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Delil Souleiman

A man stands by cut trees at the Tabqa Reserve near the village of Jaabar, in Syria's northeastern Raqa governorate, on July 11, 2023. (Delil Souleiman/AFP)
August 20, 2023, 9:13 am
War, illegal logging and climate change turn Syria’s forests into ‘barren land’
Woods on shores of Euphrates attracted tourists, provided shade and defense from dust storms, but civilians impoverished by war have cut down trees, mainly for firewood
By Delil Souleiman
Children of foreign Islamic State fighters walk in a playground at the Orkesh rehabilitation center in the countryside of Qamishli in northeastern Syria on March 7, 2023. (Photo by Delil SOULEIMAN / AFP)
March 12, 2023, 4:50 am
Syria center seeks to rehabilitate foreign children scarred by Islamic State
Opened 6 months ago, Orkesh facility houses over 50 boys with Western parents, with Kurdish authorities hoping to avoid ’emergence of a new generation of extremists’
By Delil Souleiman
Soldiers of a Russian military convoy and their US counterparts pose for pictures as their patrol routes intersect in an oil field near Syria's al-Qahtaniyah town in the northeastern Hasakah province, close to the border with Turkey, on Octobre 8, 2022. (Delil Souleiman/AFP)
October 11, 2022, 1:30 am
Russian, US troops in Syria hold their fire in rare congenial moment
Instead of zipping past each other, convoys backing opposing sides of Syrian civil war stop to chat, pose for pictures and exchange uniform patches as mementos of the interaction
By Delil Souleiman
A woman suffering from cholera receives treatment at the Al-Kasrah hospital in Syria's eastern province of Deir Ezzor, on 17, 2022 (Delil SOULEIMAN / AFP)
September 22, 2022, 9:57 am
‘We drink it anyway’: War-torn Syria’s water woes peak with cholera outbreak
Dozens have died within weeks and cases mount into the hundreds; contaminated Euphrates river, a vital source for five million people, is a major source of bacteria
By Delil Souleiman
Members of the Khabour Guards (MNK) Assyrian Syrian militia, affiliated with the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), walk in the ruins of the Assyrian Church of the Virgin Mary, which was previously destroyed by Islamic State (IS) group fighters, in the village of Tal Nasri south of the town of Tal Tamr in Syria's northeastern Hasakah province on November 15, 2019. (Delil souleiman / AFP)
November 19, 2019, 10:54 am
In northeast Syria, last Assyrians fear Turkish advance
Just 1,000 of 20,000 members of Christian minority remain in Syria after Islamic State invasion; now, the remnants of the community fear being ‘pushed into exile’
By Delil Souleiman
A convoy of ambulances evacuating fighters and injured members of the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), as a well as wounded civilians, leaves the northeastern Syrian border town of Ras al-Ain on October 20, 2019. (Nazeer Al-Khatib/AFP)
October 20, 2019, 7:36 pm
Kurdish fighters withdraw from besieged Syria town
Pullout from Ras al-Ain comes as US troops leave their largest base in north of country; Trump tweets ceasefire ‘holding up very nicely’
By Nazeer al-Khatib and Delil Souleiman
President Donald Trump accompanied by Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell of Ky., right, arrives for a Senate Republican policy lunch on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, March 26, 2019. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)
October 19, 2019, 8:33 am
McConnell rips Syria withdrawal as ‘a strategic nightmare’
As scattered fighting flares, top Republican in Congress warns that Trump’s pullout of US forces will ’embolden our enemies, and weaken important alliances’
By Delil Souleiman
A man who was injured during the ongoing Turkish offensive against Kurdish-controlled areas of northeastern Syria lies at a hospital in Tal Tamr, near the Syrian Kurdish town of Ras al-Ain, October 18, 2019. (Delil Souleiman/AFP)
October 18, 2019, 3:55 pm
Deadly Turkish airstrikes shatter deal to pause Syria offensive
Kurdish forces accuse Turkey of attacking its fighters and civilians despite US-brokered agreement with Erdogan for halt in operation to allow Kurds to withdraw
