Following the Turkish drone strike on August 18th which targeted a UN-sponsored girls school in North and East Syria, a fifth girl has been pronounced dead from her injuries.


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Since 2011 and the beginning of what was then known as the Syrian Revolution, coming on the tail-end of the Arab spring, the Kurds of North and East Syria began to organise and came together with other ethnic and religious communities living in the region to organise themselves according to their own needs based on a localised representative democracy, throwing off years of brutally oppressive rule by the Assad regime.

Under the Assad regime, Kurds were heavily discriminated against with many activists locked away in the darkest dungeons of Assad’s torture chambers. Since the establishment of the modern state of Syria, after the Sykes Picot agreement of 1916, the Syrian government did not even recognise the existence of the Kurds.

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'Could it be the case, that desperate to establish its so-called ‘safe-zone,’ Turkey is now willing to work with the Assad regime, potentially betraying its allies in Syrian opposition groups, in order to accomplish its goal? If discussions between Ankara and Damascus continue how will the Turkish-backed groups respond, and what agreements might they reach concerning the Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria?' Robin Fleming Medya News