The Dam Administration in North and East Syria has announced its achievements for the first half of 2025, which included maintenance of equipment, testing of heat exchangers, replacement of transformers, and rehabilitation of ventilation networks, alongside ongoing efforts to restore Tishrin Dam.
The water shortage in villages around Mount Kizwan negatively affects women. Despite the water shortage, women find ways to make their villages green.
The Women’s Support Center opened in Raqqa consists of departments of education, communication, culture and arts, and sports.
After the decision by the Peoples’ Assembly to restructure the commune and council system, work has begun on 2,069 communes in the Canton of Cizirê.
Environmentalist Güner Yanlıç said that they are “just as opposed to solar plant projects as we are to dams.”
The stories of women, who maintain their life with hope in Deir ez-Zor despite all the challenges faced by them, are inspiring. They make big changes in the city by developing small-scale projects.
Rojava Information Center interviewed figures and structures associated with Islam in North and East Syria. They included members of the Democratic Islam Congress and Delal Khelil from the Council of Religions and Beliefs, both structures which RIC previously interviewed in 2020. RIC also spoke to Sheikh Murshid Khaznawi, the son of Sufi Sheikh Maashouq Khaznawi, who was tortured and assassinated by the former Ba’ath government in 2005.
“90% of trees on Mount Kizwan were cut down in four years. We must work together to reforest the mount,” said Meha Eid El-Hilû, who lives in a village close to Mount Kizwan.
Collective creation offers resistance and hope by prioritising mutual understanding over self-expression.
The Women’s house in Raqqa has become a trusted center that resolves family issues through dialogue.
The municipality of Muş, won by the DEM Party, plans to establish a City Women’s Assembly to address women’s issues through women’s perspectives.
Jinwar is home to many different women that have decided to join the community for a variety of different reasons. Something that unites all of them is their search for a free life in communality and the wish to learn, to strengthen and develop as women. Some of them have lost their husbands in the war, or others have freed themselves from domestic violence or forced marriage. There are also Yazidi women who have begun a new life here after they were liberated from the enslavement of ISIS.