By Delil Souleiman
Syrian government soldiers chanting slogans as they pose for a group photo with a national flag and portraits of President Bashar Assad on the outskirts of the northern city of Manbij in the north of Aleppo province as government forces deploy there on October 15, 2019. (AFP)
October 16, 2019, 4:21 am
Syrian Kurds defend key town as Pence, Pompeo sent to press Turkey
Criticism of Istanbul grows amid fierce clashes in northern Syria, but Erdogan dismisses US proposal to broker a ceasefire, saying sanctions won’t halt operation
By Nazeer al-Khatib and Delil Souleiman
Syrian families fleeing the battle zone between Turkey-led forces and Kurdish fighters from the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) in and around the northern flashpoint town of Ras al-Ain on the border with Turkey, arrive along with Syrian Arab and Kurdish civilians in the city of Tal Tamr on the outskirts of Hasakeh on October 15, 2019. (Photo by Delil SOULEIMAN / AFP)
October 15, 2019, 2:52 pm
Syrian Kurds defend key border town as Turkey continues onslaught
Despite much of border being seized by Ankara in week-long operation, SDF fighters still putting up a fight in Ras al-Ain as Erdogan ignores US pressure
By Delil Souleiman and Shaun Tandon
Turkish-backed Syrian fighters walk next to Turkish army vehicles near the village of Akcakale along the border with Syria on October 11, 2019, as they prepare to take part in the Turkish-led assault on northeastern Syria. (Bakr Alkasem/AFP)
October 12, 2019, 12:43 am
Turkey vows Syria onslaught ‘won’t stop’ as US threatens sanctions
Washington warns ‘we can shut down the Turkish economy if we need to,’ as UN says over 100,000 displaced since launch of offensive against Kurds
By Nazeer al-Khatib and Delil Souleiman
Turkish-backed Syrian rebels gather in al-Bab city in the eastern countryside of Aleppo province on October 11, 2019 as they prepare to take part in Turkey's invasion of northeastern Syria. - Turkish and allied forces faced stiff Kurdish resistance as they battled to seize key border towns, on the third day of a broad offensive that sparked a civilian exodus. (Photo by Zein Al RIFAI / AFP)
October 11, 2019, 5:00 pm
Turkey pounds Syrian border towns on 3rd day of assault on Kurds, sparks exodus
At least 24 civilians and 42 soldiers killed, more than 70,000 displaced in offensive, facilitated by US withdrawal, that draws sharp international criticism
By Nazeer al-Khatib and Delil Souleiman
Shortly after the Turkish operation inside Syria had started, local residents cheer and applaud as a convoy of Turkish forces vehicles is driven through the town of Akcakale, Sanliurfa province, southeastern Turkey, at the border between Turkey and Syria, Oct. 9, 2019 (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis)
October 9, 2019, 11:28 pm
Turkey launches Syria ground assault on Kurdish forces after US troop withdrawal
Intensive bombardment of Kurdish positions by jets and artillery paves way for offensive; assault comes after Trump on Sunday announced US military pullback from border area
By Delil Souleiman and Luana Sarmini-Buonaccorsi
Alexandr Ruzmatovich Bekmirzaev, a 45-year-old Belarusian native and naturalised Irish citizen who was detained along with four other purported foreign jihadists by the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), January 11, 2019. (Delil Souleiman / AFP)
January 30, 2019, 11:43 am
Captured Irish jihadist tells of dying days of Islamic State ‘caliphate’
Muslim convert describes starvation, bombing, fleeing through minefields with women and children before being captured by Kurds in Syria
By Delil Souleiman
Banners advertising shops and clinics are pictured hanging in a street in the Syrian city of Raqqa on October 18, 2018. (Delil Souleiman/AFP)
October 19, 2018, 10:36 am
One year after IS ‘defeat,’ Syria’s Raqqa still lives in fear
Jihadists no longer control the war-ravaged city, but sleeper cells continue to terrorize the population; a new local security force looks to bring quiet
By Delil Souleiman
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