This Week in Northern Syria

Conflict and politics of the Syrian-Turkish borderlands

By Alexander McKeever

M4 Dispatch

Notes and photographs from a recent drive along the M4 from Aleppo to Qamishli

Jun 21•Alexander McKeever

Afrin Dispatch

Notes and photographs from recent day trips to the city

Jun 19•Alexander McKeever

This Week in Northern Syria [24.2026]

June 10 - 16: 8th Afrin IDP convoy, tensions in Kobani countryside, US company to take over northeastern oil fields, and more...

Jun 18•Alexander McKeever

This Week in Northern Syria [23.2026]

June 3 - 9: Latest integration news, certificate exams begin, economic/anti-SDF protests in Hasakah, and more...

Jun 11•Alexander McKeever

This Week in Northern Syria [22.2026]

May 27 - June 2: Flooding in al-Raqqah and Deir ez-Zour, Elham Ahmad visits Afrin & Sheikh Maqsoud, Gov't releases 28 YPJ detainees, and more...

Jun 4•Alexander McKeever

Sheikh Maqsoud Dispatch

Notes and photographs from a recent walk through the former SDF enclave

Jun 2•Alexander McKeever

This Week in Northern Syria [21.2026]

May 20 - 26: al-Hasakah and Kobani 'elections,' Euphrates water level surges, al-Raqqah 'other side of the tracks' protests, and more...

May 28•Alexander McKeever

Recent Mazloum 'Abdi interviews

On the status of integration, the January battles, and his experiences within the PKK and over the course of Syria's civil war

May 26•Alexander McKeever

This Week in Northern Syria [20.2026]

May 13 - 19: Damascus-appointed official 'takes over' Kobani, electoral body membership announced, Gov't wheat purchasing price sparks protests, and…

May 21•Alexander McKeever

This Week in Northern Syria [19.2026]

May 6 - 12: Judicial integration stalls over signage, two Afrini IDP convoys return, 232 SDF detainees released by Gov't, and more...

May 14•Alexander McKeever

The ongoing sign controversy

A look into the institutional banners and signs installed since the January 29th agreement

May 9•Alexander McKeever

This Week in Northern Syria [18.2026]

April 29 - May 5: Protest of new customs regime at Semalka,

May 7•Alexander McKeever

This Week in Northern Syria [17.2026]

April 22 - 28: 'Issam al-Buwaydani released from UAE, updates on judicial integration, the emptied villages of the 'Peace Spring' region, and more...

Apr 30•Alexander McKeever

This Week in Northern Syria [16.2026]

April 15 - 21: Controversy over Hasakah courts, Semalka crossing hand over, US withdraws from last 'major base,' and more...

Apr 23•Alexander McKeever