LATEST FROM Hasakah
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...
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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 ...
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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...
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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 ...
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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...
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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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January 08
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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December 11
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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December 03
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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November 30
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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