Jineolojî is the science of women and life. There are times when life and existence are under acute threat. We are living in such a time – in a time of the Third World War. In such times, it is especially important to name the war crimes and violations that are being committed and make them visible and audible. To raise awareness. Based on this, the Jineolojî Academy in Rojava has compiled a dossier presenting and analysing the war crimes committed in Rojava and North and East Syria in January 2026.
Our assessment, as the Jineolojî Academy in Rojava, is that this wave of attacks, not only aims to achieve military results but also to produce political and social outcomes. Beginning in the Kurdish and Syrian neighbourhoods of Aleppo and extending as far as the Raqqa and Deir ez-Zor lines, these waves of attacks target the shared life of the peoples and the model of Democratic Autonomous Administration in North and East Syria. The purpose of this study is to assess the military attacks carried out by Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), ISIS and the Turkish state, in accordance with international humanitarian law and the criteria for war crimes. Information from the ground, testimonies and regional reports indicate that many of these actors’ actions should not be considered as natural consequences of war, but rather as deliberate and systematic practices targeting civilians. These include the direct targeting of civilian areas, forced displacement, destruction of infrastructure, executions, torture, and siege tactics. Findings that these attacks were not only against military targets, but also targeted specific population groups based on their ethnic, religious and political identities, indicate that these incidents were not random, but part of a specific concept of warfare. The situation suggests that the attacks on the region are not isolated incidents, but rather form part of a planned and multifaceted war concept.
The aim of this study is to present concrete and substantiated examples of war crimes committed by these actors in North and East Syria, offering their dates, locations, and methods used. The aim is to expose these violations, amplify the voices of the victims, and remind the international community of its responsibility for these crimes.
Knowledge and consciousness form the most important foundation on which we build our common struggle for free, democratic and self-administered societies in Kurdistan, Syria, the Middle East and across the whole world.