the battle in the northern Syrian city has risen 50.
The hospital this morning. video still
The early morning saw a temporary ceasefire declared between 3 a.m. and 9 a.m. with the government, which also sent buses to the entrance of Sheikh Maqsoud and Ashrafieh claiming that an agreement was reached with the SDF to withdraw Kurdish fighters from there.
However, the stunt failed, with the general council of the two neighborhoods later issuing a statement rejecting calls to surrender.
Read more HERE (https://southfront.press/50-killed-in-aleppo-battle-as-kurds-vow-to-defend-their-neighborhoods-from-syrian-army-videos/)
Residents of NE, Syria: we will not retreat from supporting our resistance
The Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) on January 10 accused Turkey of joining the ongoing attacks on its forces by the Islamist-led Interim Government, as its last fighters withdrew from the Sheikh Maqsoud neighborhood in the northern Syrian city of Aleppo.
In a statement, the Kurdish-led group said that a Turkish Bayraktar Akıncı combat drone bombed one of its positions near al-Thawra oil field to the south of the city of Tabqah in the southern Raqqa countryside.
The SDF also accused government forces of arresting dozens of men who left Sheikh Maqsoud neighborhood after separating them from their families.
In a revealing video, government fighters are seen throwing a female Kurdi desh fighter from the balcony of a damaged building in Sheikh Maqsoud.
Read more HERE (https://southfront.press/syrian-government-forces-capture-dozens-of-kurds-throw-fighter-off-building-in-aleppo-videos/)
🔵 Provisional Government mercenaries in Syria carried out a brutal massacre in the city of Deir Hafer, killing three children and an elderly man.
🌐More (https://hawarnews.com/en/deir-hafer-attack-kills-3-children-and-elderly-man)
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🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬Another statement released shortly after by the SDF said, “Our fighters managed to destroy three tanks belonging to the Damascus government militias while they were shelling Khaled Al-Fajr Hospital in the western part of the Sheikh Maqsoud neighborhood.”
It further added that attacks are still ongoing with “intense tank shelling and direct targeting by Turkish Bayraktar drones, which keep striking the hospital crowded with wounded civilians, in a dangerous escalation that threatens the lives of civilians and medical personnel.”
see also yesterday’s post: 100,000 Kurds flee- Syrian Govt tanks repulsed in Kurdish areas -Aleppo 3rd day – The Free↗thefreeonline.com/2026/0
Attacks escalate in the nth Syrian Aleppo by the Islamist-led Interim Govt factions and fighters affiliated with Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF). Damascus reportedly to go to war against the Kurdish-led autonomy..
by southfront.press, hawarnews, thefreeonline, https://wp.me/pIJl9-HP3 on 8 Jan 2026
Civilians carry their bags and belongings as they flee clashes between the Syrian army and the SDF in Aleppo, Syria, on January 8, 2026
🔵The Kurdistan Women’s Union (KJK)affirmed that the attacks on the residents of Sheikh Maqsoud, Ashrafieh, and Bani Zaid in Aleppo are an extension of the attacks carried out against Alawites and Druze, and that they represent an assault on the Kurdish people in particular. They called on all peoples to declare general mobilization against these genocidal attacks t.me/enhawarnews✅
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photo via Bloomberg Moscow slams Western silence over New Year’s Eve massacre of civilians
Three unmanned aerial vehicles then hit the crowded venue, triggering a massive fire that burned the party goers alive, ripping through the premises. One of the drones reportedly carried an incendiary mixture.
The drone attack in the largely ethnic Russian Kherson Region has left scores of others seriously wounded, Vladimir Saldo has said..
READ MORE: GRAPHIC PHOTOS show aftermath of Ukrainian attack on Russian New Year’s party © Press service of Kherson Region
At least 24 people were killed and more than 50 injured in a Ukrainian drone strike on a café and a hotel during New Year’s Eve celebrations in the Black Sea coastal village of Khorly, the governor of Russia’s Kherson Region has said.
Graphic photos from the scene showed total destruction and the subsequent fire, with heavily burnt bodies scattered throughout the rubble.
The attack took place shortly before midnight after a reconnaissance drone surveyed the area, Kherson Region Governor Vladimir Saldo said in a post on Telegram on Thursday.
Kherson Region Governor Vladimir Saldo (right) has been sentenced to 15 years jail by Ukraine for treason, in absentia.
A child was among those killed, Saldo said. The medics are currently fighting for the lives of the wounded, he added.
The governor said that the attack can only be compared to the May 2014 Odessa massacre. At the time, Ukrainian ultra-nationalists who had supported the then-recent Western-backed coup in Kiev chased 42 anti-government protesters into the city’s Trade Unions House before setting the building on fire and burning all of them alive.
A view of a Vampire drone used by Ukraine’s 59th Brigade during tests
“This is what the ‘peace’ that Zelensky claims to strive for looks like,” he wrote.
Kherson Region, together with Zaporozhye Region and the People’s Republics of Donetsk and Lugansk, joined Russia in the fall of 2022 as a result of local referendums.
Ukrainian drones target Moscow during Putin’s New Year address – mayor
Moscow Mayor Sergey Sobyanin said earlier that at least nine Ukrainian drones targeting the Russian capital had been shot down overnight. The mayor reported the first interception at 11:55pm local time just as Russian President Vladimir Putin’s traditional New Year’s address began.
The latest drone raids follow a failed attack by 91 Ukraine drones on Putin’s residence in Novgorod Region on December 28-29, which Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has condemned as an act of “state terrorism.”
