Tag Archives: SYRIA
Arrests and kidnappings of children and women by Turkish-backed factions
Arrests and kidnappings of children and women by Turkish-backed factions take place in most areas occupied by Turkey in north Syria. These kidnappings are a way these factions obtain intelligence and money. Here are some names of women and children who were kidnapped lately: ۱- Fatima Muhammad Hassan (22-year-old), from Aleppo. She was living in […]
Assassinations of ex-SDF members continue
Another ex-SDF member has been assassinated in eastern Deir ez-Zor. Unknown masked gunmen opened fire on an ex-fighter of Syria Democratic Forces and another civilian escorting him, in Hawayij village in the eastern countryside of Deir Ezzor this morning. The ex-fighter died instantly, while the civilian sustained injuries. It is unclear who the ex-fighter was […]
STJ: SDF still recruiting child soldiers
The Geneva-based Human Rights Watchdog called Syrians for Truth and Justice have released a special report documenting cases of recruitment of minors in Syria. Operating in Northeastern Syria, the SDF has not yet shown full commitment to preventing child recruitment, even though, given the blessings of the Autonomous Administration, it had signed an action plan […]
Turkey: PYD/ENKS peace talks is a conspiracy to create international representing space for the PKK in North-East Syria
Turkey is openly disgruntled over the US-backed effort to unite disparate Syrian Kurdish rival political factions that kicked off last month. Turkish disgruntlement was palpable in a May 11 dispatch in Turkey’s state-run Anadolu news agency. It characterized the effort to unite disparate Syrian Kurdish factions as more of a conspiracy aimed at creating “international […]
Abdullah Ocalan himself said Syrian Kurds were immigrants
Today, the PYD/PKK administration that holds a part of North-East Syria claims to be anti-government. But let’s take a look at an article published in 1997 and a book published in 1996. ‘During the 1980s and 1990s, the PKK succeeded, with full knowledge of the Syrian regime, in enlisting tens of thousands of young Kurdish […]
Damascus is repaving the ground for its return to North-East Syria
Damascus has never let the people of North-East Syria down. Even though its territory has been under ISIS and SDF rule for years, it has always provided its doctors, nurses, teachers and other officials with their monthly wages. Neither has it cut off telephone and internet connections. It has even provided the area with vaccination […]
North Syria’s farmland remains unplanted
Before the Syrian civil war, 40% of Syria’s total wheat production came from Hasakah governate. Throughout the Syrian civil war, this area changed hands many times. Part of the governate is currently in hands of the PYD/PKK administration, other part of the governate is in hands of the Turkey-backed rebel opposition. Estimates show 440,000 hectares […]
Russia and America play cat and mouse in North-East Syria
Yesterday, we could see how the brave people of Qamishlo helped the legitimate government’s National Defense Force to prevent a US patrol from entering Qamishlo. Today, the US forces tried to enter the PYD/PKK-controlled city once again. This time, Russian patrols blocked the road between Hasakah and Qamishlo so that the US patrol could not […]
PKK attempts to revive Marxism in Syria
The PKK/PYD administration of North-East Syria is known for its attractiveness to excentric people from all around the world, who have been given a green light to perform their political activities as long as they fight under the SDF flag. The area holds marxists, maoists, communalists, anarchists and many more. Strange enough, PYD/PKK can not […]
ISIS attacks are increasing in Syria and Iraq
On the map above you can see the location of ISIS attacks in April 2020 in both Syria and Iraq. When we focus on Syria, we can see most of the attacks are clustered in PYD/PKK-controlled areas. These areas form an insecurity vacuum in Syria. We can also conclude an increase in the amount of […]