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• Thousands attend demonstration in Qamishlo to protest Turkish use of chemical weapons 

  Thousands attended the demonstration against Turkish chemical weapons attacks in Qamishlo.
• Tribute paid to children killed in Amûdê cinema fire 62 years ago  

  On 13 November 1960, 282 Kurdish children died in the cinema of Amûdê while watching a movie in solidarity with the Algerian struggle for independence. The story is one of those deeply embedded in the collective memory.
• Kobanê youth rally against isolation of Öcalan and use of chemical weapons 

  Youth from the Council of Martyrs’ Families have taken to the streets in Kobanê to protest against the Turkish state’s use of chemical weapons in Southern Kurdistan and the isolation of Kurdish leader Abdullah Öcalan.
• Former peshemerga says that silence about chemical weapons is also damaging South Kurdistan 

  Ismail Ali Ismail, one of the former executives of the KDP, said that the silence about the chemical weapons used by the Turkish occupation is also an attack on the achievements of Bashur Kurdistan.
• Child malnutrition in North-East Syria increases over 150% amid worsening hunger crisis 

  The news comes as Syria faces its worst economic crisis since the start of the war in 2011 with 90% of the 18 million strong population living in poverty (UN).
• SDF remembers internationalist Haukur Hilmarsson martyred defending Afrin and its people 

  With the beginning of the barbaric Turkish aggression on Afrin, Haukur and his group decided to participate in defending the city and its people.
• Turkish army targets villages around Zirgan and Til Temir, wounds 65-year-old civilian 

  The Turkish army has attacked villages around Zirgan and Til Temir in Rojava. A 65-year-old man was injured.
• Abdi: People's resistance will save Afrin 

  SDF General Commander Mazlum Abdi said that the Turkish state is trying to implement its plans with the help of Al Nusra. Abdi said: "The resistance will save Afrin from the mercenaries and the occupation."
• SDF vows to retaliate against the enemies and liberate the occupied areas 

  Another SDF fighter has been killed in a Turkish attack in North-East Syria.
• Turkish army shells villages around Zirgan  

  The Turkish army is shelling villages around Zirgan in Rojava. The area around Til Temir was targeted in previous days.
• Turkey-affiliated mercenaries kidnap 20 people in Afrin in October 

  Syria-Afrin Human Rights Organization spokesperson, Îbrahîm Şêxo, said that 20 people were kidnapped in October and that the deployment of HTS in Afrin is a farce.
• Turkish attack kills an SDF fighter, injures two civilians in Qamishlo 

  The Turkish occupying state continues its aggression against civilian homes and their properties in North-East Syria.
• Four more people kidnapped in Afrin  

  The Turkish state kidnapped four more people in Afrin and its districts. Their fate is unknown.
• Turkish army shelling town of Zirgan 

  The Turkish army has started shelling the town of Zirgan in Rojava with artillery and heavy weapons.
• Autonomous Administration condemns statement by new Swedish Foreign Minister 

  The Autonomous Administration expressed discomfort with the Swedish Foreign Minister's statement regarding support for the Kurds in Syria and hoped that Sweden would maintain its respectable stance in the international community.
• Explosion in Qamishlo, various injured  

  A vehicle exploded in front of a school in Qamishlo on Sunday evening. Several people were injured. The cause of the detonation is unclear.
• HPC-Jin opens its first academy in Hesekê 

  HPC-Jin opened its first Northern and Eastern Syria academy in Hesekê.
• SDF dismantles an ISIS cell, arrests seven in Deir ez-Zor 

  SDF and ISF arrested seven terrorists and confiscated different weapons and documents proving their affiliation with ISIS.
• SDF refutes Turkish allegations about the killing of 15 fighters 

  In a Twitter post on Friday, the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) denied the allegations of the Turkish state, which relies on misinformation and complete distortion of truths in its ongoing genocidal war against North and East Syria.
• "They are all my sons" 

  "Our martyrs are lanterns and key to the safety and stability of our homelands. Their sacrifices are an example of their high noble human morals.”
• Internal Security Forces members buried in Manbij 

  Internal Security Forces members Omer Nayif El Heman and Ebdu El Xelef were buried in Manbij.
• Autonomous Administration hands over 12 ISIS women and 33 children to Germany and Netherlands 

  The Autonomous Administration of Northern and Eastern Syria handed over an Islamic State woman and four children to Germany and eleven women and 33 children to the Netherlands.
• Turkey bombs villages near Kobanê 

  The Turkish army and its jihadist proxies attacked villages near Kobanê. In addition to artillery, combat drones were also used and a soldier of the Syrian army was injured in the aggression.
• Municipalities in Northern and Eastern Syria to be reformed to better serve people 

  Silêman Ereb, co-chair of the Environment and Local Administrations Board of the Cizre Region, said that a new system will be adopted for municipalities in the future.
• Martyr Serdem always dreamed of going to the mountains 

  Serdem Agirî's childhood dream was going to the mountains and being a guerrilla, said his mother, Hamdiye Ehmed. He fell a martyr in a chemical weapon attack carried out by the Turkish army.