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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, Kurdish-led Internal Security Forces (ISF), also known as Asayesh, arrested seven teachers for se...

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 ...

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 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. Problems w...

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 Rojava Information Center (RIC), Majid Yasser Sikran, 5, Abdelmuhsen Sikran, 12, both from Tal Rifaat, an...

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 Kurdish-led authority. According to the UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR), the firs...