Solin Muhammed Amin

Solin Muhammed Amin is a freelance Syrian journalist. Over the past ten years, she has worked with numerous international media outlets. On Twitter: @solin_amin

Syria | May 21, 2023

Intra-Kurdish tensions paralyze northeast Syria’s main border crossing

Northeast Syria’s only external border crossing closed abruptly May 17 for an unknown period, disrupting trade, medical corridors and humanitarian access to the area.

Passengers, who were stranded following the border closure due to the coronavirus pandemic, wait to cross into Iraqi Kurdistan from the Syrian side of the Semalka border crossing in northeast Syria, July 29, 2020.

Syria | Mar 8, 2023

ALM Feature

A decade into Kurdish autonomous rule, what changed for northeast Syria's women?

Since 2013, the province of Hasakah in northeastern Syria has been ruled by an autonomous administration guided by overtly feminist principles. Ten years later, what has changed for rural women? What challenges remain?

A woman dressed in traditional clothing poses for a picture while standing on a rock in the Mazqaft water reservoir in the countryside of the town of Qahtaniyah in Syria's northeastern Hasakah province close to the border with Turkey, during Syrian Kurdish celebrations on the second day of Nowruz, the Persian New Year, on March 21, 2021. (Photo by DELIL SOULEIMAN/AFP via Getty Images)

Syria | Feb 18, 2023

ALM Feature

Double blow: Syria braces for historic drought after earthquake

For the third consecutive year, delayed rains have left the land scorched and farmers reeling from the impact of a historic drought.

Sheep walk amid drought and low water levels in the Euphrates River in the western countryside of Tabqa, Raqqa governorate, Syria, Nov. 22, 2022.

Syria | Nov 29, 2022

Escalating Turkish strikes cripple civilian infrastructure across northeast Syria

Since the launch of Operation Claw-Sword, Turkish strikes have widely targeted civilian and energy infrastructure, wreaking havoc and paralyzing economic life in northeast Syria.

Syria | Oct 10, 2022

Syrian farmers trapped by 'Erdogan's wall'

Military unrest combined with drought is making it much harder to draw a living from the soil along the Turkish-Syrian border.

Solin Muhammed Amin

Intra-Kurdish tensions paralyze northeast Syria’s main border crossing

A decade into Kurdish autonomous rule, what changed for northeast Syria's women?

Double blow: Syria braces for historic drought after earthquake

Escalating Turkish strikes cripple civilian infrastructure across northeast Syria

Syrian farmers trapped by 'Erdogan's wall'

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Turkey scholar Howard Eissenstat on the dynamics of Erdogan's enduring success

Solin Muhammed Amin

Intra-Kurdish tensions paralyze northeast Syria’s main border crossing

A decade into Kurdish autonomous rule, what changed for northeast Syria's women?

Double blow: Syria braces for historic drought after earthquake

Escalating Turkish strikes cripple civilian infrastructure across northeast Syria

Syrian farmers trapped by 'Erdogan's wall'

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Turkey scholar Howard Eissenstat on the dynamics of Erdogan's enduring success