Kurds across Syria celebrate Nowruz for first time since fall of Assad

Record ID: 1984954

  • Title: Kurds across Syria celebrate Nowruz for first time since fall of Assad
  • Date: 21st March 2025
  • Summary: AFRIN, SYRIA (MARCH 20, 2025) (REUTERS) (MUTE) DRONE FOOTAGE OF FIRE TORCHES FORMING THE WORD, READING (Kurdish): 'Unity' DRONE FOOTAGE OF KURDS HOLDING KURDISH FLAGS, DANCING AROUND BONFIRE VARIOUS OF DRONE FOOTAGE OF KURDS HOLDING FIRE TORCHES AND FLAGS, WALKING UP A HILL AFRIN, SYRIA (MARCH 20, 2025) (REUTERS) VARIOUS OF WOMEN WEARING TRADITIONAL KURDISH DRESSES, HOLDIN
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  • Keywords: Assad HTS Kurds Nowruz Syria War regime
  • Location: AFRIN, DAMASCUS AND AMUDA, SYRIA
  • City: AFRIN, DAMASCUS AND AMUDA, SYRIA
  • Country: Syria
  • Topics: Conflicts/War/Peace,Middle East,Civil Unrest
  • Reuters ID: LVA001051920032025RP1
  • Aspect Ratio: 16:9
  • Story Text: Kurds celebrated Nowruz in rallies held across Syria on Thursday (March 20) for the first time since the fall of Bashar al-Assad.
    Wearing colourful clothes, people waved Kurdistan flags as they danced and lit bonfires on mountains in Afrin, as well as in squares in Amuda and Damascus.
    Nowruz, the Persian New Year, is celebrated at the beginning of spring.
    It is an important festival in Kurdish culture in which people gather to play games, dance and eat.
    "From Afrin to Derik, to Iraq, Kobani, Syria, Turkey and the Kurdish region, we send our greetings to everyone," said Tarek Youssef in Amuda.
    The celebrations this year come weeks after the Kurdish-led and U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces, which controls much of Syria's oil-rich northeast, signed a deal with the Damascus government to join Syria's new state institutions.
    (Production: Mahmoud Hassano, Orhan Qereman, Kinda Makieh)
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