The Kremlin noted that the raid was aimed not only against the Russian leader, but also “against [US] President [Donald] Trump’s efforts to facilitate a peaceful resolution of the Ukraine conflict.”
“Khorly: a quiet, family-friendly resort known for its shallow, warm sea, sandy beaches, and therapeutic muds. The location is relatively unknown to many tourists which is why there is no big influx and contributes to a tranquil vacation…”
Five-year-old boy killed in Ukrainian drone attack –
The incident comes in the aftermath of a deadly attack on a cafe in Kherson Region that left two dozen dead, Vladimir Saldo has said
FILE PHOTO. © Sputnik / Yevgeny Sukhorukov
A five-year-old boy has been killed in a Ukrainian drone strike on his family’s car in Russia’s Kherson Region, Governor Vladimir Saldo has said…..
The boy, his mother and her parents were traveling in their car when it was hit by a kamikaze UAV outside the village of Tarasovka, Saldo relayed. The child was killed on the spot, while the adults sustained multiple shrapnel wounds, the governor stated.
“The Kiev bastards have committed yet another bloody crime,” Saldo wrote on his Telegram channel.
The incident comes less than a day after the New Year’s Eve attack on a crowded café and hotel in the Black Sea coastal village of Khorly in the south of the region. The strike caused a major fire which left at least 24 people dead and over 50 others wounded. It involved several kamikaze drones, one of which carried incendiary weaponry…..
The region has become a prime target for indiscriminate Ukrainian attacks. Kiev’s forces have been routinely targeting civilian sites with artillery and missile fire, as well as launching kamikaze drone strikes, hunting down civilian vehicles and first responders.
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RT recaps Kiev’s deadliest attacks on Russian civilians
‘A monstrous crime’: Russia condemns deadly Ukrainian New Year’s Eve drone strike
Five-year-old boy killed in Ukrainian drone attack –
Swarm of Ukrainian kamikaze drones intercepted near Moscow – officials
The UK’s crackdown on protests against the Gaza genocide is the worst example of the authoritarian trend evident in Western Europe
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A Palestine Action activist is arrested by police officers in Manchester, UK
The UK is witnessing the largest and most significant prison hunger strike since 1981. Since the beginning of November, a total of eight activists in pretrial detention for standing up against the Gaza Genocide, have been protesting against Israel’s continuing mass murder, Britain’s complicity, and their own abusive and petty treatment by, as it happens, the same infamous legal and incarceration system that used to torture Julian Assange on behalf of the US.
The hunger strikers’ demands also include releasing documents showing how Britain’s extremely powerful Israel Lobby has been influencing the government and an end to the absurd proscription of the activists’ own Palestine Action organization as ‘terrorist.’
The charges against the activists refer to two cases: the break-in at a British branch of Israeli arms manufacturer Elbit Systems and infiltration of a Royal Air Force base to damage two planes with red paint and crowbars. Elbit is one of the many Israeli and multinational companies that are deeply involved in Israel’s genocide in Gaza and its ceaseless other crimes elsewhere, as UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese has shown in her recent report “From economy of occupation to economy of genocide.”
Britain’s Royal Air Force has besmirched itself by flying reconnaissance missions over Gaza, supporting Israel and its genocide there. Official denials, insisting that these operations have exclusively served the rescuing of hostages, are “preposterous,” as Matt Kennard who has been tracking and analyzing the flights systematically has concluded. In addition, since the flights are embedded in Israeli intelligence gathering, which is notorious for routinely relying on torture, the flights also make the UK an accomplice to that specific crime.
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The Syrian Ministry of Defense unilaterally prepared an integration proposal document on December 7th, without specifying the recipient. The document was delivered to officials of the Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria (AANES) a week prior through intermediaries.
The AANES has not yet issued any official response or comment regarding the document’s content or how to proceed with it.
The document bears the signature of the Syrian Ministry of Defense, but it does not specify the recipient, nor does it indicate whether it is addressed to a particular institution, entity, or individual. It appears the Ministry assumed that naming the entity might be interpreted as acknowledging it as an equal party.
According to comments and analyses from research institutions and organizations concerned with Syrian affairs, this is not the first time such documents or proposals have been presented without clear official direction.
Thousands of Jazira residents demand leader Ocalan’s fr…
In this context, we emphasize that the document was not addressed directly to the Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria (AANES) or the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), making its characterization as “addressed to the AANES” inaccurate.
The document comprises six main sections and two supplementary sections. Seven of which outline steps that the AANES is supposed to take, while the final section is intended to address the duties of the Transitional Government.
The document cites sources without naming any specific entities, which raises numerous questions and points for discussion.
Similar to some media reports and statements by public figures, this article also lacks explicit source citations, making it impossible to conduct a detailed, item-by-item evaluation of the document, given its general description.
Students protest against Transitional Govt.’s sieg…
The document bears the signature of the Syrian Ministry of Defense, which might initially suggest that it pertains exclusively to the SDF. However, available information indicates that its content extends beyond this scope.
The issue of the SDF has been assessed, but the nature and mechanisms of this assessment remain unclear, according to what the forces have explained so far. The document states that the integration process will take place through the formation of three military divisions geographically distributed in Hasaka, Deir ez-Zor, and Raqqa.
According to reports, the appointment and promotion system for the Syrian Democratic Forces will be managed by Hayet Tahrir al-Sham, referred to in the document as the “Ministry of Defense.”
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