Assad tells Kurdish officials he wants to start negotiations and resolve the Kurdish issue
Outline of results of the recent Syrian National Coalition elections
Residents report tension in the city amid PYD raids and abductions
Decision to lift Syria sanctions will have little effect
Every day, the activists from an organization called Shawishka meet in a small apartment in one of the neighbourhoods of Qamishli, a majority Kurdish city in Syria’s Hassaka Governorate, to come up with new projects to empower women.
Economic realities make sectarian statelets improbable.
Islamist radicals may be gaining strength, but the spirit that sparked this uprising survives in the unlikeliest of places.
