
Update December 4: Northern Syria Offensive
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- As displaced families continue to pour in to NES, the DAANES estimates that numbers of IDPs will soon reach 120,000.
- Critical shortages of essential supplies, food, water, medicines and accommodation for IDPs.
- SNA commits…

Kurdish civilians flee as Turkish forces bomb Syria for third day
Media Coverage, News
Original article by Michael Safi in Amman and Julian Borger in Washington
Airstrikes and shells hit north-east as Trump raises possibility of sanctions on Ankara
Syrian-Arab and Kurdish civilians arrive in Hassakah city after fleeing…

Turkey-backed forces seize control of Syrian border town as offensive continues
Media Coverage
Original Article by Nabih Bulos, Oct. 12, 2019, AMMAN - Jordan
Turkish-backed Syrian rebels and Turkish soldiers watch as smoke billows from the border town of Ras al-Ayn, Syria, on Saturday.(Nazeer Al-Khatib / AFP/Getty Images)
Turkish-backed…

Islamic State rears its head, adding to chaos as Turkey battles Kurds
Media Coverage
Original article by The Sangai Express, October 12, 2019
Ceylanpinar, Oct 12
The Turkish invasion of Kurdish-held territory in northern Syria raised new fears of a resurgence of the Islamic State on Friday, as five militants escaped from…

Turkey Syria offensive: ‘The Kurds have no friends but the mountains’
Media Coverage
Original article by BBC, 10 October 2019
Activists say tens of thousands of people have fled towns along the Syria-Turkey border
"It's like hell. I am afraid for all my family and everyone I know."
Sevinaz
is from a town near Syria's…

Turkey begins offensive on Kurdish-held Syrian territory
Media Coverage, News
Original article by MEE and agencies, 9 October 2019
Assault on northeastern region begins despite Trump's insistence that Washington has not abandoned the Kurds
Smoke billows following Turkish bombardment in the northeastern town of…
