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Ground report from North East Syria: Enduring a silent tragedy
Rojava Susan Muhammad lights a cigarette as she recounts her life story, sitting in her office within a newly built park in Qamishli, the capital of Rojava in northeast Syria. Singing a Kurdish song of revolution, she offers me a cigarette, holding out the …