Update on ISIS
Earlier in the week the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) and the U.S.-led Coalition began their second offensive in the Deir A’zzour province against the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS). In the province, ISIS controls territory from Hajin to Abu Kamal and along the...
Amnesty International: US-Led Airstrikes in Raqqah Could be “War Crimes”
On June 5th Amnesty International released a report titled “War of Annihilation” detailing the “devastating toll on civilians”1 that the US-led coalition against Daesh had in Raqqah, Syria. Amnesty International researchers spent two weeks in Raqqah where they visited 42 airstrike sites and interviewed 112...
SDF Withdrawal from Manbij
The General Command of the Kurdish People’s Protection Units (YPG) released a statement on Tuesday, June 5th announcing the withdrawal of its military advisors from the northwestern Syrian city of Manbij (1). YPG advisors had been stationed in Manbij to train the Manbij Military Council...
The Forgotten Toll
On Thursday, June 8th, an airstrike in Zardana village in Idlib killed at least 35 and injured dozens more, marking it one of the deadliest incidents in Idlib in 2018 thus far. The attack was a “double tap,” meaning the planes returned to bomb the...
The Politicization of Death in Gaza
On Saturday June 2nd, thousands of people grieved together at the funeral of a Palestinian medic who was killed by the Israeli Defense Forces one day prior at the border fence of Gaza. A woman by the name of Razan al-Najjar was just 21-years old...