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People’s Defense Courts will try ISIS criminals
The Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria (AANES) is in the process of preparing the trials of ISIS members. AANES stated in its announcement that ISIS members will be fairly tried in accordance with international and local…
Russian soldier dies from Turkish bombs: no reaction from Russia
According to several reports, a Russian soldier was killed and several others were injured by Turkish shelling in Northern Syria on Monday.
Accordingly, Turkish forces and it’s ally, the 'Syrian National Army' (SNA), bombed the area…
HRW Associate Director: “International community must support ISIS trials”
Letta Tayler, associate director in the crisis and conflict division of Human Rights Watch (HRW), urges the international community in a tweet to back the trials of ISIS detainees in northern and eastern Syria. Following the…
Northeast Syria to try more than 10.000 foreign ISIS members
The Autonomous Administration of Northern and Eastern Syria (AANES) has announced that it will begin legal proceedings against more than ten thousand ISIS members. AANES stated that their decision was made in consideration of the fact…
How a war criminal from Syria makes a career in Turkey
Abu Hatem Shaqra, a highly controversial commander of the Syrian Islamist opposition group 'Ahrar al-Sharqiya', recently graduated from a university in Turkey's Mardin province (Kurdish: Mêrdîn). As the journalist Ferid Demirel reported…
Another Kurdish child killed after being hit by police-driven vehicle
In the Yüksekova district of Hakkari, Erdem Aşkan, a 5-year-old Kurdish boy, lost his life after being hit by a car driven by a specialized sergeant. The car driven by a specialist sergeant on duty at the Yüksekova District Gendarmerie…
ISIS supporters arrested in the Netherlands for planning attack
A 16-year-old ISIS supporter has been arrested in the Dutch city of Eindhoven on suspicion of contacting men linked to ISIS who were planning to carry out an attack. Last Tuesday, a 19-year-old man was also arrested in Deventer on the same…
Turkish attacks undermine security at Al-Hol camp
In its May sleeper cell report, the Rojava Information Center (RIC) reported that Turkish attacks had weakened the security of Al-Hol camp and that ISIS cells had expanded their extortion efforts. The RIC, which compiled the…
New cabinet presented: Is Erdogan planning a new Kurdish policy?
Recep Tayyip Erdogan won the presidential runoff on May 28 and was sworn in on Saturday. At the same time, Erdogan appointed his new cabinet. Erdogan changed the entire cabinet except for two names. Only the health minister and the…
Turkey’s former intelligence chief becomes foreign minister
President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has taken oath of office in parliament and announced the new cabinet. When Erdogan read the speech during the swearing-in ceremony, Green Left Party (YSP) and Republican People’s Party (CHP) deputies did not…