{"id":244241,"date":"2026-08-11T04:44:11","date_gmt":"2026-08-11T04:44:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/244241\/"},"modified":"2026-08-11T04:44:11","modified_gmt":"2026-08-11T04:44:11","slug":"kurds-placed-under-lockdown-in-syria-as-flags-burnt-by-protestors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/244241\/","title":{"rendered":"Kurds placed under lockdown in Syria as flags burnt by protestors"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Syrian city of Kobani, also known as Ayn al-Arab, was placed under curfew Monday night, the country\u2019s Internal Security Department announced after Kurdish<\/a> protesters attacked several government-affiliated locations.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Aleppo\u2019s Media Directorate said that internal security forces had been deployed.<\/p>\n

The curfew was announced \u201cout of concern for the safety of citizens and to preserve security and stability\u201d after unrest continued Monday night in a number of Kurdish areas.<\/p>\n

Kurds in the Syrian city of Kobani reportedly burned a Syrian flag in front of a government office in Aleppo<\/a>, Israeli media reported.<\/p>\n

According to the Hasakah Media Directorate, groups attacked internal security headquarters in the cities of Hasakah and Qamishli, both of which contain a large number of Kurds.<\/p>\n

“In the city of Al-Hasakah, those groups removed the flag of the Syrian Arab Republic<\/a> from one of the internal security headquarters and assaulted it,” said the directorate in a post on X\/Twitter on Tuesday morning.<\/p>\n

“Other groups attacked security personnel stationed at one of the headquarters in Al-Qamishli, causing damage to several internal security vehicles,” it added.<\/p>\n

As a result,” it said, “internal security forces reinforced their presence at several points in the two cities, aiming to contain the tension, control the security situation, and preserve the safety of citizens while protecting public and private property.”<\/p>\n

Kurds have a complicated relationship with Syria’s new leadership following Bashar al-Assad’s loss of power in December 2024. Within months of President Ahmed al-Sharaa’s<\/a> takeover, the new Syrian government effectively took control of the US-backed, Kurdish-led, Autonomous Administration of North-East Syria.<\/p>\n

Since then, sectarian tensions have become more heated, and serious attacks on national and ethnic minorities have occured.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Syrian city of Kobani, also known as Ayn al-Arab, was placed under curfew Monday night, the country\u2019s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":244242,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[30],"tags":[672,10291,3927,887,670,277,2559,95,10292,61118],"class_list":["post-244241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-syria","tag-ahmed-al-sharaa","tag-alawite","tag-aleppo","tag-bashar-assad","tag-damascus","tag-kurds","tag-rojava-kurdistan","tag-syria","tag-syrian-druze","tag-syrian-rebels"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/117075054538067038","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244241","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=244241"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244241\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/244242"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=244241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=244241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=244241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}