
Update December 4: Northern Syria Offensive
Focus, NewsHighlights
- 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…

‘ISIS matchmaker feared children would be killed’ if she fled terror group – Metro News, UK
Media Coverage, News
Original article by James Hockaday, Metro News
British ISIS member Tooba Gondal wants to return to the UK (Picture: Rojava Information Center)
A jihadi bride
dubbed ‘the ISIS Matchmaker’ was told her two children would be killed…

Our treatment of the ‘Isis matchmaker’ will only create the Islamist terrorists of the future
Media Coverage, News, Women
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…

British jihadi known as the ‘ISIS matchmaker’ is found in a Syrian refugee camp – Daily Mail, UK
Media Coverage, News, Women
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…

“Daesh matchmaker” dreams of a second chance – L’essentiel, Luxembourg
Media Coverage, News"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.

I eradicated Isis with my women comrades. Now our aim is to spread feminism across the Middle East – The Independent, UK
Media Coverage, News, Women
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…

ISIS is a way of life – Radio Euskadi, Basque Country
Media Coverage, News
Discussion between Ferran Barber and Karlos Zurutuza on the radio program Más que la palabras, broadcast by Euskal Irrati Telebista.
Analizamos con dos reporteros de guerra, Karlos Zurutuza y Ferrán Barber, qué queda del DAESH…

Kurdish Forces Battling Islamic State in Baghuz Light Fires to Celebrate Kurdish New Year
Media Coverage
Original article published by Yahoo News, 20 March 2019
Kurdish forces battling Islamic State in Baghuz lit fires and fired guns to celebrate the upcoming Kurdish new year, Rojava Information Center said.
People across eastern and…

As Isis Falls, a Humanitarian Crisis Is Rapidly Unfolding in North-Eastern Syria – Novara Media, UK
Media Coverage, News
Original article by Dani Ellis, Novara Media
Once encompassing an area the size of England with a population
of almost 10 million, the Islamic State of Syria and the Levant (Isis)
now occupies just a small village near the Syria-Iraq…

Kurdish-Arab forces fight their last battle against ISIS in eastern Syria – El Pais, Spain
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Original article by Natalia Sancha, El País
Un miembro de las Fuerzas Democráticas Sirias, este martes en Baguz. D. SOULEIMAN AFP
“El avance está siendo lento debido al enorme número de minas
plantadas en el camino y por los…

Jinwar, the Syrian village that is only for women – Ara, Catalonia
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Original article by Ethel Bonet, Ara, 8 March 2019
¿És possible construir una utopia feminista enmig de la devastació de la guerra? Les dones del poblat de Jinwar ho han fet realitat. Han estat dos anys treballant intensament per…
