Hawar News Agency Plan - September 18, 2026

A number of intellectuals in Qamishlo expressed their rejection of the Education Ministry’s decision in the transitional government to allocate only three weekly classes to Kurdish, stressing that mother-tongue education represents a fundamental right of peoples and that the decision does not reflect the scale of the Kurdish people’s sacrifices and aspirations for a new Syria. (Photos and video attached.)

Displaced people from 15 villages and towns in the northern and northwestern countryside of Hama are awaiting their return home amid difficult humanitarian and economic conditions. They have complained that their lands, which they own, continue to be used for investment, while government authorities have spoken of supporting the return of displaced people and improving services without announcing a specific mechanism to address the situation of these villages so far.

Sixteen-year-old actor Dilshaz Hamo won the Best Kurdish Actor award for his role in the film Birako Heval (Comrade Brako), which received three awards at the sixth Sulaymaniyah International Film Festival. He said his experience in the film made him feel that he had become part of the tragedy that befell the Yazidi people, stressing that art can serve as a means of introducing the Kurdish people to the world. (Photos and video attached.)

Reactions rejecting the Education Ministry’s decision to reduce Kurdish-language classes to three per week continue in Kobani. Students and mothers are demanding guarantees of their right to full education in their mother tongue and that this right be enshrined in the Syrian Constitution. (Photos and video attached.)

Female students and their families in Derik rejected the Syrian Education Ministry’s decision to allocate three weekly classes to teaching Kurdish, calling for the continuation of education in their mother tongue. (Photos and video attached.)

Thirty years have not been enough for Hozan Amin to grow accustomed to horses. Every day he spends among them rekindles the passion he has carried since childhood. He inherited his love for horses and their breeding from his father and grandfather, and today he continues to care for around 40 horses at his farm north of Derik, holding on to a family heritage that financial burdens and rising breeding costs have failed to make him abandon. (Photos and video attached.)

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