26.02.2026, 18:00 CET UPDATE – Hostage families call for action to ask the liberation of hostages
Yesterday in the city of Qamishlo hundreds of family members of SDF fighters detained in the prisons of the jihadist regime demonstrated to ask their liberation. ANHA’s agency reported the words of one of the protesters, Youssef Kouti: “We stand now before the United Nations headquarters, which has not fulfilled its role or duty toward the peoples of the region, and before our people whose blood has been shed, who have sacrificed their lives and whose hearts have burned with grief. We stand before a United Nations that ignores its own laws and principles. Since January 6, and since the treacherous attack by two states, with the support of the entire world, on the neighborhoods of Sheikh Maqsoud and Ashrafiye, followed by the extension of attacks to Dayr Hafir, Maskanah, Raqqa, and Tepqa, the Turkish state and the interim government and their cells have not adhered to the agreements and have placed our sons under a suffocating siege.”
Yazidi risk genocide again
12 years later the brutal genocide in the city on Shengal, there is the strong risk that this can happen again. The Iraqi army is stepping up its activities in the area, increasing the number of checkpoints within the city and demanding disarmament. For this reason, the people of Shengal have declared that they will not surrender their right to self-defence to anyone, as they are fully aware of this policy and its dangers. The internationalist solidarity is essential to prevent another genocide.
Syrian Interim governement’s military sites got target in Deir ez-Zor
It was reported by SOHR that armed men, probably affiliated with ISIS, targeted military and security positions belonging to the Syrian regime in the eastern Deir ez-Zor countryside. An un unidentified gunmen opened fire with machine guns on the headquarters of the 86th Division in the city of Albu Kamal. There are no information about any casualities or material damages. Another attack took place on a security center in the town of Sousa in the Eastern Deir-ez-Zor countryside.
The journalist Elah Mohammad has been arrested by iranian regime for the second time.
Local mediad sources stated that Elah Mohammad has been arrested in the last days without any official motivation given by the authorities or any formal charges.
Mohammad has been in prison for 17 months in 2022 after she was participating to a journalist investigation about the murder of the Kurdish young woman Jina Amini on Septemer 29, 2022.
This case is just one of hundreds of the arrests without reason that the Iranian regime does every year.