Hawar News Agency Plan – 18/1/ 2026

Journalist Sterk Klo commemorated the martyr Zalal Zagros, saying: “In her personality, the bond between the struggle for life was embodied, and her message will remain alive in the struggle of women. She taught us the meaning of resistance for the homeland and for women.” (Attached with photos and video)

Imams and mosque preachers in al-Hasakah called for unity and civil peace, rejecting hatred and promoting coexistence. They warned against politicized media and foreign interventions seeking to ignite discord among the components of Syrian society. (Attached with photos and video)

A civilian taxi driver from the Sheikh Maqsoud neighborhood in Aleppo gave a lengthy testimony about the massacre he personally witnessed in Sheikh Maqsoud and Ashrafiyeh, affirming that what happened recalls the Anfal and Halabja crimes committed against the Kurds in the 1980s. He noted that funeral processions of civilians were spread across the streets of Sheikh Maqsoud, while the fate of thousands of abductees remains unknown. (Attached with photos and video)

Talal Mohammed, President of the Kurdistan Democratic Peace Party, criticized the decree issued by the head of the interim authority regarding the Kurdish language and culture, stressing that it does not meet the aspirations of the Kurdish people nor reflect their struggle and sacrifices. He called for a return to the March 10 Agreement and for drafting a consensual constitution that guarantees the rights of all components.(Attached with photos and video)

Observers confirmed that the interim government’s policies in Damascus—based on denying Syria’s diversity and marginalizing its components—will lead to an expansion of violence and division in the country. Meanwhile, Iran faces a grim fate amid an internal crisis accompanied by external threats. (Attached with photos)

On the anniversary of the 2018 attacks by the Turkish occupation and its mercenaries on Afrin, residents of the Euphrates Canton will take to the streets in condemnation, coinciding with mercenary attacks on the Sheikh Maqsoud and Ashrafiyeh neighborhoods and crimes committed against civilians there. The demonstration will start from Women’s Square at 12:00. (Attached with photos and video)

Residents of Qamishlo, Amuda, Tel Kocher, Tel Tamer, al-Darbasiyah, Karkê Lêgê, Derik, and Jal Agha in al-Jazira Canton will hold marches in support of the Syrian Democratic Forces and in condemnation of the attacks and crimes committed by the interim government’s mercenaries, at 11:00 and 12:00. (Attached with photos and video)

Students of the Health Institute in al-Hasakah will organize a protest stand to condemn the attacks by the interim government’s mercenaries on the Syrian Democratic Forces, at the institute in the al-Aziziyah neighborhood, at 12:00. (Attached with photos and video)

The sit-in and hunger strike in front of the International Coalition base continue for the eighth day, denouncing the coalition’s silence regarding the crimes committed in Sheikh Maqsoud and Ashrafiyeh and the attacks carried out by the interim government’s mercenaries on the region. (Attached with photos and video)

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