by Kamal Sheikho | Aug 13, 2017 | Middle East
Ain Issa Camp, Raqqa- In an isolated room in Ain Issa Camp – 50 kilometers north Raqqa – three Syrian women sat while dressed in black. Beside them sat children whose ages are three years or less and none of them has an official birth certificate. They got married to...
by Kamal Sheikho | Jul 24, 2017 | Middle East
Ayn Issa, Raqqa, Syria- Resting in a humble tent and under scorching heat touching unprecedented peaks, Jasim Alali, 52, along with his wife, three children, and two cousins sit together reminiscing on what it was like a few days before being driven out of their...
by Kamal Sheikho | Jun 28, 2017 | Features
Sanlıurfa (Turkey) – When the ISIS terrorist group captured the Syrian city of Raqqa and announced it as its de facto capital in June 2014, Mona Freij was an opposition activist who was organizing anti-regime rallies with her fellow colleagues. Months later, she was...
