Since August, the PYD has detained dozens of activists, members and officials of the Kurdish National Council in Syria. The reason given is their participation in a funeral cortege of a Peshmerga who lost his life fighting against the Islamic State in Kurdistan Iraq. The PYD withholds all information regarding their whereabouts and their general […]
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Murderer sentenced to life imprisonment and his family expelled from the city
On October 5, the PYD-affiliated news agency ANHA (Hawar) reported about the decision taken by the “court of the people” of the Jazirah canton regarding the murder of twenty-five-year-old Falak Mohamad. On July 29, the young woman was assassinated by her husband Alan Mohamad, who is mentally fragile, right after they got married. According to […]
Continue reading Murderer sentenced to life imprisonment and his family expelled from the cityStatement regarding the terrorist attack in al-Hasakah
Kurdish National Council in Syria – Geneva Office 04 October 2016 In the evening of October 3, 2016, a suicide bomber blew himself up at a wedding of the Fatîme family in a predominantely Kurdish quarter of the city of al-Hasakah and killed at least 20 people. Another 70 were injured. Among the victims are […]
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