Tuesday, March 24, 2015

Kurds unite to build Kurdistan in defiance of Islamic State

Young women guard the Asayish (Kurdish intelligence agency) headquarters in Tel Tamer, where Islamic State militants had earlier attacked a string of Assyrian villages along the Khabur River, kidnapping at least 220. 
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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