Mass Protests in Hasakah Under ‘Friday of the Syrian Flag’ Banner

Thousands of residents of Syria’s Hasakah province rallied after Friday prayers to demand state authority across the province and the release of detainees and people forcibly disappeared in prisons run by the dissolved Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF). In scenes described as the “greatest celebration” and the “Hasakah flood,” protesters gathered in Freedom Square in the city center under the slogan