The European Union should tighten conditions on funding for the Syrian government and leverage its trade power to protect human rights, a European lawmaker has told Rudaw.

European Parliament Member Abir al-Sahlani called on the EU to take stronger measures to protect Kurds in northeast Syria (Rojava), warning that humanitarian suffering continues under the ongoing siege of Kurdish-majority areas.

The international community needs to do more to push for Kurdish rights and guarantee a ceasefire in Syria, with the European Union and the United States taking the lead, a European member of parliament has told Rudaw.

Dutch-Kurdish filmmaker Philip Rachid has completed shooting his latest work. Jamal is a 15-minute short that blends magical realism with Kurdish history and is inspired by his late father, renowned historian Jamal Ahmad Rachid.

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