Kurdish forces blame Turkey for Euphrates River water drop in northeast Syria - Al-Monitor: The Middle Eastʼs leading independent news source since 2012

Khaled al-Khateb

Khaled al-Khateb

Mar 11, 2021

Syrians cross the Euphrates River from the city of Raqqa to the countryside villages south of the city on ferries due to the destruction of the bridge connecting the two areas, Syria, Oct. 15, 2018. — Delil Souleiman/AFP via Getty Images

Members of the US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), made up of an alliance of Arab and Kurdish fighters, look toward the Jaabar Castle as they sit on a boat at Lake Assad, an enormous reservoir created by the Tabqa dam, on April 29, 2017.

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Khaled al-Khateb

Khaled al-Khateb

A man tries to fix electrical wires in the Salahuddin neighborhood, Aleppo, Syria, Jan. 27, 2014.

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This picture shows a view of the reservoir of the Mujib Dam, the main water supply to Amman, in Madaba governorate, Jordan, April 20, 2021.

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