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Award-winning journalist reporting from the Middle East and Afghanistan for @AlMonitor, @ForeignPolicy, @newlinesmag, others.
Sep 11, 2021 11 tweets 5 min read
I have been reporting on these protests against the #SDF and the #Deir al-Zor region for years. I was one of the few to independently report from the area in 2019, a few months after the Baghouz was liberated from #IS (#ISIS).

Thread with links: Mine from 2019: "...diesel is three times as expensive in Shuhail as it is in the Kurdish-dominant north, despite the proximity of key oil fields, and that this price gouging is only one of many ways the US-backed SDF is making local residents desperate"

al-monitor.com/originals/2019…