Original article by Hagop Artim Kashejian, Novara Media. My family experienced enormous hardship during the Armenian genocide of 1915. My grandfather’s brothers, his sisters, his mother and father were all slaughtered openly, in their village near to Amed (Diyarbakir) in eastern Turkey. He was about 7 years old at the time. Because of the genocide […]
Original article by Paul Iddon, Global Comment, US. On March 23, the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) declared victory over the Islamic State (ISIS) group’s self-styled caliphate, after capturing its last sliver of territory, the eastern Syrian town of Baghouz. While these Kurdish-led forces successfully combated and rolled back the threat of the marauding caliphate, […]
Original article by Anita Starosta, Medico Internacional, Germany. Der IS scheint besiegt, der Westen freut sich. Doch mit den Flüchtlingen lässt er die Region abermals alleine. Ende März 2019 haben die kurdisch dominierten Kräfte mit Baghouz die letzte IS-Bastion im Osten Syriens eingenommen. Schon in den Wochen zuvor sind Zehntausende Menschen vor den Kämpfen in […]
Original article by James Hockaday, Metro News A jihadi bride dubbed ‘the ISIS Matchmaker’ was told her two children would be killed if she tried to flee the terrorist group, her family have said. Tooba Gondal, who called Britain ‘filthy’ and posed for a picture with an assault rifle shortly after reaching Syria, got her […]
Original article by Robert Verkaik, the Independent, 3 April 2019 The destruction of Isis as many problems as it has solved – none more so than the plight of dozens of British women who travelled to Syria and Iraq on the promise of marriage and a new life in the caliphate. The latest is the case of Tooba Gondal, 25, a […]
Original article by Emer Scully For Mailonline, Daily Mail. A GUN-toting jihadi known as ‘the ISIS matchmaker’ has been found in a refugee camp in northern Syria, it was reported last night. Tooba Gondal, now 25, left her home in Britain and went to live in the group’s de facto capital of Raqqa. The former […]
“Daesh matchmaker” dreams of a second chance – L’essentiel, Luxembourg. Original article published in L’essentiel, Luxembourg. Pendant des années, une ex-étudiante britannique a œuvré pour attirer de jeunes musulmanes en Syrie, où elles épousaient des jihadistes. Aujourd’hui, Tooba Gondal veut rentrer chez elle.
Children evacuated with their mothers from Baghouz, the last ISIS holdout in Syria Key events North East Syria after defeat of ISIS caliphateYPJ stated at their ceremony over the military defeat of ISIS that their next aim is to liberate Afrin. Read more The Autonomous Administration of Northern and Eastern Syria called on the international […]
Original article by Amara Şervan, The Independent, 25 March 2019 I decided to join the YPJ in 2013. From the very start, Rimelan until Derik, Tel Kocer, Sere Kaniye, Manbij, Shengal, until now in Deir Ezzor, in every campaign, we went through so much. What I remember from the war against Isis is our will […]
Key events: – End of the so-called ISIS Caliphate. – Italian Internationalist volunteer killed in Baghouz. – Assassination of Bayram Namaz, MLKP leader in NES. – Clashes Between an Yezidi Militia and the Iraqi Army. End of ISIS: SDF led their final assault on the night of the 22-23 march, conducted mostly by special forces […]
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