Post Tagged with: "Kfar Nabel"

Prices Rise in Kfar Nabel after Closure of Bab al-Hawa Crossing

on March 10, 2014, 6:02 pm / in Transition

Hazzaa Adnan al-Hazzaa (Kfar Nabel, Syria) – From mid-January until the time of this writing, the Bab al-Hawa border crossing between Turkey and Syria has been closed and opened arbitrarily as a result of the explosion of two car bombs that claimed the lives of more than 16 people. Cars and trucks line up for several kilometers before the crossing […]

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Kfar Nabel Media Office Continues Work Despite Assassination Attempt on Director

on March 10, 2014, 5:47 pm / in Transition

Hazzaa Adnan al-Hazzaa (Kfar Nabel, Syria) - Human rights defender and director of the Kfar Nabel media office Raed al-Fares survived an assassination attempt on January 29 when he was shot by two masked men as he returned to his home from the Kfar Nabel Media Office on January 29. Doctors at the Dar al-Hikma hospital in Kfar Nabel were […]

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Aid Committees in Kfar Nabel Accused of Corruption Due to Supply Scarcity

on February 28, 2014, 5:51 pm / in Transition

Abdullah Kleido (Kfar Nabel, Syria) – Mazen is a fighter with the Islamic front from the city of Kfar Nabel. Like many others, the 32-year-old complains of not receiving aid that he desperately needs.

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Activists in Kfar Nabel held this banner when ISIS still controlled the town. Photo credit: "Protest Banners of Occupied Kfar Nabel" page on Facebook.

Secularism Appeals to Some as ISIS Withdraws from Kfar Nabel

on January 29, 2014, 2:03 pm / in Transition

Hazzaa Adnan al-Hazzaa (Kfar Nabel, Syria) - Mohammad al-Salim, a French literature student from Kfar Nabel at the University of Aleppo, is critical of much of what the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) has been doing in the various areas that have been wrested out of Baath regime control.

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A gas storehouse in Kfar Nabel. Photography by Hazzaa al-Adnan

Scarcity and Bribery Raise the Price of Gas: Hama’s “Regime” Gas Becomes “Free” in Kfar Nabel

on November 29, 2013, 11:30 am / in Transition

By Hazzaa al-Adnan (Kfar Nabel, Syria) - Shadia, a young lady from Kfar Nabel who studies law at Aleppo University, says that her father, a farmer, had to cut down five of the 20 fig trees in their modest orchard so that her mother could cook their meals over firewood instead of gas. “If things don’t get better, we’ll have […]

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