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US allies in Syria left stunned by shock announcement of military withdrawal

Dec. 20, 2018
US forces near Manbij in 2017. Delil Souleiman/AFP. AMMAN: US-backed factions and displaced Syrians in eastern Syria expressed “surprise” on Thursday over a shock decision announced by US President Donald Trump to withdraw American forces from the country in one month’s time, leaving the future of eastern Syria hanging in an uncertain balance. President Trump announced the tot...
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‘Shadow of a human’: Syria’s stateless Kurds navigate shifting authorities decades after losing citizenship

Oct. 18, 2018

‘Religious freedoms, political restrictions’: Amid dispute over local education policy, Assyrian writer reflects on minority rights in Syria’s northeast

Oct. 10, 2018

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Women, children face legal limbos and statelessness following collapse of Islamic State ‘caliphate’

Aug. 1, 2018
Children in the Ain al-Issa camp in December 2017. Photo by Delil Souleiman/AFP. When the US-led international coalition launched its campaign against the Islamic State (IS) in 2...
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US-backed opposition authorities in northern Syria push for ‘de-centralization’ agreement with Damascus: SDF

Jul. 30, 2018
Members of the SDC meet in Tabqa on July 16. Photo by Delil Souleiman/AFP. AMMAN: US-backed, majority-Kurdish authorities in the de facto autonomous region of northeastern Syria ...
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Cyber attacks and surveillance in Assad’s Syria: ‘They can do whatever they want, they own the infrastructure’

Jul. 26, 2018
Dlshad Othman speaks at the UN in 2012. Photo courtesy of Eric Bridiers/Creative Commons. Cybersecurity expert Dlshad Othman remembers a joke among Syrian activists after un...
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Grain shortages and financial ruin plague Hasakah farmers as crops fail after devastating drought

Jul. 10, 2018
AMMAN: For 40 days after sowing their crops last autumn, farmers in Syria’s rural, northeastern Hasakah province gazed towards the heavens for a sign from above. But the wi...
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Elections in Kurdish-held northern Syria postponed with no date set

Jan. 8, 2018
The third and final round of elections to choose political leaders in Syria’s majority-Kurdish north were slated for later this month. But now, one official says, the race i...
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SDF, Iraqi forces ‘coordinating’ border security ahead of IS downfall

Dec. 11, 2017
AMMAN: United States-backed Iraqi and Kurdish-led Syrian forces are “coordinating” security against remaining Islamic State (IS) contingents along Syria’s northe...
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Photo Essay: Displaced Deir e-Zor residents head home

Dec. 3, 2017
Umm Muhammad sits hunched over in a blue plastic chair, holding one of her ten children on her lap. Tucked beneath her seat, a single purse holds everything she owns. Her other ch...
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Politicians from Iraqi Kurdistan in northern Syria to observe local elections

Nov. 30, 2017
AMMAN: A delegation from Iraqi Kurdistan arrived in northern Syria’s Kurdish-led territories this week to observe local elections slated for Friday, in what may signal warmi...
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Kurdish residents in Syria’s north find linguistic freedom after decades of state suppression

Nov. 29, 2017
AMMAN: It still feels like a dream for Younis Hami every time he stands before an audience and recites his poetry in his native Kurmanji, a dialect of the Kurdish language. It is...
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Displaced people from Raqqa, Deir e-Zor strain limited resources in northern camps

Nov. 28, 2017
AMMAN: Standing near the patch of ground where she and her eight children sleep at an overcrowded displacement camp in northeastern Syria, her face framed by a black hijab, Hediya...
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