Hawar News Agency Plan – 17, 11, 2025

A number of residents of Tabqa Canton stressed the importance of social solidarity and harmony among all components to protect society from attempts to undermine the social fabric and stir sectarian and ethnic strife, noting that continued unity among the components is the true guarantee for the region’s stability and security. (Photos and video attached.)

The Hercules checkpoint in the western countryside of Homs continues to impose a new wave of extortion and abuses against residents, forcing young men to buy and hand over weapons under threat, amid a complete absence of authorities and a rise in theft and illegal levies. This situation places families between submission or flight, deepening fear and insecurity in the region.

A member of the Union of Lawyers for leader Ocalan and the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) commented on the issue of the right to hope and the isolation imposed on the leader, saying: “leader Abdullah Ocalan has taken historic steps, but the Turkish state and its parliament take no action. If the right to hope were granted and the isolation lifted, peace would prevail and all problems would be solved.” (Photos and video attached.)

For thirty years, Khalasa Jalabi Ahmed has continued her dedication to serving people, turning herbs into medicine and hardships into motivation. (Photos and video attached.)

Armenian artisan and artist Samir Bamboghjian preserves the craft he inherited from his family six decades ago. Despite health conditions that forced him to reduce his workload, he continues to make musical instruments and is now passing this craft on to his son to carry on the family’s artistic legacy. (Photos and video attached.)

The Zenobia Women’s Gathering Council in the cantons of Raqqa, Tabqa, and Deir ez-Zor is organizing a series of separate meetings and a training course for men as part of activities marking the campaign against violence against women, at 10:00. A three-day training course for men also begins at the headquarters of the Future Syria Party in the town of Sirin in Euphrates Canton, at 09:00.

As part of the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women, the Kongra Star organization is holding a public meeting in the Workers’ Hall in the city of Rimelan at 12:00. The Women's Council of the Democratic Union Party is also holding a meeting in the town of Abira in the countryside of Jal Agha at 10:00. (Photos and video attached.)

The Rojava International Film Festival continues its activities on its fifth day, with a lecture at 10:00 on “Shared Stories and Free Cinema.” In the evening, several films will be screened on the stage of the Mohammed Sheikho Center for Culture and Art in Qamishlo at 16:00. (Photos and video attached.)

The People’s Municipality of Tal Brak in Jazira Canton is holding its annual meeting to review the work accomplished in 2025 and discuss the 2026 general plan, at 10:00. (Photos and video attached.)

Residents of Qamishlo city in Jazira Canton, North and East Syria, will take to the streets in a march calling for the freedom of leader Abdullah Öcalan, starting from the Soni Roundabout at 11:00. (Photos and video attached.)

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