The center of Kobani, Syria is bustling, but the mood is grim. Shoppers and shop owners chat in hushed tones, trading the latest news and rumors they’ve heard about the increasingly tense and complex situation in the region.
Jwnaid Murad walked down the dairy aisle of Las Market, the 1000-square-meter grocery store he owns in New Erbil in Iraqi Kurdistan. “150 years ago, Ottomans beheaded my great grandfather a little bit south of Erbil,” he said.
Last week, Turkish President Erdogan announced the start of Operation Peace Spring, a joint operation in predominantly Kurdish northeast Syria between Turkish armed forced and Turkish-backed Free Syrian Army (FSA) factions.
Turkey launched a military operation in northeastern Syria on October 9th, targeting US-backed Kurdish forces near the Turkish-Syrian border.
TIJ journalists interview Mohamed Amrouni, age 23, a captured Islamic State member jailed in Syria …
In July 2016, American video journalist Lindsey Snell was on one of her many trips to film in war-torn Syria when she was kidnapped and held hostage by al-Qaeda militants from within the increasingly dominant Nusra faction (now known as Hay’at Tahir al- Sham, or HTS).
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