This Week in Northern Syria [11.2025]

March 12-18: the Constitutional declaration, a Turkish strike kills 9 civilians, the new Syrian military's presence in Libya, and more...

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This week marked a number of anniversaries commemorated in Syria by different actors, including:

• March 12, 2004: the Kurdish uprising (Serhildan) in al-Qamishli, sparked by anti-Kurdish violence at a soccer math (DAANES, ENKS statements)

  

  An ENKS march in eastern al-Qamishli (source)

• March 15, 2011: the start of the Syrian revolution marked by an anti-regime protest of several dozen people in Damascus (Syria Direct on the festivities in Damascus this year)