Jodi Brignola

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Jodi Brignola

Jodi Brignola is a journalism intern and past trainee in Syria Direct’s Media Training Program. Jodi is a Masters candidate in the Security Studies Program at Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service and is in Amman on a Boren Fellowship.

ARTICLES

‘When things happen in the dark, there’s a higher risk that abuses occur’: HRW’s Nadim Houry on post-IS transitional justice

March 25

Seemingly endless lines of Islamic State fighters streamed out of the group's last pocket, Baghouz, last weekend as US-backed fighters from the Syrian Democratic Forces rendered t...

'From the gutter to the rain': Inside HTS' takeover of northwestern Syria

February 25

In a conference hall adorned with the flags of Hay’at Tahrir a-Sham, the Free Syrian Army and National Liberation Front, a banner read overhead, “Hand in hand, we win our revoluti...

Alleged IS suicide attack on Manbij restaurant kills four US soldiers, injures more than a dozen civilians

January 16

AMMAN: An Islamic State fighter detonated a suicide vest beside a restaurant in downtown Manbij, Aleppo province, on Wednesday afternoon, killing at least 15 people—including seve...

‘Uneasy’ peace hangs over Syria’s northwest after airstrikes, alleged chemical attack

November 26

AMMAN: A Russian- and Turkish-brokered demilitarized buffer zone in northwestern Syria that has weathered months of tit-for-tat violence between pro-government forces and rebels c...

For ransom or for rule: Local aid workers describe risks amid wave of kidnappings in Syria’s rebel-held northwest

November 01

Customers buy food on a busy street in the centre of the northwestern Syrian city of Idlib on September 24, 2018. Photo by Omar Haj Kadour/AFP. AMMAN: Saddam al-Muhammad was walk...

‘The head is Turkish, the body Syrian': Expanding Turkish influence in rebel-held north leaves Syrians ambivalent about the future

October 24

Inauguration of a courthouse in a-Rai in September. Photo courtesy of the National Police and General Security Forces in a-Rai. AMMAN: When the governor of Turkey’s Kilis p...

Syrians divided over prospects for local election results, as government ‘consolidates its power’

September 20

Latakia residents vote on Sunday. Photo Courtesy of The Baath Party - Latakia Branch. AMMAN: Turnout was “good” when Syrians in government-held areas made their way t...

Infographic: Idlib, last resort for more than one million displaced Syrians

August 30

East Aleppo residents aboard buses Idlib in December 2016. Photo courtesy of Aleppo Media Center. Scattered across the strategically crucial northwestern province of Idlib, aroun...