Covid-19 in Syria: SDF s killing of civilian during curfew reminiscent of IS rule
Several people also injured as angry residents burn down SDF s headquarters in Raqqa following shop owner s death
Angry residents lit tyres to block the roads in Jdeideh Keheit, a town in the eastern countryside of Raqqa province (MEE/Hussam Hammoud) By Published date: 21 April 2021 12:24 UTC | Last update: 38 min 34 sec ago
There have been clashes in Syria s Raqqa province after Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) shot dead a shop owner on Friday while enforcing a Covid-19 curfew.
The incident in Jdeideh Keheit, a town in the eastern countryside of Raqqa, has prompted comparisons with the era of Islamic State (IS) rule that ended with the intervention of the US-backed SDF in 2017.
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The Assyrian Church of the Virgin Mary, which was destroyed in 2015 by the Islamic State, in the village of Tal Nasri, south of the town of Tal Tamr, northeastern Hasakah province, Syria, Nov. 15, 2019.
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Abdullah Shrem, 46, at his home near Duhok in the Kurdistan region of Iraq. Among the tools he used to help find and rescue Yazidis captured by the Islamic State were detailed maps and a network of contacts in Iraq and Syria. (Stephanie Jenzer/CBC)
He hasn t kept bees or sold honey in years and he s no longer living in Sinjar.
But Abdullah Shrem is still known to many as the beekeeper of Sinjar, his ancestral lands in the district of Sinjar in northwest Iraq. There s even a book titled after him.
In 2014, he parlayed his honey-buying contacts in neighbouring Syria into a network of potential saviours for Yazidi women and children enslaved by ISIS when it swept across the Yazidi heartland in northwest Iraq in August of that year.
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