Deir e-Zor

The Autonomous Administration launches new reforms to placate tribal elements

Nov 29,2020

Can the Autonomous Administration solve its tribal problem in northeast Syria?

SDF continues to recruit child soldiers, despite pledges to stop the practice

Damascus struggles to secure wheat supply amidst coronavirus crisis

US and Russian competition risks the possibility of confrontation in northeast Syria

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The rivaling philosophies of Barzani and Ocalan weigh over Syria's Kurds (Timeline)

February 03

On January 16, after years of disagreement between Kurdish representatives of the National Kurdish Council (KNC) and the Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria (AA), re...

New resolution restricts cross-border assistance to Syria

January 21

The already disastrous humanitarian conditions of millions across Syria are set to deteriorate further after Russia and China blocked the renewal of the UN Security Council mechan...

“Euphrates oil” breaks US sanctions on Damascus

August 26

AMMAN— Since last April, the Russian-backed-Syrian government forces and allied militia have launched a military offensive against the last opposition strongholds in northwest Syr...

Protests in Deir e-Zor reveal divisions between locals of the Eastern Euphrates and the Autonomous Administration

May 16

Amman- In the aftermath of an SDF and Coalition raid on the home of a suspected IS member in eastern Deir e-Zor, members of the ‘Ugaydat tribe gathered to deliver a concerted mess...

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 ...

‘When things happen in the dark, there’s a higher risk that abuses occur’: HRW’s Nadim Houry on post-IS transitional justice

March 25

Seemingly endless lines of Islamic State fighters streamed out of the group's last pocket, Baghouz, last weekend as US-backed fighters from the Syrian Democratic Forces rendered t...

Final IS territory reduced to ragged strip of Euphrates river bank as SDF closes in

March 19

Backed by warplanes from the US-led anti-IS coalition, the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) advanced on a long-besieged pocket of territory held by fighters from the Islamic State (...

In last stand at Baghouz, IS uses civilians, car bombs and booby traps to slow on-off SDF offensive

March 05

The fight to clear the scattered tents and buildings that demarcate the last vestiges of the Islamic State (IS), and its self-proclaimed “caliphate,” has wound on for weeks in Bag...

As IS defeat in Deir e-Zor nears, concern turns to tribal tensions, sleeper cells

February 14

Men thought to be IS fighters leave Baghouz Fawqani with their families on Wednesday. Photo by Fadel Senna/AFP. AMMAN: The murky outline of one corpse, maybe more, lies in the mi...

As ‘last man standing’ battle for final Islamic State enclave in Syria nears its end, what comes next?

January 29

Syrians who fled battles in eastern Deir e-Zor arrive at SDF territory on January 26, 2019. Delil Souleiman/AFP. AMMAN: Once a smattering of dusty farming villages along a r...

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