Autonomous Administration

The SDF has operated several detention camps holding suspected ISIS members and their families
Post-Assad Syria
MENA
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Kurdish-led Northeast Syria urges IS repatriations amid unrest

The Kurdish-led northeast Syrian administration has urged IS repatriations as the SDF is accused of conscripting Arab youths amid new clashes with rivals.

The New Arab Staff
29 September, 2025
Mazloum Abdi arrived in Damascus on Tuesday evening [Getty file image]
Post-Assad Syria
MENA
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Syrian Kurdish leader meets Sharaa amid doubts over agreement

The New Arab Staff
09 July, 2025
A Syrian Kurdish fighter stands guard on the road leading to Qamishli's airport in northeastern Syria on December 8, 2024
Post-Assad Syria
MENA
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Syrian govt slams Kurdish move to reopen Qamishli Airport

The New Arab Staff
23 June, 2025
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The New Arab Voice

Podcast

Trouble up North

Hugo Goodridge
26 September, 2024
Syrian Democratic Forces
MENA
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Syria Kurdish-led forces free 33 IS 'collaborators'

The New Arab Staff
19 June, 2023
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Autonomous Administration
MENA
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Syria's Kurds to begin trials for IS detainees

The New Arab Staff & Agencies
11 June, 2023
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MENA
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Syria Kurdish authority expects better wheat yield than 2022

William Christou
06 June, 2023
Syrian refugees
MENA
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Syria Kurds say ready to accept Syrian refugees from Lebanon

The New Arab Staff
01 May, 2023
Eid al-Fitr
Society
Live Story

Eid a chance for family reunion in northeast Syria

The New Arab Staff

The New Arab (From the Arabic Edition)

20 April, 2023
The Kurdish-led autonomous administration and the associated SDF control most of northeastern Syria [Getty]
Syria
MENA
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Syria Kurds seek talks with Assad amid Arab normalisation

The New Arab Staff & Agencies
20 April, 2023
Turkey-Syria earthquake
MENA
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Quake damage to Turkish dams sees water flow to NE Syria

The New Arab (From the Arabic Edition)
17 February, 2023
Syria
MENA
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Thousands of alleged IS members could face trial in NE Syria

The New Arab Staff
04 October, 2022
Syria
MENA
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Two northeast Syria officials killed in Turkish airstrike

The New Arab Staff
28 September, 2022
Syria
MENA
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Drone strikes increase in Syria as Turkey invasion looms

William Christou
22 August, 2022
The Al-Hol camp is notorious for poor conditions and violence [Getty]
Syria
MENA
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Syrian Kurdish forces stop escape attempt from al-Hol camp

The New Arab Staff
03 August, 2022
Syria
MENA
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Protests as NE Syria authorities announce two-week power cut

The New Arab Staff
14 July, 2022
Syria
MENA
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Syrian Kurds, regime cooperate to fend off Turkish attack

William Christou
05 July, 2022
Autonomous Administration
MENA
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Raqqa rations water amid major shortage in northeast Syria

William Christou
20 June, 2022
Syria
MENA
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Damascus and Kurdish authorities compete for wheat

William Christou
24 May, 2022
Sheikh Maqsoud, a neighbourhood in Syria's city of Aleppo, from a high vantage point
Syria
MENA
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Aleppo: Syrian regime continues siege of Kurdish areas

The New Arab Staff
19 April, 2022
northeast Syria
MENA
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Syrian-Kurdish authority continues press crackdown

The New Arab Staff
07 February, 2022