On the frontline of Deir Ezzor: the last villages still held by ISIS
Crossing the Tigris river from Iraqi Kurdistan marks the entrance to the Northern Syria, a de-facto autonomous area in the north of Syria, the country martyred by seven years…
Author Archives: Marco Gombacci
Kobane: what were the people fighting for?
The city of Kobane, the northern Syrian city on the border with Turkey, still bears the signs of the war on its buildings, streets and on the faces of its…
Meet the brave Christian women fighters who defeated DAESH in Raqqa
Nisha Gewriye, commander of the HSNB (Bethnahrain Women’s Protection Forces) welcomes us holding a rifle inside the Syriac Military Council in Raqqa, Syria. Along with other women she is part of the all-female Assyrian-Syriac military organization…
Inside Raqqa: On the frontline with Christian soldiers fighting DAESH
“Fuck Raqqa, fuck Raqqa,” a young Christian soldier tells us as we enter the Christian soldiers’ headquarter inside the liberated part of Raqqa, the capital of the Islamic State. He…