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International volunteers play a key role in documenting Turkish offensive

Oct 13,2019

Turkey’s ‘Operation Peace Spring’ further splinters the Syrian opposition

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Discrimination, inefficiency and politics plague medical care in al-Hol camp

Tribal sponsorship system offers hope to thousands of Syrians in al-Hol camp in al-Hasaka

LATEST FROM Hasakah

‘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...

Elections in Kurdish-held northern Syria postponed with no date set

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...

SDF, Iraqi forces ‘coordinating’ border security ahead of IS downfall

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...

Photo Essay: Displaced Deir e-Zor residents head home

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...

Politicians from Iraqi Kurdistan in northern Syria to observe local elections

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...

Kurdish residents in Syria’s north find linguistic freedom after decades of state suppression

November 29

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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