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Russians pull out from Syrian town previously targeted by Turkish-backed forces    2021/02/22 10:09 The Russian army last year established new points in Ain Issa to prevent further Turkish attacks. (Photo: Social media) ERBIL (Kurdistan 24) - The Syria-based Rojava Information Center (RIC) on Sunday evening reported that Russian forces had pulled out from the main base in Ain Issa in northeast Syria, possibly in a bid to pressure the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) to make a deal ...

February 18, 2021 Share The deaths stacked up: a policeman shot dead with a pistol equipped with a silencer, a local official gunned down, his son wounded, an Iraqi man beheaded. In total, 20 men and women were killed last month in the sprawling camp in northeastern Syria housing families of the Islamic State group. The slayings in al-Hol camp — nearly triple the deaths in previous months — are largely believed to have been carried out by IS militants punishing perceived enemies and...

Killings have surged inside the camp in northeast Syria housing families of Islamic State group members

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Kurdish-led SDF arrests 4 ISIS suspects in eastern Syria with Coalition support    2021/02/03 16:28 Special units of the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) have carried out several operations against the Islamic State in recent weeks (Photo: SDF Coordination and Military Operations Centre) ERBIL (Kurdistan 24) – The Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) announced on Tuesday that it had arrested four suspected members of the so-called Islamic State in Syria’s Deir al-Zor and ...

Disputes, arrests over school curriculum in northeastern Syria Kurdish students attend class at a school in Qamishli, Syria, March 11, 2019. (Photo: Reuters/Issam Abdallah) ERBIL (Kurdistan 24) – The arrest of a number of teachers last week who were privately teaching the official curriculum of the Syrian government highlights the complex situation in northeastern Syria where Damascus and the local self-ruled administration compete over what is taught to the youth who live there. On Jan. 19, ...

Syria: Are water supplies being weaponized by Turkey? Water outages in Syrias northeast are often leaving around half a million people without potable water. Is Turkey using the outages as a weapon to destabilize the region, as some claim? Around 1 million people are suffering from water outages in the Al-Hasakah region Around 1 million people in the Kurdish-governed region of Al-Hasakah in Syrias northeast have again had their water supply cut off — as they have around 20 times in the past...

Syria: Are water supplies being weaponized by Turkey? Jennifer Holleis © Provided by dw.com Around half a million people are suffering from water outages in the Al-Hasakah region Around one million people in the Kurdish-governed region of Al-Hasakah in Syrias northeast have again had their water supply cut off — as they have around 20 times in the past 12 months. "This is a humanitarian disaster," Sara Kayyali, a Syria researcher at Human Rights Watch, told DW. As of this ...

Shelling by Turkish-backed groups killed three civilians in northern Aleppo on Saturday (Photo: social media) ERBIL (Kurdistan 24) – Turkey-aligned groups on Saturday bombarded central Tal Rifaat city, an enclave still controlled by Kurdish-backed fighters and surrounded by Ankara-backed rebel militias and Syrian regime forces. The shelling killed at least three civilians and wounded six others. Those killed were one woman and two children. The victims were, according to the Syria-based Rojav...

Pro-government troops, local Kurdish forces make counter-arrests amid rising tensions in north Syria    2021/01/06 19:21 A member of the Kurdish Internal Security Forces (Asayish) in the northern Syrian city of Qamishlo. (Photo: Archive) ERBIL (Kurdistan 24) – Tensions continue to escalate between Syrian pro-government forces and local Internal Security Forces (Asayish) after the Syrian regime arrested several individuals in late December over alleged affiliation to the local K...