Saddam nephew arrested in Baghdad Oct 20, 2005
Al-Tikriti, who was also a former adviser suspected of financing insurgents after US troops ousted Saddam Hussein, was captured in Hasakah in northeastern Syria near the Iraqi border. Agencies. (Aljazeera.Net)
Syrian forces battle rebel group Sep 9, 2005
A human rights activist in Hasaka, Nidal Darwish, told journalists that "a heavy exchange of fire took place in Khashman quarter, a poor area northeast of Hasakah, led to the killing of one person and wounding two others who were detained". The incident occurred a week after security forces killed five Jund al-Sham members near the city of Hama about 200km north of Damascus. (Aljazeera.Net)
Syrian Security Forces Kill an Islamic Militant and Detain Three, Security Agent Wounded Sep 9, 2005
A human rights activist in Hasaka, Nidal Darwish, told The Associated Press in a telephone interview that "heavy exchange of fire took place in Khashman quarter, a poor area northeast of Hasakah, led to the killing of one person and wounding two others who were detained.". The Syrian official said security forces surrounded the gunmen's hideout and asked them to surrender but instead they threw grenades and opened fire at the force. (AP-Breaking News)
Hussein kin's arrest a blow to insurgency Mar 8, 2005
The Associated Press, citing information from Iraqi officials, reported that al-Hassan was captured with 29 other Hussein followers in the city of Hasakah in northeastern Syria, and that Syria had handed over all 30 to Iraq as a goodwill gesture. Syria has been facing mounting international pressure to do more to clamp down on the insurgents using its territory as a base to challenge the U.S. presence in Iraq. (Newsday -- World)
An Iraqi family business Mar 7, 2005
The Iraqi security officials, interviewed by phone separately over the past week, said Syrian intelligence operatives had tracked al-Hassan to the town of Hasakah, about 40 miles west of the Iraqi border ... In September, according to the security officials, hundreds of Baathists traveled from Mosul and surrounding areas to meet in the Syrian town of Hasakah. (Newsday -- World)
Iraq Tribunal to Try 5 Baathists Mar 2, 2005
Sabawi Ibrahim al-Hassan was arrested along with 29 other fugitive members of the former dictator's Baath Party in Hasakah in northeastern Syria, 30 miles from the Iraqi border, officials said Sunday on condition of anonymity. The U.S. military in Iraq had no comment. (Fox News)
Saddam relative in custody Mar 1, 2005
Sabawi Ibrahim al-Hassan, a former Saddam adviser suspected of financing insurgents after U.S. troops ousted Saddam, was captured in Hasakah in northeastern Syria near the Iraqi border, two senior Iraqi officials told The Associated Press by telephone on condition of anonymity. Hasakah is about 30 miles from the Iraqi border. (South Bend Tribune )
Bloodbath in Iraq Mar 1, 2005
" Hillah is a poor city on the Euphrates, 100 miles south of Baghdad. About 70 per cent of the population is Shia and 30 per cent Sunni and there have always been good relations between them. But, just to the north, there are Sunni towns and villages known for their bitter sectarianism against the Shia. The suicide bombers, often referred to in Iraq as Salafi or Wahhabi, both militant fundamentalist strains of Sunni Islam, see the Shia as infidels to be exterminated. The sectarian divide in Iraq... (The Independent, UK)
More than 110 die in Iraq bombings Mar 1, 2005
Sabawi Ibrahim al-Hassan, who shared a mother with Mr. Hussein, was arrested along with 29 other fugitive members of the former dictator's Baath Party in Hasakah in northeastern Syria, 50 kilometres from the Iraqi border, officials said Sunday. Syria is under intense pressure from the United States, the United Nations, France and Israel to drop its support for radical groups in the Middle East, to stop harbouring Iraqi fugitives and to remove its troops from Lebanon. (Globe and Mail)
Saddam brother 'faces first trial' Mar 1, 2005
Iraqi officials said another half-brother of Saddam, Sab'awi Ibrahim al-Hasan al-Tikriti, who shared a mother with Saddam, had been arrested in Hasakah in northeastern Syria and was handed by Syrian officials to Iraq over the weekend. Amin said that al-Hasan had "been the father of terror operating from the other side of the border.". (CNN -- World)
Syrians deliver Saddam's feared half-brother to Iraq Feb 28, 2005
Iraqi officials say al-Hassan and 29 other members of Saddam's former Baathist regime were rounded up in the northeastern Syrian town of Hasakah and handed over at the nearby Iraqi border to authorities there. Capt. Ahmed Ismael, an Iraqi intelligence officer, said al-Hassan was handed to the Iraqis yesterday. (Seattle Times)
Syria seizes Hussein's half brother for Iraq Feb 28, 2005
Sabawi Ibrahim al-Hassan was caught along with 29 other fugitive members of the former dictator's Ba'ath Party in Hasakah in northeastern Syria, 30 miles from the Iraqi border, the officials said on condition of anonymity. The US military in Iraq had no comment late yesterday. (Boston Globe)
Saddam's half brother captured by Syrian officials Feb 28, 2005
The AP report quoted an intelligence official in the Iraqi Interior Ministry, Capt. Ahmed Ismael, as saying al-Hassan was detained by Iraq early Sunday, and cited the Iraqi officials as saying he had been captured in the Syrian town of Hasakah, about 40 miles west of the Iraqi border and about 120 miles west of the insurgent-battered city of Mosul. Officials in the office of Ayad Allawi, Iraq's interim prime minister, said more details would probably be given today, either in Baghdad or... (Houston Chronicle)
