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Yazer at Qamishli’s market, shopping for food for iftar. June 2017. Noah Bonsey

Will the Americans Abandon Us?

by Noah Bonsey | Jul 19, 2017 | Features

Noah Bonsey, a senior analyst for Syria at the International Crisis Group, visits the northeast of the country to meet a Syrian Kurdish organization that has made the region relatively secure, yet knows that it still has far to go in its struggle – particularly for...

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A member of the Kurdish internal security forces (known as the Asayish) inspects the Alaya prison in the northeastern Syrian city of Qamishli on April 22, 2016.

Kurdish-Pro-Syrian Government Forces Declare Truce in Qamishli

by Asharq Al-Awsat English | Apr 23, 2016 | Middle East

BEIRUT, April 23 – A ceasefire has been declared in northeastern Syria by the Regional Kurdish security forces and the pro-Syrian government according to Kurdish sides, and thus in in result bringing to an end a three-day outbreak of violence that lead to the...

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The Syriac Orthodox Patriarch Aphrem II. (Syriac Orthodox Church)

Syria belongs to its people: Syriac Orthodox Patriarch

by Amy Assad | Dec 19, 2014 | Interviews

Vienna and London, Asharq Al-Awsat—It is Christmas season in Austria and a chilly, drizzly evening in its capital Vienna. The city’s busy Christmas market at the foot of its grand Town Hall beams cheerfully with multi-colored lanterns as steam radiates from its hot...

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Kurdish opposition fighters attend a ceremony on July 18, 2013, in the northern Syrian border village of al Qamishli. AFP PHOTO/STR

Leading Syrian Kurdish figure killed by car bomb

by Caroline Akoum | Jul 31, 2013 | Middle East

Beirut, Asharq Al-Awsat—A prominent Syrian Kurdish leader was killed in the northern city of Qamishli, near the Turkish border on Tuesday. Issa Hisso, a leading figure in the Kurdish Democratic Union Party (PYD) was killed by a bomb planted under his car, outside his...