Category: Report
Rape by Turkish army officials
Last night, citizens of Shirnak, Turkey, caught a Turkish sergeant major A. A. when they heard his victim, a 13-yr old local girl, screaming for help. The sergeant major attempted to rape the girl. The attack has caused great outcry by the local population and does not come alone, as the life-threatening condition of an […]
Controversiality around SDF’s educational programme
This week, the Syrian Democratic Council, which is the political wing of SDF, has announced the new curriculum that will be taught in their occupied areas. Teachers and parents in different Arab-majority areas, like Deir ez-Zor and Raqqah have protested against the curriculum. The self-proclaimed Autonomous Administration has problems introducing its secular education program in […]
Forced recruitment for 4000 men in North-East Syria
Forced recruitment operations continue in the self-proclaimed Autonomous Administration of North-East Syria, where SDF’s military police arrests young men and takes them to a “compulsory service program”. According to statistics collected by the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, about 4,000 young people have been arrested in Hasakah, Aleppo, Raqqa and Deir Al-Zour, since the resumption […]
YPJ has kidnapped 3 children this week
Even though Human Rights watchdogs closely monitor the recruitment of minors by PKK’s Syrian wing, the YPG/YPJ, the organisation continues to recruit minors on a regular basis, despite efforts by the families to return their underaged children. This week three different families have published their appeal on social media. This is Ronida Dari, the daughter […]
SDF’s Deir ez-Zor military council kidnaps 5 civilians
Unrest has broken out in Deir ez-Zor upon the tenth day of the arrest of 5 civilians, including a mentally ill person and a child. The arrest has been carried out by the Deir ez-Zor military council, and is praised on social media by both the SDF and the US coalition. Many locals argue that […]
REPRESENTATIVE FARID YAQOUB: SOVEREIGNTY OF IRAQ IS BEING VIOLATED AGAIN AFTER TURKISH ATTACKS AND IRANIAN BOMBING
The Assyrian deputy Farid Yaqoub, head of the Rafidain bloc in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq, called on the governments of Baghdad and Erbil to assume their responsibilities in preserving the sovereignty of the country and protecting the lives and property of innocent citizens in the border areas bordering Turkey due to ground attacks and […]
Khalil Aldar’s statement to Syrians
Khalil answers concerned Syrians worries with regard to latest understandings among Kurdish parties in an official media statement. Aldar Khalil said that what the Kurdish parties reached in Syria is a preliminary understanding, after it became clear that there is no major difference in political views among the Kurdish people. He noted that the wrong […]
Suleiman Ali Khan to the IKHRW: KRG deceives people
Suleiman Ali Khan, a Kurdish journalist in the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG), who is also the editor of a Kurdish online magazine, says: “We have no democracy nor development here. The KRG does not pay attention to the people’s demands. Trhis is while in the developed countries, the authorities care more about human beings than […]
Conflicting news from North-East Syria’s Kurdish Politics
As we have reported yesterday, SDC’s Elham Ehmed, PYD’s Aldar Xelil and SDF ‘general’ Mazloum Kobane gave conflicting updates on their visions for future alliances. Today, Mazloum Kobane made statements to Kurdistan24, a Kurdish TV channel based in KRG. He stated:”We have now moved to the second phase. We hope that both political parties will […]
SDF Sells Syrian Oil To Israel
After the control of areas of Northern and North-Eastern Syria by the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), the PKK branch, and with US support, the region’s oil wells attracted the attention of the United States and Israel. The PKK-affiliated armed goup, without the permission of the central government and illegally, has given all the authority to […]