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كمال شيخو

مدنيّون فارّون من دير الزور السوريّة: الألغام تحدّد مصير حياتهم

Kamal Sheikho

An internally displaced boy sits on the ground near a school in the village of al-Heesha in Raqqa district after it was captured from Islamic State, north of Raqqa city, Syria November 15, 2016. REUTERS/Rodi Said - RTX2TU3Q

لاجئو مدينة الرقّة في تركيا... عين على التحرير وتفاؤل مشوب بالحذر

Kamal Sheikho

Men that fled areas of clashes surrender to Syrian Democratic Forces(SDF) fighters north of Raqqa city, Syria March 8, 2017. REUTERS/Rodi Said - RTS12102

في سوريا... تنظيم الدولة الإسلاميّة محاصر في مناطق منفصلة

Kamal Sheikho

A Syrian refugee mother puts her baby to stroller in Nizip refugee camp, near the Turkish-Syrian border in Gaziantep province, Turkey, November 30, 2016. REUTERS/Umit Bektas - RTSU1P6

ردود فعل السوريّين المقيمين في تركيا حول المنطقة الآمنة

Kamal Sheikho

An Assyrian Church is seen damaged, due to what activists said was a bomb placed by Islamic State fighters, in tel Nusri, May 21, 2015. Picture taken May 21, 2015. REUTERS/Rodi Said - RTX1E3X3

بعد سنوات دامية من الحرب... السريان الآشوريّون في سوريا يبحثون عن وطن بديل

Kamal Sheikho

سكّان مدينة حلب الشرقيّة يختبرون قدرتهم على مواجهة الموت

Kamal Sheikho

مدنيّون لاذوا بالفرار يصفون مناطق (تنظيم الدولة الإسلاميّة) بمدن الأشباح

Kamal Sheikho

A Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) fighter looks through the scope of his weapon in Tal Samin village, north of Raqqa city, Syria November 19, 2016. REUTERS/Rodi Said - RTSSERJ

معركة الرقّة في سوريا... تحالفات محليّة وتداعيات إقليميّة

Kamal Sheikho

TOPSHOT - Turkish troops drive their anti-mine Armoured Personnel Carrier (APC) past shepherds on September 4, 2016 on a road near the Syrian village of Tuwairan, located around 2km of al-Rai, the small border town with Turkey.
Turkish forces and Syrian rebels expelled the Islamic State group from the last areas of the Syrian-Turkish border under their control on September 3, 2016, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said. / AFP / Nazeer al-Khatib (Photo credit should read NAZEER AL-KHATIB/AFP/G

سباق عسكريّ محّموم في معركة الباب شمال سّوريا

Kamal Sheikho

TOPSHOT - This picture taken around 5 kilometres west from the Turkish Syrian border city of Karkamis in the southern region of Gaziantep, on August 25, 2016 shows Turkish Army tanks driving to the Syrian Turkish border town of Jarabulus.
Turkey's army backed by international coalition air strikes launched an operation involving fighter jets and elite ground troops to drive Islamic State jihadists out of a key Syrian border town. The air and ground operation, the most ambitious launched by Turkey in the Syr

حدود سوريّة الشماليّة تشعل حروباً متعدّدة الأطراف

Kamal Sheikho

Syrian families, who fled the assault launched by Arab and Kurdish forces against Islamic State (IS) group fighters in the town of Manbij, arrive at an encampment on the outskirts of the town, 20km away from the center, on June 4, 2016.
Arab and Kurdish fighters backed by Washington have launched an assault on the strategic Manbij pocket further up the Euphrates on the Turkish border, regarded as a key entry point for foreign jihadists.
The Syrian Democratic Forces's offensive against the Manbij pocket is

قصّص مؤلمة يرويها الناجون من مدينة منبج في شمال سوريا

Kamal Sheikho

Syria Democratic Forces (SDF) ride vehicles along a road near Manbij, in Aleppo Governorate, Syria, June 25, 2016. REUTERS/Rodi Said - RTX2I6B3

معركة "منبج" تشعل حرب الحدّود بين تركّيا وأكّراد سوريا

Kamal Sheikho