Bio
Mohammad Abdulssattar Ibrahim
Originally from Hasakah province, Mohammad relocated to Jordan shortly after the Syrian Kurdish uprising in 2004. After the Syrian revolution began, he became a political activist in Jordan and later worked in providing humanitarian, education and psycho-social support to Syrian refugees there. Mohammad is also a published novelist.
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“The SDF must acknowledge Turkey’s role in the region” says Kurdish political analyst
Abdullah Öcalan, the founder and leader of the Kurdish Workers Party (the PKK) has been in solitary confinement for the last twenty years, sitting in a cell in the Turkish Imrali island prison in the Marmara Sea. His contact with the outside world has been extremely limited. It thus came as a surprise when on the May 2nd, Öcalan was allowed to meet with his legal defense for the first time since 2011.
“Where is there left to go?” Three Clinics are hit in regime strikes in Northwest Syria
Amman- Khadijat Umm Mohammed sits in her small house on the outskirts of Khan Sheikhoun, its foundation intermittently rattled by the force of nearby explosions. She is waiting for an opportunity to go to the dialysis center so she can complete her weekly sessions.
Moscow meeting signals deepening Russian-Turkish cooperation over Idlib, as Syrian government ramps up bombardment
Dawn had just broken over Saraqeb on Sunday, when a constellation of cluster munitions burst over the town and ripped through its local council building. It was the fourth consecutive day of shelling over the northwestern Syrian town, part of a wave of bombardment that also struck more than a dozen cities and villages in rebel-held Idlib province. Homes, government buildings and morning markets were hit, leaving dozens of dead and wounded.
Afrin’s Kurds fear echoes of historic discrimination, as Turkish-backed authorities forbid traditional Nowruz celebrations
The spring equinox celebration of Nowruz is usually marked by Kurdish communities with massive public feasts, ceremonial leaps over beds of flames and theatrical performances in town squares that recount epic tales of ancient mythology.This year, though, as the Aleppo provincial city of Afrin marks one year under Turkish proxy control, a very different scene was on display.
As majority of residents flee north, one man in bombed-out Khan Sheikhoun describes recent onslaught: ‘Life here is like a horror film’
In the few quiet moments, Muayyed Abu Amer’s friends still gather to chat, drink tea and brew coffee late into the night—just like how things were before the war.
Final IS territory reduced to ragged strip of Euphrates river bank as SDF closes in
Backed by warplanes from the US-led anti-IS coalition, the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) advanced on a long-besieged pocket of territory held by fighters from the Islamic State (IS) in Baghouz from Monday night onwards, seizing a threadbare landscape of tents and abandoned vehicles that represents the hardline Islamist group’s last remaining foothold in Syria.
Turkey attempts to salvage Sochi agreement as bombing devastates Idlib
Explosion after explosion rocked the southern Idlib city, where shelling has become an almost daily feature of life.
‘We’ve already died a thousand times,’ says one of last Khan Sheikhoun residents to flee wave of bombing
Khan Sheikhoun is a town of concrete. Poured-cement homes stacked beside one another, cinder-block sheds, shops and cafes.To be indoors during a pro-government airstrike or bombing is to risk finding yourself trapped under layers of toppled concrete, beneath the rubble of what were once walls and roofs.
‘If we don’t show mercy to animals, we can’t be merciful with one another’: Aleppo’s cat rescuer on new memoir
All his life, Alaa Aljaleel dreamed of becoming a rescue worker. His father had served on Aleppo city’s fire brigade for 40 years, and he was determined to continue the tradition.
In last stand at Baghouz, IS uses civilians, car bombs and booby traps to slow on-off SDF offensive
The fight to clear the scattered tents and buildings that demarcate the last vestiges of the Islamic State (IS), and its self-proclaimed “caliphate,” has wound on for weeks in Baghouz—a small village on the banks of the Euphrates River, close to the Syrian-Iraqi border.