The severe earthquake in February 2023 has also brought northern Syria back into the international spotlight, a region that has long gone largely unnoticed. Yet a conflict has been smouldering here for years that could escalate at any time and have international repercussions: The terrorist organisation known as IS, which had its stronghold here and has been defeated militarily, could regain strength from here.
Length 43 minutes
Mazloum Abdi | Îlham Ahmed | Newroz Ahmed | Kristin Helberg | Thomas Schmidinger | Fatma Omer | Khalil Osman | Joe Biden | Brett McGurk | William Roebuck | Abdul Karim Omar | Zainab Mohammed