Tensions between Arab and Kurdish residents escalated in the northeast Syrian city of Hasaka on Thursday, October 8. Authorities raised a large Syrian flag at the city’s Peace Roundabout, also known as Freedom Roundabout, in a ceremony the governor described as a goodwill gesture marking progress toward integrating the former Kurdish administration into the Syrian state.
Hours later, pro-government protesters, mainly from the Arab Ghweiran neighborhood, gathered at the roundabout. They chanted pro-Damascus slogans, demanded full state control over the province, desecrated Kurdish symbols, and removed the roundabout’s multilingual sign. Security forces dispersed them, then forcibly dispersed a Kurdish counter-protest that evening.
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