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Joe Snell

@joesnellreports.bsky.social

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🌍 World news for The Washington Post. Assyrian. joseph.snell@washpost.com

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Joe Snell @joesnellreports.bsky.social · 05/08/2025

Dler Awsman woke up in southern Sinjar on Aug. 2, 2014, to his father warning of trucks approaching from the desert - the Islamic State was fast advancing... www.youtube.com/shorts/kStXS...

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Lots of talk, little actual help for Yazidis

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Peter Stevenson @peterwstevenson.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

Video journalists @joesnellreports.bsky.social and @hyojungpink.bsky.social were outside the airport and crash site early this morning:

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Joe Snell @joesnellreports.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

I spoke with the head of the SDF's political arm in the U.S. about clashes in northeast Syria. Their biggest fear is Turkish-backed attacks against Kurdish civilians and the resurgence of the Islamic State. 1/2

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Joe Snell @joesnellreports.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

I spoke with the archbishop of the Syriac Orthodox Church in Aleppo about reports of looting and the cancelling of mass. He confirmed there's been looting at two churches but mass has continued and they've still been allowed to prepare for Christmas.

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Joe Snell @joesnellreports.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

Over nearly 14 years of civil war, Aleppo’s Christian population has fallen from 300,000 to just 25,000. In 2013, two of the city’s archbishops were kidnapped; their whereabouts remain unknown. w/ @mohamadelchamaa.bsky.social

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Christians in Aleppo fear for their future after Islamist takeover

Though the rebels, once affiliated with al-Qaeda, have sought to soften their image in recent years, many worry they will revert to their repressive roots.

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