Kurdish families return to Afrin, Syria after years of displacement
Kurdish families are returning to Afrin, Syria after being displaced for several years. Approximately 150,000 Kurds had to flee due to the invasion and the involvement of extremist Syrian rebel groups. These groups were responsible for various abuses, including the kidnapping of Kurdish civilians.
- ▪Around 150,000 Kurds were forced to flee Afrin due to the invasion.
- ▪Syrian rebel groups involved in the conflict included extremists.
- ▪These groups committed abuses such as the kidnapping of Kurdish civilians.
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| Original publisher | The Jerusalem Post | JPost.com |
| Canonical URL | https://www.jpost.com/middle-east/article-896691 |
| Publication time | Tue, 19 May 2026 14:12:00 GMT |
| Retrieval time | 2026-05-19T11:19:57.512Z |
| Last seen | 2026-05-19T11:19:57.512Z |
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Kurdish families return to Afrin, Syria after years of displacementAfter the invasion, around 150,000 Kurds were forced to flee. The Syrian rebel groups included extremists and they were involved in abuses, including the kidnapping of Kurdish civilians.Follow us on GoogleA woman with braided hair during a solidarity demonstration in Erbil, Iraq's Kurdish region, on January 23, 2026. The symbolic gesture supports Kurdish female fighters in Syria following a viral video of a Syrian soldier bragging about cutting a fighter's braid.(photo credit: Photo by Omar Karim / Middle East Images / AFP via Getty Images)
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