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In three separate raids, the intelligence office in the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) of the Autonomous Administration, arrested three prominent local activists in the province of Raqqa in February 2020,…

On October 13, 2019, activists shared photos and a footage for what they said bodies of two female volunteers of the Kurdish Red Crescent who were executed by an armed…

Executive Summary On October 26, 2019, the US forces embarked on a military operation in the village of Barisha[1] in the suburbs of Idlib Province. The operation ended with the…

Introduction Barava Khalaf Farho was 21 when she was captured with her two children in 2014 by the Islamic State (IS) in Iraq’s Sinjar (also known as Shingal). she had…

On June 29, 2019, the Syrian Democratic Forces/SDF, by an endorsement from the Autonomous Administration in north-eastern Syria, has signed an action plan to end and prevent recruitment of children…

Introduction: Meditating in the endless fields of wheat-stretching as far as the eye could see- from the yard of the Yazidi House, Jihan Khairo Qasim, 19, was reliving the painful…

Civil crews, protected by armed elements of the Syrian Democratic Forces/SDF, continue to dismantle the railway, located in the north of the city of Raqqa, for unknown reasons. The process…

On 5 July, the People’s Protection Units (YPG), the Women’s Protection Units (YPJ), and the ‘Democratic Self-Administration in Rojava’ demobilized 149 children from their ranks and signed Geneva Call’s Deed…

Using and dealing drugs spread widely in al-Tabqah, Raqqa, especially among children in a proportion estimated at 20%, locals and displaced. Syrian Democratic Forces/SDF agents and officers along with some…