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

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 ...

What’s next for post-Islamic State Syria? A month-long reporting series from Syria Direct

July 29

Raqqa residents line up for bread in January. Photo by Delil Souleiman/AFP. The Islamic State once occupied a vast swathe of territory across Iraq and Syria that was—a...

A ‘children’s tragedy’: Hepatitis, diarrhea infect thousands of children stranded in Rukban amid summer heat

July 16

A Rukban toddler with “moderate” diarrhea symptoms on Monday, according to one nurse in the camp. Photo courtesy of Ruba Homsi. AMMAN: Thousands of children in a remo...

US-backed forces encircle last Islamic State positions along Euphrates River in eastern Syria

May 16

AMMAN: American-backed forces encircled the last Islamic State-held positions along the Euphrates River in eastern Syria this week after capturing a key town near the border with ...

‘Running from memories’ of the Islamic State, parents and children transition to a new life

May 08

AMMAN: An unusual silence filled Muhammad Mahmoud’s home in central Syria during the three years in which he and his family lived under the Islamic State. The former engine...

Deir e-Zor teacher: After Islamic State, ‘enormous effort’ needed to counter extreme ideology

March 19

Dozens of schools reopened in the formerly Islamic State-held eastern countryside of Deir e-Zor over the past month, giving more than 14,000 elementary and middle school students ...

Syrian-Iraqi borderlands key to ‘post-caliphate’ Islamic State, says analyst Hassan Hassan

February 15

An expanse of valleys and sparsely populated open desert lies between Syria and Iraq. There, small cities and towns hug the banks of the Euphrates River, which flows through Syria...

‘Temporary defeats’: Syria analyst Hassan Hassan on the future of the Islamic State in Syria and Iraq

February 14

The Islamic State (IS) lost nearly all of its territory in Syria and Iraq over the past year. “More than 98 percent of the land once claimed by [the Islamic State] has been...

In barren desert displacement camp, residents burn plastic bags, diapers to ward off hypothermia

January 31

AMMAN: Dozens of residents of a remote displacement camp on the Syrian-Jordanian border suffered from hypothermia in recent weeks during the coldest month of the year, camp offici...

The network: A virtual hunt for suspected Islamic State members in Syria

January 24

AMMAN: Aghid al-Khodr wakes up early, before the sun rises. At his home in an undisclosed location in Germany, he begins his work. For the next 15 hours, al-Khodr sits glued to h...

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Deir e-Zor residents trapped between regime and IS

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