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Solin Muhammed Amin

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.

Turkey 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.

Daily workers harvest onions near Turkey’s border wall with Syria, Sept. 29, 2022.

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Arab Israelis protest over crime wave

Demonstrators shout slogans as they protest against the killing of five Arab Israelis in the village of Yafia, west of Nazareth
Agence France-Presse | AFP | Jun 9, 2023

Palestinian couple brace for east Jerusalem eviction

Palestinian couple Nora and Mustafa Sub Laban pose for a picture in their home in the walled Old City of Israeli-annexed east Jerusalem, which they are set to lose of Jewish settlers after a 45-year legal battle
by Claire Gounon | AFP | Jun 9, 2023

Latest Sudan truce begins amid civilian scepticism

Khartoum residents take advantage of a lull in fighting in the first few hours of Saturday's truce to stock up on fruit and other basic goods that have been in short supply
Agence France-Presse | AFP | Jun 9, 2023
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