Young women guard the Asayish (Kurdish intelligence agency) headquarters
in Tel Tamer, where Islamic State militants (ISIS) had earlier attacked a
string of Assyrian villages along the Khabur River, kidnapping at least
220.
"Welcome to Rojava," the border official says as she hands back my passport and offers me a sweet-smelling jonquil plucked from the small vase on her counter. Along with a family of refugees, I have just crossed the border from Iraqi Kurdistan into north-eastern Syria, taking a boat across the fast-flowing Tigris River that forms the frontier between the two countries.
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