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Children trained in camps to become new ISIS generation
The Women's Protection Units (YPJ), part of the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) military alliance, released a video on its website showing the contents of phones secretly and illegally held by ISIS women. In the video 'Beneath the…
Coalition silence on Turkish attacks hinders joint action
The Autonomous Administration of North East Syria (AANES) issued a statement condemning the Turkish state's aggression against the region and the international coalition’s silence on these attacks, which affects joint…
Turkey builds wall in occupied Afrin
The Human Rights Organization Afrin-Syria released a statement declaring that the Turkish occupation army has built a concrete wall 5 kilometers long and 3 meters high from the Turkish-occupied village of Kemar, south of Afrin, to…
Collapse of the Syrian currency: Syria descends into chaos
The Syrian lira, Syria's official currency, is in free fall. In some parts of the country, the exchange rate for one US dollar was over 13,000 Syrian liras. In mid-July, the rate was around 10,500 Syrian lira. The currency has lost almost…
Treaty of Lausanne – 100 years after the division and the deprival of rights
Since the 15th century, the region of the Middle East and the Eastern part of Anatolia have been targets of colonial greed as well as a place of settling calculations between the super powers, leading to continuously concluding agreements…
The Kurdish leftists to „Target“: „Russia is suffocating us and the International Coalition applies…
Target Platform - Ahmad Qatma
The issue of humanitarian crossings into Syria occupies a large area of concern to the Syrians, in light of the need of many of them for international care, regardless of the size of Syria’s…
Syrian cancer patients denied treatment in Turkey
The New Arab reports that over the weekend, dozens of Syrians gathered at the Bab al-Hawa border crossing between Syria and Turkey to protest Turkey's refusal to allow cancer patients to cross the border for treatment. At least…
More than half of Syria’s population is food insecure
In a briefing to the Security Council on the humanitarian situation in Syria, Ramesh Rajasingham, Head and Representative of the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) Geneva and Director…
Syrian refugees displaced by drought and war feel trapped
Pinar Dinc and Lina Eklund, researchers at the Centre of Advanced Middle Eastern Studies, have published a research paper entitled 'Syrian farmers in the midst of drought and conflict: the causes, patterns, and aftermath of land…
Increased attacks on Iranian militias and soldiers in Syria
Several members of Iranian or Iran-backed militias have been killed or wounded in Syria in recent days. The attacks have increased in recent weeks. Iran supports ruler Bashar al-Assad in the Syrian civil war and is active in Syria…