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Government, Kurdish forces clash in northeast Syria The pro-government National Defense Forces fired on Kurdish Asayesh forces at a checkpoint in Qamishli, according to Kurdish sources. Members of the Kurdish Internal Security Police Force, also known as Asayesh, man a checkpoint in the northeastern Syrian Kurdish-majority city of Qamishli Jan. 31, 2021. Clashes broke out in northeast Syria last night between Kurdish and government forces. The violence began in the Qamishli neighborhood of Tayy. The pro-government militia the National Defense Forces attacked a checkpoint held by Kurdis...

Killings in Syria’s al-Hol camp down after SDF security operation ERBIL (Kurdistan 24) – The number of targeted killings in the al-Hol displacement camp in northeast Syria have fallen slightly following a sweeping security operation by the Syrian Democratic Forces, according to a new report from the Rojava Information Center.  Sixteen people, including two women, died in the camp in March, the RIC’s monthly report said, “a slight decrease since February.” The SDF’s Coordination and Military Operations Center said on April 10 that “no new crimes” had been reported in the camp,...

The new measures coincide with Ramadan and follow a relatively high number of new COVID-19 cases in the autonomous region.

In the early morning darkness, a militiawoman loosens her braid under her balaclava before grabbing a rifle and taking up a frontline position with a group of the Anti-Terrorist Units (known by their Kurdish acronym YAT). This is a mixed force of men and women who were partially trained by the US Marines, and which is now leading a broad “humanitarian and security” operation against sleeper cells of the Islamic State (ISIS) hiding among the sea of tents at Al-Hol, the biggest detention camp for ISIS family members in northeastern Syria. It is sometime before dawn on Sunday. Backed u...

SDF special forces units (Photo: SDF's Coordination and Military Operations Center) ERBIL (Kurdistan 24) – The US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) on Sunday arrested nine suspects affiliated with the so-called Islamic State, as the terrorist group continues attacks in northeast Syria, especially in the Arab majority Deir al-Zor province. The SDF's Coordination and Military Operations Center on Sunday said on Twitter that SDF special forces units had in a raid arrested nine Islamic State suspects, including senior leaders (emirs) in the Deir al-Zor countryside. The cell was suspect...