Paweł Pieniążek
2 July 2018
Asia, Syria
Two versions of the UN
The Human Rights Council has abstained from publishing numerous facts about the use of chemical weapons by the Syrian government.
25 June 2018
Asia, Syria
Assad’s strange declarations
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has once again announced that he is considering starting negotiations on the future of Syria with the Syrian Democratic Forces. Kurdish politicians say that they have not received any proposals.
18 June 2018
Asia, Iraq
Will the Iraqis vote again?
A month has gone since the parliamentary elections and still there are no final results.
11 June 2018
Asia, Syria
What does Turkey want to achieve in Manbij?
Contrary to previous Turkish announcements, Manbij future is uncertain.
1 June 2018
Asia, Syria
The Battle of Damascus is finally over
The war had started seven years ago, and the Syrian government finally managed to gain control over the territories near the capital of the country. ISIS has recently been defeated in Yarmouk.
24 May 2018
Asia, Syria
Ramadan begins
The month is spent by Muslims fasting during the daylight hours from dawn to sunset.
21 May 2018
Asia, Iraq
Iraqis (don’t) go to vote
This is the first parliamentary election after ISIS was defeated in Iraq.
11 May 2018
Asia, Syria
The oil in Syria means conflict
The former ISIS territories become a field of another fights
8 May 2018
Asia, Syria
A diversionary war between Iran and Israel
An increasingly harsh confrontation between two Middle East powers is going on in Syria right now.
25 April 2018
Asia, Syria
ISIS does not give up fighting
The jihadists still resist despite so many world leaders’ declarations that ISIS is over.
20 April 2018
Asia, Syria
Ghouta was taken over by the regime forces but the war is still ongoing
The days between the chemical attack in Duma and the military response of the USA, Great Britain and France were full of tension. The western countries announced that they were preparing to attack and accused the regime of the President Bashar al-Assad of using the chemical weapons. On the other hand, Russia, which supports the […]
17 April 2018
Asia, Syria
I had to leave my home once again
Rodi was running away from war to Afrin four years ago.
10 April 2018
Asia, Syria
Confusion about Manbij
Turkey is making threats that it will attack other cities controlled by Kurdish militias. After Turkish forces had taken , Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoǧan repeated that this is not the end of the military offensive in northern Syria. is about to be the first aim. Erdoǧan also mentioned other Syrian cities controlled by the […]
13 March 2018
Asia, Syria
The escape from Afrin
Dozens of injured people are brought to the hospital in Afrin every day.
10 March 2018
Asia, Syria
Afrin descends to basements
Turkish troops and its supporting militias are getting closer to the city.
5 March 2018
Asia, Syria
Civilian tragedy in Afrin and east Ghouta continues
At least 2595 people (including over 1000 civilians and 373 children) died in Syria in February. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reports that almost two thirds of the death toll is the aftermath of bombings in . Fierce battles are also taking place in . The situation has not changed after the 30-day ceasefire […]
26 February 2018
Asia, Syria
Eastern Ghouta is a “hell on Earth”
520 people have died in eastern Ghouta since February 18th. It was the aftermath of the regime’s air raids on this territory controlled by the anti-government forces. Ghouta is located 15 kilometers west of Damascus, the country’s capital, and inhabited by almost 400,000 people. The Syrian army has continued the siege of this area since […]
13 February 2018
Asia, Syria
Where are the ISIS fighters?
About 40,000 people from around the world came to Syria and Iraq a few years ago with guns in their hands to support the making of a self-proclaimed caliphate. Nowadays the fate of most of them is unknown.
6 February 2018
Asia, Syria
No breakthrough for Syria in Sochi
The peace talks in Sochi were supposed to show that dialogue is possible. According to the Russian president, Vladimir Putin, they were to yield a breakthrough and prove that all sides of the conflict can start a discussion. Unlike the talks in Geneva (ongoing since 2012), the Sochi negotiations were also supposed to be effective. […]
29 January 2018
Asia, Syria
Syria: Operation Olive Branch claims 200 lives
In response to the Turkish aggression Avêsta Xabûr, a Kurdish woman, committed a suicide attack by blowing herself up. One tank was destroyed and at least Turkish soldiers died. According to one version, she used a grenade. Other versions, popularized by some of the Kurdish media, claim that the 20-year-old had explosives tied to her […]
22 January 2018
Asia, Syria
Turkey attacks Afrin
The Kurd-dominated region of Afrin in northern Syria is currently targeted by Turkish air raids. Turkey has also announced that it is going to attack the city of Manbij. The first planes that initiated the attacks on the Kurdish militias of and appeared over the Afrin on January 20st 2018. A day later the Turkish […]
16 January 2018
Asia, Syria
An underground Caliphate
On October 17, 2017, Raqqa was recaptured from the hands of jihadists by the troops of Syrian Democratic Forces and the with support of the Americans. The Caliphate left IEDs (Improvised Explosive Device) spread all over the self-proclaimed capital of ISIS. The jihadists left numerous underground tunnels as well. What were they used for? On […]
10 January 2018
Asia, Syria
Is there a chance for peace in Syria? Talks in Sochi will bring more questions than answers
The aim of the Syrian National Dialogue Congress (an official name for the planned meeting in Russian Sochi) is to create a draft of a new Syria constitution. Anyway, little is known about the meeting. The formula of the congress is unknown and its date has been postponed several times. Up to 1,700 people may […]
2 January 2018
Asia, Syria
Internal refugees in Syria do not see any hope of returning home
It is difficult to feel the Christmas spirit in the Al-Sad camp. The sun sets quickly and the temperature at night drops to only few degrees Celsius. The camp is in the desert, 200 kilometres from the 200,000-thousand-year-old city of Al-Hasakah, and 150 kilometres from the frontline with ISIS.
27 December 2017
Asia, Kurdistan
Bloody protests worsen the crisis in Kurdistan
Demonstrators are against pay cuts and demand a fight against corruption.
18 December 2017
Asia, Kurdistan
Kurdistan is negotiating its future
The Iraqi Kurds voted for an independent state in a referendum organized on September 25. Instead they were given dependence from an Iraqi central government.
11 December 2017
Asia, Syria
Russia tightens cooperation with the Syrian Kurds
Russian major general Yevgeny Poplavski met with Nouri Mahmoud, the spokesman for the , a Kurdish militia group. The meeting took place on 3rd of December 2017 in Al-Salihiyah, a town located in the Deir ez-Zor province. Mahmoud said: “The YPG and are always ready to fight with all forms of terror, using the support […]
5 December 2017
Asia, Syria
The Kurds build a federation
The local elections took place on December 1st, 2017 in northern Syria, where the Kurds constitute the majority. The Damascus-based regime does not recognize it.
27 November 2017
Asia, Syria
Although there is no more ‘Caliphate’, ISIS is still a potential threat
The fighters of a self-appointed ‘Caliphate’ were pushed into the desert. Some of them still remain in eastern Syria, in a small area in the west of Syria near the border with Israel, in Jordan and in western Iraq. This is less than 5 percent of the territories ISIS controlled in 2014 and 2015. However, […]
