
Al-Monitor – Fighting between Syria’s Kurdish forces, pro-Assad militia enters fourth day
Media Coverage, News
Original article published on Al-Monitor 23 April 2021
Fighting escalated between Syria’s Kurdish-led forces and members of a pro-regime militia in the northeastern city of Qamishli on Friday after a local community leader was…

Al-Monitor – Government, Kurdish forces clash in northeast Syria
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The pro-government National Defense Forces fired on Kurdish Asayesh forces at a checkpoint in Qamishli, according to Kurdish sources.
Original article published on Al-Monitor 21 April 2021
Clashes broke out in northeast Syria last…

K24 – Killings in Syria’s al-Hol camp down after SDF security operation
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Original article published on Kurdistan24 by Wladimir van Wilgenburg on 15 April 2021
ERBIL (Kurdistan 24) – The number of targeted killings in the al-Hol displacement camp in northeast Syria have fallen slightly following a sweeping…

Al-Monitor – Northeast Syria imposes ‘total lockdown’ due to virus
Coronavirus Crisis, Media Coverage, News
Original article published by Al Monitor 12 April 2021
A lockdown will begin in northeast Syria on Tuesday as authorities attempt to mitigate the spread of the coronavirus during Ramadan and following a relatively large number of…

AP – US-backed Syrian forces raid camp of IS families, arrest 9
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Original article by Sarah El Deeb and Lolita C. Baldor in AP 28 March 2021
BEIRUT (AP) — Thousands of Kurdish-led forces, with assistance from the U.S.-led coalition, launched a military operation Sunday at a sprawling camp in northeast…

National Interest – Beware the Women of ISIS
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Original article by Emily Przyborowski in National Interest 2 April 2021
The female cadres of ISIS are now poised to expand as a result of a new generation of extremists now being incubated in Syria’s assorted refugees camps.
Less…

El País – In Syria, there is a new kind of war against ISIS
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Operation against jihadists hiding at Al-Hol camp in Syria on Sunday. FOTO: NATALIA SANCHA
Original article by Natalia Sancha for El País 1 April 2021
In the early morning darkness, a militiawoman loosens her braid under her balaclava…

Council On Foreign Relations – Biden-Harris Should Lead on Women’s Rights and Help End Syrian Conflict
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Female YPJ fighters celebrate Newroz with civilian women in Qamishli, Syria in 2016.
Original article by Amy Austin Holmes, published in Council On Foreign Relations 26 March 2021
On the tenth anniversary of the Syrian uprising,…

The New Humanitarian – Leaving Syria’s notorious al-Hol camp, civilians find little to go home to
Media Coverage
Original Article by Sofia Barbarani for The New Humanitarian 14 January 2021
BAGHDAD
Salem Radi was overjoyed when news came through that he and his family would soon be allowed to return home after almost two years in al-Hol, a packed…

K24 – Pro-government troops, local Kurdish forces make counter-arrests amid rising tensions in north Syria
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Original Article by Wladimir van Wilgenburg in K24, 6 January 2021
ERBIL (Kurdistan 24) – Tensions continue to escalate between Syrian pro-government forces and local Internal Security Forces (Asayish) after the Syrian regime arrested…