What is your name? What is your job and the work of the Armenian Council? Kohar Khajadourian (co-chair of the Armenian Social Council in Qamishlo): We have been working for seven years for this council. After 3 years the General Council was formed in Heseke, and it was recognized by the Autonomous Administration. On this […]

In the face of war and regional isolation, the Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria (AANES) has constructed a network of universities on its territory in order to rival the knowledge-production institutions of the Syrian government. In its stead, it offers a tertiary education system on par with international standards, yet fundamentally influenced by […]

Asayish during ‘Operation Humanity and Security’. The ongoing ‘Operation Humanity and Security’ in Hol camp yielded 121 arrests in the month of August. Outside of Hol camp, sleeper cell attacks and casualties increased slightly from July. Inside of Hol camp, murders remained low; ISIS has largely shifted strategy, planning more infrequent, but large-scale, attacks rather […]

0 People Killed 0 People Injured 0 Civilians Killed 0 Civilians Injured 0 Drone Attacks On the 19th of July, 2022, a meeting between the heads of state of Turkey, Iran and Russia took place in Tehran in order to discuss their country’s involvement in the war in Syria. The tripartite meeting took place amid […]

Original article published on taz.die tageszeitung by Christopher Wimmer on 7 March 2022. QAMIşLO taz | „Manchmal haben wir keinen Strom oder kein Internet, regelmäßig kommt es zu Schießereien. Das ist zwar meist nichts Großes, aber man muss immer wissen, was passiert. Dafür ist es wichtig, mit den Menschen verbunden und für alle Fälle vorbereitet […]

Download the full report here. This report is a compilation of open-source information about the current state of the SNA militias active in the Turkish-occupied territories of Syria (as of August 2022). It updates the already existing descriptions of the SNA militias contained in RIC’s ‘The Syrian National Army: The Turkish Proxy Militias of Northern […]