Syria: Are water supplies being weaponized by Turkey?
Water outages in Syria s 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 Syria s 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 Sunday, some parts of the region are experiencing the eighth straight day without water.
UN warns of increasing assassinations in Syria’s al-Hol camp
The entrance of the sprawling al-Hol camp, located in northeastern Syria’s Hasakah province. (Photo: Archive)
Reports of escalating violence at Al Hol are of urgent concern.
The vast majority in Al Hol are women and children, who fled to the camp seeking protection and assistance. Residents and humanitarians alike must be protected.
“Disturbing events indicate an increasingly untenable security environment at Al Hol,” said Imran Riza, UN Resident Coordinator and Humanitarian Coordinator in Syria, and UN Regional Humanitarian Coordinator for the Syria Crisis Muhannad Hadi in the statement.
“With almost 62,000 residents, Al Hol is the largest camp for refugees and internally displaced people in Syria.”
The Syrian government has demanded the "immediate and unconditional withdrawal" of US forces from the war-torn country due to their "hostile practices".In a statement issued on Wednesday the Foreign Ministry condemned what .
VT Damascus: Today, 40 top leaders and over 1000 fighters, held in prison in Hasakah, Syria, jointly by Kurdish and Syrian Defense Forces, were released to an American column that approached Ghweran Prison this morning.
Only last week, American planes joined in an air attack on the Syrian Arab Army who was fighting ISIS units south of the city of Palmyra. 53 Syria soldiers were killed in that attack which allowed the withdrawal of an ISIS column to the safety of US held oil facilities east of the Euphrates River where they could rejoin their Saudi and Israeli advisors.
The ISIS leaders released today are to be deployed against Syria to fight in support of Israeli, Saudi and American forces inside Syria who provide air cover, artillery and logistics support for al Qaeda and ISIS and who sell stolen Syrian oil to Turkey for pennies on the dollar.