Hasakah

Turkish safe zone in Syria waits for US approval as tensions escalate

Jul 25,2019

Explosion hits Kurdish police headquarters in Qamishli

Fires, reduced prices disappoint northern Syria’s hopes for record harvest

“The SDF must acknowledge Turkey’s role in the region” says Kurdish political analyst

‘Unlike any other camp’: A journey through al-Hol, holding center for thousands of IS families

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With tents swept away by torrential rains, northern Syria’s displaced seek shelter in mosques, olive groves

April 02

Three rescuers in long blue raincoats cling tight to a rope as a brown-tinted current threatens to sweep them off their path.

Suspected IS sleeper cells step up assassinations, attacks in eastern Syria after SDF ‘victory’ in Baghouz

March 27

Islamic State sleeper cells are assassinating local officials and laying roadside bombs across eastern Syria, where the militant group is exploiting a fragile security situation ...

Souriyeh / سوريّة: Women’s voices from Syria

February 21

For around five years, Judi Arash lived under siege in a bombed-out, encircled rebel-held area of northern Homs that, at one point, was restricted to just three square kilometers....

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

December 20

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 dec...

‘Shadow of a human’: Syria’s stateless Kurds navigate shifting authorities decades after losing citizenship

October 18

A market in the Hasakah city of Amouda in September. Photo courtesy of ARTA FM. AMMAN: It took 31 years before Syrian-Kurdish lawyer Bassa Othman was finally given the right...

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

October 10

Syria’s majority-Kurdish Hasakah province is, for the most part, quiet—tucked into a northeastern corner of the country far from the front lines. But there are signs ...

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

August 01

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...

US-backed opposition authorities in northern Syria push for ‘de-centralization’ agreement with Damascus: SDF

July 30

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 ...

Cyber attacks and surveillance in Assad’s Syria: ‘They can do whatever they want, they own the infrastructure’

July 26

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...

Grain shortages and financial ruin plague Hasakah farmers as crops fail after devastating drought

July 10

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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