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...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
