Deir e-Zor

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

Mar 27,2019

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

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

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

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

LATEST FROM Deir e-Zor

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...

Civilians, monitors accuse US-led coalition of ‘disregard’ for civilian life as anti-IS Hajin campaign drags into third month

November 21

Smoke rises over Hajin during clashes. Photo courtesy of Syrian Democratic Forces. AMMAN: US-led coalition airstrikes in eastern Deir e-Zor province are placing thousands o...

SDF vows ‘definitive end’ to anti-IS offensive in Deir e-Zor after major setback

October 29

SDF fighters clash with IS near Hajin earlier this year. Photo courtesy of SDF Press. AMMAN: Syrian Democratic Forces commanders have vowed to retake ground lost to Islamic ...

US-backed SDF seizes key town in ongoing battle for Islamic State’s final foothold in Syria

October 23

SDF forces in an unnamed location in Syria. Photo courtesy of Syrian Democratic Forces. AMMAN: Fighters from the US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces seized a strategic town ...

US-backed SDF battles to capture final IS stronghold in eastern Syria

September 12

A US helicopter above SDF territory in eastern Syria on Tuesday. Delil Souleman/AFP. AMMAN: US-backed Kurdish-majority forces assaulted Islamic State positions along the ban...

What’s next for the millions of internally displaced Syrians? A month-long reporting series from Syria Direct

August 28

Rebel fighters and their families arrive in rural northern Aleppo in April. Nazeer al-Khatib/AFP. After seven years of war, one image in particular has become a potent symb...

Justice and accountability after the Islamic State: ‘Few options’ for victims of IS war crimes

August 23

A Syrian man rides a motorbike in Raqqa in February. Photo by Delil Souleiman/AFP. Public executions, brutal extrajudicial murders and other atrocities were the norm in are...

With the Islamic State almost entirely pushed out of Deir e-Zor, how can eastern Syria’s tribes pick up the pieces?

August 22

SDF commanders meet with Deir e-Zor tribal leaders on August 15. Photo courtesy of SDF Media. In the deserts of eastern Syria’s Deir e-Zor province, the Islamic State...

‘Blood for blood’: Murder, retribution killings mire Syria’s eastern desert as tribes avenge Islamic State-era abuses

August 22

Deir e-Zor tribal leaders meet with the SDF in August. Photo courtesy of SDF media. AMMAN: Marwan was out buying vegetables for his grocery shop in his eastern Deir e-Zor hometow...

‘It’s like you have red flags all over you’: In rebel-held north, Syrians displaced by the Islamic State face discrimination, social stigma

August 19

A displacement camp near northern Aleppo’s Azaz in April. Sameer Al-Doumy/AFP. AMMAN: Rudaina dreads checkpoints. Since fleeing her home in formerly Islamic State-held east...

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