Turkey’s Weaponising of Water in Syria is Increasing the Risk of COVID-19 Spreading

Qamishli, Jazira region, Syria Original article by Stephen Delahunty in Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, 25 April 2020 More than a million people in Kurdish-held areas of north-east Syria are being put at risk of a mass Coronavirus…

France 24 – COVID-19 Pandemic: Syria’s Kurds fighting the virus alone

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8JuK_o7uDR4 Original France 24 Report, 22 April 2020 The spread of the coronavirus is especially worrisome in Syria. After years of war, the country's health infrastructure has been all but destroyed,…

Rojava: en busca de la estabilidad imposible

Para contener la pandemia la Administración Autónoma del Norte y Este de Siria decidió imponer la cuarentena hasta el 23 de abril, cerrar escuelas y universidades y también el paso fronterizo de Semalka. Además, se han prohibido los…

Syria’s Kurdish-led region decries lack of international support in COVID-19 fight

Syria's northeast is left with little outside assistance to fight the coronavirus pandemic and requires much more international support. Women hold stacks of bread as they walk along an empty street, as restrictions are imposed as measure…

Syria’s isolated Kurds wait and worry as coronavirus threat grows

Original article, by The National, on April 6, 2020 As the number of coronavirus cases in Syria increases, strained ties with the government and restrictions on aid into the north-east have left the Kurdish-led administration unprepared…

Corona: Angst in Rojava

Original Article, by Heise, on MArch 27, 2020 Kurdische Autonomieverwaltung in Nord- und Ostsyrien appelliert an internationale Hilfe Rund um den Globus dreht sich alles nur noch um das Krisenmanagement der COVID-19 Pandemie. Auch…

Syria’s Kurds Brace For Coronavirus Amidst Tensions With Turkey

Original Article, by The National Interest, on March 26, 2020 Turkish-backed rebels reopened a pumping station in Northeast Syria on Thursday, restoring clean water to hundreds of thousands of Syrians in a region unprepared for the…

A Year Since Baghuz, the Islamic State Is Neither Defeated nor Resurging (Yet)

Original Article by Washington Institute for Near East Policy, on March 25, 2020 Although attack statistics have declined, the continued lack of stable governance in Diyala and Deir al-Zour shows that Washington and its partners have…

Is Syria unable, or unwilling, to fend off Iran coronavirus contagion?

A street cleaner rests at empty Souk al-Hamidieh, as restrictions are imposed as a measure to prevent the spread of the coronavirus in Damascus, Syria, March 24, 2020. Original Article by Al-Monitor, March 25 2020 The UN special…

Kurdish-led northeast under lockdown as Syria announces first coronavirus case

A member of the Kurdish-led Asayish security organization stands near a man in a wheelchair along an empty street, as restrictions are imposed as measure to prevent the spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in Qamishli, Syria, March…