Khaled al-Khateb

Khaled al-Khateb is a Syrian journalist and former lecturer in the Geography Department of the University of Aleppo. On Twitter: @khaleedalkhteb

Syria | Feb 10, 2023

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'We are forced to dig our mass graves': Syrians fending for themselves after earthquake

Al-Monitor has toured devastated towns in Syria, following the deadly earthquake that has killed over 3,000 Syrians. International humanitarian aid has yet to reach the area.

The photo was taken Feb. 9, 2023, after the earthquake in the town of Jindires in the countryside of Afrin, in the north of Aleppo, Syria. - Khaled al-Khateb

Syria | Nov 15, 2022

Infighting in Turkish-backed faction leads to tension in Syria's Afrin

It seems Hayat Tahrir al-Sham lost a loyal faction after several currents with the Turkish-backed Ahrar al-Sham factions isolated the movement’s current leadership and appointed their own leader.

Fighters from the Third Legion of the Turkish-backed Free Syrian Army.

Syria | Nov 10, 2022

Syrian government aligned forces, Islamic State battle in south

Local factions that include former members of the Free Syrian Army are fighting alleged Islamic State members in southern Syria's Daraa with the support of the Syrian government.

Syria | Oct 23, 2022

Russia oversees Syrian forces’ military exercises in northwest Syria

Russia is testing the readiness of the Syrian government forces in their area of deployment on the outskirts of Idlib, in what some fear is a prelude to a wide-scale military operation to uproot the opposition in northwest Syria.

Military vehicles of a joint Russian-Turkish patrol pass through the M4 highway, which links the northern Syrian provinces of Aleppo and Latakia, near Ariha in the rebel-held northwestern Idlib province, Syria, June 10, 2020.

Syria | Oct 20, 2022

Syrian government retaliates for killing of soldiers by Islamic State

The Syrian government and Russia accused the Islamic State of blowing up a troop bus of the Syrian army’s Fourth Division in its main headquarters near Damascus.

A general shot taken on June 30, 2015, shows a neighborhood in the Syrian capital, Damascus.

Syria | Oct 17, 2022

Islamic State claims over 125 people killed in Syrian operations in 2 months

The Islamic State announced the largest number of operations it has so far carried out in the span of two months in the countryside of Deir ez-Zor, which is under the control of Kurdish forces in northeast Syria.

People take part in a funeral in the Kurdish-majority city of Qamishli in Syria's northeastern Hasakah province.

Syria | Oct 12, 2022

Islamic State terrorizes business owners in northeast Syria

Islamic State cells have been active in the areas controlled by the Kurdish forces in the countryside of Deir ez-Zor, forcing business owners to pay taxes under the pretext of zakat.

A fighter from the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) walks past shops with their fronts painted with the Arabic phrases "beware a sniper" and "caliphate state," after the Kurdish-led and US-backed SDF retook the city from Islamic State fighters, Hajin, Deir ez-Zor province, Syria, Jan. 27, 2019.

Syria | Oct 8, 2022

Turkish-backed Syrian group cuts off water to Hasakah

Hasakah residents in northeast Syria have relied on buying water from private suppliers as their underground wells have dried up, while the Turkish-backed factions suspended pumping operations from the only water station supplying the city.

A girl walks while holding water containers in her hands and mouth at the Washukanni camp for the internally displaced near the town of Tuwaynah, near the city of Hasakah, Syria, Oct. 8, 2020.

Syria | Oct 3, 2022

Russian warplanes bomb FSA camp in Syria's Idlib

As Syrian and Russian attacks escalate in Idlib, the FSA-affiliated Jaysh al-Izza denied Russian reports that an airstrike at one of their sites in a displaced camp in the north killed some of their commanders.

Smoke billows following Russian airstrikes near Syria's Bab al-Hawa border crossing with Turkey, Sept. 27, 2022.

Syria | Sep 30, 2022

Al-Bab residents demand houses back from Turkish-backed forces in Syria

Demonstrations were organized against the Turkey-backed Free Syrian Army in the city of al-Bab, during which protesters demanded that the factions return their houses and farms that had been seized after the FSA took control of the city in 2017.

Khaled al-Khateb

'We are forced to dig our mass graves': Syrians fending for themselves after earthquake

Infighting in Turkish-backed faction leads to tension in Syria's Afrin

Syrian government aligned forces, Islamic State battle in south

Russia oversees Syrian forces’ military exercises in northwest Syria

Syrian government retaliates for killing of soldiers by Islamic State

Islamic State claims over 125 people killed in Syrian operations in 2 months

Islamic State terrorizes business owners in northeast Syria

Turkish-backed Syrian group cuts off water to Hasakah

Russian warplanes bomb FSA camp in Syria's Idlib

Al-Bab residents demand houses back from Turkish-backed forces in Syria

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Khaled al-Khateb

'We are forced to dig our mass graves': Syrians fending for themselves after earthquake

Infighting in Turkish-backed faction leads to tension in Syria's Afrin

Syrian government aligned forces, Islamic State battle in south

Russia oversees Syrian forces’ military exercises in northwest Syria

Syrian government retaliates for killing of soldiers by Islamic State

Islamic State claims over 125 people killed in Syrian operations in 2 months

Islamic State terrorizes business owners in northeast Syria

Turkish-backed Syrian group cuts off water to Hasakah

Russian warplanes bomb FSA camp in Syria's Idlib

Al-Bab residents demand houses back from Turkish-backed forces in Syria

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