Turkish-backed Syrian group cuts off water to Hasakah - Al-Monitor: The Middle Eastʼs leading independent news source since 2012

Khaled al-Khateb

Khaled al-Khateb

Oct 8, 2022

A girl walks while holding water containers in her hands and mouth at the Washukanni camp for the internally displaced near the town of Tuwaynah, near the city of Hasakah, Syria, Oct. 8, 2020. — A girl walks while holding water containers in her hands and mouth at the Washukanni camp for the internally displaced near the town of Tuwaynah, near the city of Hasakah, Syria, Oct. 8, 2020. — Delil Souleiman/AFP via Getty Images

Syrian women whose families fled from shellings in the southern Idlib and Aleppo countryside carry buckets of water, January 22, 2018.

Turkish-controlled Syrian region faces water crisis

Khaled al-Khateb

Khaled al-Khateb

Authorities in northeast Syria seek alternatives due to Turkish disruption of water supplies

Akhin Ahmed

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

Turkey, Russia pressure SDF to restore electricity to northeast Syria

Mohammed Hardan

Mohammed Hardan

A vehicle belonging to Turkey-backed Syrian rebel fighters is parked next to a Turkish military bulldozer in the Syrian town of Ras al Ain, as seen from the Turkish border town of Ceylanpinar, in Sanliurfa province, Turkey, October 30, 2019. REUTERS/Kemal Aslan - RC121F436090

Turkey-backed forces accused of cutting water to Syrian Kurdish-run region

Amberin Zaman

In London, reporting on geopolitics, minorities, human rights, culture