Syria hands over Saddam half-brother Feb 28, 2005
Sab'awi Ibrahim al-Hasan, who shared a mother with Saddam, was nabbed along with 29 other fugitive members of the former dictator's Baath Party in Hasakah in northeastern Syria, 50 kilometers (30 miles) from the Iraqi border, the officials said on condition of anonymity. The U.S. military in Iraq had no immediate comment. (CNN)
Hussein Relative in Iraqi Hands Feb 28, 2005
According to Associated Press, two senior Iraqi officials said he had been captured in the northeastern Syrian town of Hasakah, about 30 miles from the Iraqi border. They said 29 other members of Hussein's collapsed Baath Party had also been captured. (Los Angeles Times)
Saddam's half-brother captured Feb 28, 2005
Sabawi Ibrahim al-Hassan, who shared a mother with Saddam, was nabbed along with 29 other fugitive members of the former dictator's Baath party in Hasakah in northeastern Syria, 50 kilometres from the Iraqi border, the officials said on condition of anonymity. "The capture appeared to be a goodwill gesture by the Syrians to show that they are co-operating," one Iraqi official said. (London Free Press, Canada)
Syria Hands Saddam's Half-Brother to Iraq Feb 27, 2005
Sabawi Ibrahim al-Hassan, who was also a former adviser suspected of financing insurgents after U.S. troops ousted the former dictator, was captured in Hasakah in northeastern Syria near the Iraqi border, two senior Iraqi officials told The Associated Press on condition of anonymity. The officials did not specify when al-Hassan was captured, only saying he was detained following the Feb. 14 assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri in Beirut, Lebanon, in a blast that killed 16... (Newsday -- World)
Katherine Zoepf: In Syria, Iraqi election evokes hope Jan 1, 2005
And here in Syria's far northeastern province of Hasakah, which borders Turkey and Iraq, there are signs of a new restlessness. In March, more than 3,000 Kurds in Qamishli, a city in Hasakah Province on the Turkish border, took part in antigovernment protests, which led to clashes with Syrian security forces and more than 25 deaths ... In late October, more than 2,000 Assyrian Christians in the provincial capital, Hasakah City, held a demonstration calling for equal treatment by the local... (International Herald Tribune)
Group Alleges Kurdish Arrests in Syria Apr 13, 2004
5 million people - live mostly in the underdeveloped northern provinces of Qamishli and Hasakah and occasionally complain of being marginalized in Syria. The March violence, which gave rise to Kurdish protests in several European cities, poses a challenge to President Bashar Assad, whose government already faces calls to improve human rights and threatened U.S. sanctions for alleged support for terrorism. (Santa Cruz Sentinel)
* Syrian cleric calls for calm in wake of ethnic conflict Mar 21, 2004
The fighting continued the next day when Kurds went on the rampage during a funeral for the riot victims, and it spread to Hasakah, a city 80km southwest of Qamishli ... In the government's first report on casualties, Syrian Interior Minister Ali Hammoud said Thursday that a total of 25 people were killed in the violence, 19 of them in Hasakah and nearby cities and six in Aleppo ... 5 million people and live mostly in the underdeveloped provinces of Qamishli and Hasakah. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- Sports)
Kurdish clashes with police leave at least eight dead in Syria Mar 17, 2004
It spread to the neighboring city of Hasakah ... Most live in the underdeveloped provinces of Qamishli and Hasakah ... Qamishli and Hasakah were calm on Wednesday and people went about their business as normal, according to Youssef in Qamishli and a resident of Hasakah, Mudhar Assad. (SFGate.com -- Unrest, Conflicts & War Breaking News)
Clashes between Syrian Kurds and Arabs claim more victims Mar 17, 2004
About 100 Kurdish shops, as well as many cars, were set on fire in the city of Hasakah, he said. There are thought to be two million Kurds in Syria - about 8% of the population - although Kurdish sources put the number at more than 3m. (Google News -- World)
Tension unabated after riots in Syria Mar 16, 2004
While the two main towns in the northeast -- Qamishli and Hasakah -- were generally calm yesterday, there were reports of more violence in other parts of the region bordering Turkey and Iraq ... The next day, hundreds of Kurds went on the rampage, vandalizing shops and state offices in Qamishli and Hasakah. (Boston Globe -- World)
Fifteen die in soccer rioting Mar 15, 2004
Another local Kurdish leader in Qamishli also said 15 people were confirmed dead and that Qamishli was now calm, but Abdel Baki Youssef said there may be "more martyrs" because he understood burning and looting was continuing in the Kurdish city of Hasakah and elsewhere. His report of continuing rioting could not immediately be confirmed. (The Age, Australia -- Breaking News)
San Francisco Chronicle Mar 15, 2004
Another local Kurdish leader, Abdel Baki Youssef, said there may be "more martyrs" because there was apparently still looting in the ethnically mixed city of Hasakah and elsewhere ... Most live in the underdeveloped northeastern areas of Qamishli and Hasakah. (Google News -- World)
