Explainer: Syrian Transitional Government Assault on Aleppo’s Kurdish Neighborhoods

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Summary - Sheikh Maqsoud and Ashrafiyeh neighborhoods offered sanctuary to up to 200,000 Kurds, minorities and Arabs, primarily Internally Displaced People (IDPs) - Neighborhoods faced over a decade of deadly assaults and economic embargo…

Update December 4 – Northern Syria Offensive

Highlights - 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…

Dossier: Turkish provision of material support to al-Qaeda-linked groups in Idlib

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  Prepared by special request for an upcoming bilateral meeting in the United States Congress, our latest dossier compiles visual evidence of Turkish provision of material support to al-Qaeda-linked groups in Idlib. Turkey is…

Report: 2019 review of sleeper cell attacks and anti-ISIS raids in North and East Syria

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Key findings • The months leading up to September saw a steady month-on-month decrease in ISIS sleeper cell attacks, and an increase in SDF anti-ISIS raids. Following the Turkish invasion in October, the number of attacks has consistently…

Report: The Political System of North and East Syria

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  The new RIC report, 'Beyond the frontlines - The building of the democratic system in North and East Syria,' describes the system of political organization in North and East Syria. We spoke to over 50 political actors in North…

Die christlichen Kämpferinnen von Tell Tamer

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Im Norden Syriens leiden Minderheiten wie die Christen unter der türkischen Offensive. Auch sie fühlen sich verraten. Nicht nur Männer bereiten sich auf den Kampf vor. Nisha Gorie, die Sprecherin der Fraueneinheit des Militärrats der…

SDF and Coalition conduct 347 anti-ISIS raids and 476 arrests in 2019, 75% decrease since Turkish invasion

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YPG and Asayish special forces captured hundreds of sleeper cell members, in addition to thousands of ISIS members captured on the battlefield or in surrender ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi was reported killed in a US raid near the Turkish…

ISIS families escape Ain Issa camp in northeast Syria after Turkish bombardment

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The defense post Original article by Joanne Stocker, October 13, 2019 Hundreds of family members of Islamic State adherents held inside a camp in Ain Issa, northern Syria, have escaped following Turkish bombardment nearby, according…

Kurdish civilians flee as Turkish forces bomb Syria for third day

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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 begins offensive on Kurdish-held Syrian territory

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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…

Head of Syrian town says Berlin partnership focused on ecology – K24, Iraqi Kurdistan

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Original article by Wladimir van Wilgenburg, Kurdistan 24. A partnership was signed this summer between Berlin’s Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg and the mixed Kurdish-Christian town of Derik in the northeast of Syria (Photo: social media) Rojîn…

Bomb explodes outside church in Qamishli Christian neighborhood – The Defense Post, US

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Original article by Joanne Stocker, The Defense Post. A car bomb that blew up outside a church in a Christian area of the city of Qamishli in northeast Syria injured nearly a dozen people, security services in northeast Syria said. Islamic…