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YPG’s Mandatory Military Service Rattles Kurds
A new law stipulates that young men in the cantons of Kobani, Ifrin and Al Jazeera must enlist. Now, some have begun to flee.
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Follow via RSSA new law stipulates that young men in the cantons of Kobani, Ifrin and Al Jazeera must enlist. Now, some have begun to flee.
As women in Hassakeh take up arms against extremists, female fighters and commanders now make up as much as 30 percent of the YPG’s forces.
Thousands of Syrians have lost limbs during the country’s three-year conflict. In the Damascus suburbs, two men have opened a workshop where functioning prosthetics are fashioned out of found materials.
Providing hospital transport and digging bodies out of the rubble, Syria’s organized volunteers seek to pick up where the government and opposition officials left off.
Tens of thousands of refugee babies born during Syria’s crisis are undocumented, without passports, birth certificates, or other documents that will give them access to civil and social benefits.
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