updated Wed. May 1, 2024
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The Nation
March 25, 2018
One migrant Ahmed Wessam, who spoke to AFP in Sarajevo, left the northeastern Syrian town of Hassake a month ago having paid people smugglers to get him to Europe. “A thousand dollars (800 euros) to go ... Most of them are Syrians, Pakistanis, Libyans or Afghans. The authorities fear that the end ofÃâà...
Asia Times
December 24, 2017
Syrian pundits argued back then that this could “never happen to Syria,” claiming that there was no serious jihadi threat like the one in Egypt or Iraq. ... of minorities,” the Syrian government has tried hard to court Syrian Christians, appointing a Christian lawyer from the town of al-Hassake in the SyrianÃâà...
Center for Research on Globalization
October 10, 2017
But if their focus is on defeating Daesh, as they claim, why are they committing genocide against Syrians in the process? Taking this into consideration, it is hard to justify the West's persistent claim that armed Kurdish terrorist groups are trying to help Syria. The reality on the ground contradicts these emptyÃâà...
GMA News
August 19, 2017
HASSAKE, Syria - Syriac Orthodox Christians in Syria's northeastern city of Hasakeh celebrated the inauguration of the community's new bishop on Saturday, four years after the last one left the country. Six years of conflict have ravaged Syria and displaced more than half of its population, including millionsÃâà...
Voltaire Network
August 10, 2017
Since the U.S. invasion of Iraq and the ongoing conflict in Syria, Kurds have been romanticized by mainstream media and U.S. politicians alike to .... salaries, and training are provided by the U.S. Syrians consider the Kurds who have remained loyal to Syria as their fellow Syrian brothers and sisters and theÃâà...
Mintpress News (blog)
July 10, 2017
Kurdish fighters from the People's Protection Units, (Y.P.G), stand guard next to American armored vehicles at the Syria-Turkey border, Apri, 2017. .... salaries, and training are provided by the U.S. Syrians consider the Kurds who have remained loyal to Syria as their fellow Syrian brothers and sisters andÃâà...
The Daily Star
June 16, 2017
"We know now their tactics," Hassake says, boasting of knowledge acquired by the SDF, who have recaptured several former ISIS bastions in Syria. ... The US-led coalition backing the SDF has also been intensifying its air strikes at night, SDF commanders and the Syrian Observatory for Human RightsÃâà...
Washington Examiner
May 9, 2017
Syria's ruling Baath Party had systematically and mercilessly persecuted Kurds for decades before the Syrian Revolution, ever since the infamous 1962 "Hassake census" that stripped citizenship from 120,000 Kurds. Kurdish suffering increased in 1973, when Hafiz al-Assad initiated a wide campaignÃâà...
Washington Examiner
May 9, 2017
Syria's ruling Baath Party had systematically and mercilessly persecuted Kurds for decades before the Syrian Revolution, ever since the infamous 1962 "Hassake census" that stripped citizenship from 120,000 Kurds. Kurdish suffering increased in 1973, when Hafiz al-Assad initiated a wide campaignÃâà...
World Health Organization
September 23, 2015
Since armed unrest erupted more than 4 years ago in Syria, resulting in huge movements of the population inside the country and spilling into neighboring ... In the first 6 months of 2015, more than 34 000 Syrian children in Jordan were vaccinated against polio and measles, and more than 46 000 Syrians receivedÃâà...
Catholic News Agency
February 26, 2015
“There are 200 families who were running away and trying to escape to Turkey, but the border is closed for Syrians. No Syrian can cross into Turkey,” ... Archbishop Hindo oversees the Syrian archdiocese of Hassake, which is located in the Al-Hasakah region of Syria. The region sits between the country'sÃâà...
New York Times
March 20, 2013
Last September, a production manager in Rumeilan said the fields produced 166,000 barrels a day before the conflict began, just under half of Syria's daily prewar output. The conflict had cut output from Hassake in half, he said at the time, speaking on condition of anonymity because he was a SyrianÃâà...
