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• Salih Muslim talks about the agreement with the Syrian state 

  “At this point, not Syrian troops but we will fight against the Turkish attacks while the Syrian troops will represent the Syrian state and sovereignty with their presence along the border,” said PYD’s Muslim.
• Serêkaniye fighters: This war is about 'Kurdish existence' 

  The fighters resisting in the city of Serêkaniye against the invasion attacks of the Turkish state, said that this war is about 'existing' and called on all Kurdish people to join the resistance.
• News from Serêkaniyê Front 

  SDF fighters, who repelled the attacks carried out by the invading Turkish state and its mercenaries in Serêkaniyê, continue to increase their resistance on day 5.
• Family of YPG Italian martyr: Act now to save the Kurds 

  The parents and sister of Lorenzo Tekoser Orsetti, the Italian YPG fighter who lost his life on 18 March 2019 fighting ISIS in Baghouz, wrote a poignant appeal to the Italian people: Act now, don't let Lorenzo and thousands of Kurds die again!
• International Call: Rise Up, Defend Rojava! 

  International campaign #RiseUp4Rojava calls for a worldwide mass mobilization and actions against a Turkish invasion in Northeast Syria.
• PKK: Every house and street will be a battlefield 

  PKK said: "A fight for survival has begun between the most tyrant and most righteous forces in history. “We cannot abstain from this. To us, it is the only way to exist and live freely as a people. Only resistance will lead to victory.”
• Turkey and ISIS attack, peoples resist, the West remains silent 

  As the Turkish state continues with its preparations for invasion at Serekaniye border, ISIS gangs have launched a large scale attack in Raqqa in coordination with the Turkish state. The West keeps silent and the peoples of North-East Syria rise up agains
• 9 October 1998: The international conspiracy against Öcalan began 

  Mr. Öcalan repeatedly made clear that he was prepared to stand trial before such an international court himself under the sole condition that Turkey be tried, too. But his hopes and demands were not met.
• After attacking the US consulate in Libya they fled to Turkey 

  Sakarya took part in the attack (on 12 September 2012) against the US Ambassador Chris Stevens  in Bengasi, in Libya.
• KCK: All humanity has a responsibility for northern Syria 

  KCK called upon everyone to join the historic resistance and to build the Democratic Civilization era in Turkey, Kurdistan and the Middle East.
• Xerîb Hiso: Erdoğan has taken the decision to go to war 

  Turkish President Tayyip Erdoğan threatened an attack against Northern Eastern Syria. "An attack maybe launched today, maybe tomorrow", he said while in parallel military shipments and concentration on the border line continue.
• Dutch ISIS member: The attack on the Kurds was our end 

  "I still have not understood why ISIS fought the Kurds. There was no force other than the Kurds that could have defeated us," tells Dutch jihadist Yago Alexandre Riedijk in SDF captivity.
• Notes from Rojava 

  "A photo frame hanging on the wall of every house you enter in this land tells you the story of anonymous heroes and how this war was actually won…"
• Abdi: Erdoğan’s concern is not about security but about invasion 

  The General Commander of the SDF spoke about the threats made by the Turkish regime leader Erdoğan against North and East Syria.
• “Turkish army in alliance with ISIS” 

  Muhammed Toqan spoke of the dirty alliance of the Turkish state with ISIS and FSA gangs, and said that there were quite a number of ISIS members in Turkey.
• Murders of Brazil indigenous and invasion of their lands increase 

  According to a recent report, made by the CIMI (Missionary Indigenous Council) linked to the Catholic Church, the murder of indigenous people in Brazil has grown from 110 in 2017, to 135 during 2018.
• Murdered lawyer Pat Finucane remembered in Belfast 

  Sinn Féin Louth TD Gerry Adams spoke in Belfast at the launch of his publication: Pat Finucane; A Community Reflects. 
• Working at 75 to preserve tin making from disappearing 

  Muhammet Nezir, 75, has been a tin maker since his childhood. He said he would do this job until the end of his life so that tinnery would not disappear.
• Internationalist Commune presents Dêrik cultural and art center 

  "We can expand our understanding of this work, which is not only to defend art and culture, but also to fight back against the cultural genocide that imperialist forces are imposing on local cultures."
• Concert for Hasankeyf as new images from Ilisu Dam are released 

  While new images from the Ilisu Dam site which shows the growing dam reservoir, a cultural event for Hasankeyf and the Tigris River will take place in Istanbul on Saturday.
• Ayotzinapa, the bleeding wound of Mexico 

  Mexican officials have begun searching new sites for the remains of 43 student teachers,  including a dump near where they disappeared on the night between 26 and 27 September, five years ago.
• IMF suspends agreed delivery of US $ 5.4 billion to Argentina 

  The interim President of the IMF, David Lipton, declared that Argentina "would have to wait a while before resuming a financial relationship" with his agency.
• ISIS prisoner from Palestine: We were treated in Istanbul 

  SDF-detained Palestinian ISIS jihadist Muhammed Balusha claims that he was accommodated in an Istanbul ISIS house in 2016 and 2017 and, like other members of the terrorist militia, received medical treatment in a private hospital.
• The Butcher of Raqqa is awaiting trial 

  The SDF hold Anouar Haddouchi, a Belgian citizen member of ISIS, known for funding the Brussels and Paris massacres and known by the nickname 'The Butcher of Raqqa ’. Haddouchi wants to be tried in Belgium.
• YPG member and filmmaker Mehmet Aksoy remembered in London 

  Today the Kurdish community and Mehmet's many friends will remember him by paying a visit to his grave in Highgate Cemetery between 1 and 3 pm.