Aymenn Jawad al-Tamimi is a student at Brasenose College, Oxford University, and a Shillman-Ginsburg Fellow at the Middle East Forum. Fadel al-Kifa’ee is an Iraqi political analyst. https://www.newsdeeply.com/syria/contributor/aymenn-jawad-al-tamimi-and-fadel-al-kifaee/rss en Religious & Ethnic Groups Wed, 06 Nov 2013 00:00:00 +0000 Aymenn Jawad Al-Tamimi and Fadel al-Kifa’ee https://www.newsdeeply.com/syria/community/2013/11/06/the-fall-of-yaroubiya-to-the-ypg-in-context https://www.newsdeeply.com/syria/community/2013/11/06/the-fall-of-yaroubiya-to-the-ypg-in-context The small town of Yaroubiya in northeastern Syria (Hasakah governorate) on the border with Iraq recently came to the media’s attention in light of the takeover of the locality by the YPG, a Kurdish militia affiliated with the Democratic Union Party (PYD).