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Khabat Abbas

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Khabat Abbas

Khabat Abbas is an independent journalist and video producer based in Northern Syria. Since 2011 She has extensively covered the developments that have shaken her country starting with the popular demonstrations, to the frontlines until the fight against the so-called Islamic State and its aftermath.  She has widely published in local outlets as Firat and Hawar news agencies and has worked as a producer and a stringer with some of the most influential foreign outlets a TF1, ABC, Arte, The Washington Post, The Spiegel, Sunday Times, Daily Mail among others.  Abbas has also experience in the  humanitarian field when serving at MSF in projects aiming to assist the internally displaced persons and in the protection unit with the UNHCR. During the pandemic she co-author a Pandemic Solidarity book. Khabat was a finalist for the News Fixer Prize by the Kurt Schork Memorial Fund. she holds a B.A in English Literature from Aleppo University and an under-graduate diploma of political science from Damascus University.

Arabic English Kurdish

Journalism

Arts & Books War Reporter Breaking News Climate Change

TF1 Raqqa civilians testimonies

TF1 Raqqa seen by drone

ABC ISIS brides and the countless families caught in Syria's civil war

ABC Syrian forces battle ISIS for the city of Raqqa

ARTE Syrie : la prison des jihadistes | ARTE Reportage

The Washington Post This is the man who recruited the 9/11 hijackers

The Washington Post For U.S. troops in Syria, an indefinite stay and increasing risks of combat and insurgency

The Washington Post A year after the battle of Raqqa ended, Syrians return home to ruins

The Washington Post The jihadis that no one wants

Stern Deutscher IS-Kämpfer in Syrien: "Ich habe niemals einem Menschen den Kopf abgeschlagen"

Stern "Ich habe niemals einem Menschen den Kopf abgeschlagen"

TV4/ Swedish More and more ISIS terrorists are giving up - "Must be hideously careful"

TV4/ Swedish 35-year-old ISIS Swede

TV4/ Swedish Mother-of-two Lisa joined ISIS - now she wants to return to Sweden

TV4/ Swedish "She thinks she has the right to come home"

TV4 / Swedish Last ISIS stronghold reportedly free of civilians - now the final battle can begin

Stern Großeltern wollen Kinder des deutschen IS-Kämpfers Martin Lemke nach Deutschland holen

Der Spiegel "More and more are coming, we can't do it alone"

Der Spiegel Drive through the inferno

Der Spiegel Sick Children Bear the Brunt of Post-IS Chaos

Stern Leonora Messing: Drittfrau von deutschem IS-Kämpfer Martin Lemke erzählt ihre Geschichte

Der Spiegel The Grisly End of the Islamic State

Der Spiegel Islamic State Plans Next Move After Loss of 'Caliphate'

The Times Syria’s Isis children cling to life

The Associated Press (AP) In camp of diehard IS supporters, some women express regrets

The Associated Press After IS fall, some women who joined plead to come home

TV4/ Swedish "It is not human to live and live in the camp for the children"

TV4/ Sewdish Skråmo's children reunited with grandpa: "Not completely healthy and strong"

Popular Front Guarding Raqqa from ISIS Sleeper Cells

The Washington post at a sprawling tent camp in Syria, ISISwomen impose a brutal rules

TV4/ Swedish Woman in ISIS camp was going to hide two European children - changed her mind

Dailymail Odious arrogance of a Jihadi 'Beatle'

Dailymail I've lost my babies. I've lost my friends. I just want to come home'

The World/ Radio Turkey’s invasion of Syria has left thousands fleeing their homes

Der Spiegel Türkische Offensive in Nordsyrien Flucht ins Ungewisse

Der Spiegel Der Verrat

The New York Review ‘This Is Ethnic Cleansing’: A Dispatch from Kurdish Syria

CNN Defiant prisoners remain loyal to ISIS in Syria

Ruptly Syria: Residents flee Tal Tamr as Turkish-backed forces continue

Daily Beast For Kurds on the Syrian Front Line There’s No Ceasefire

The Washington Post Apples, beer and pajamas: Turkish goods face boycott in northeastern Syria

The Washington Post How ISIS women and their children are being left stranded in the desert

The Washington Post Thousands of Islamic State fighters captuered in Syria face uncertain fate.

Ruptly Syria: Children of Yazidi sex slaves abandoned post-IS collapse

ParisMatch "Sire, have mercy on us... » : Meeting with Belgian jihadists detained in Hassaké

I heart Radio The Women's War

The Washington Post Haunted yet hopeful: Inside the former caliphate capital

Pluto Press Pandemic Solidarity - Mutual Aid during the Covid-19 Crisis

Reuters Inside the prisons where remnants of Islamic state are held in limbo

Wilson Research Center Special Edition: Interview with Lelwy Abdullah, Co-Chair of Deir Ezzor Military Council in Syria

TV4/ Sewdish Swedish ISIS women want to be sentenced in Sweden

TV4/ Swedish Judge Vian is threatened by ISIS - "We judge them by our laws"

STERN "Kampf ist mein Name" – was es bedeutet, als Kurdin in Syrien zu leben

RFI Siria: La reconstrucción de Raqqa, un largo camino por recorrer

France 24 / spanish Siria: diez años de una guerra que deja casi 600.000 asesinados y desaparecidos

France 24 / spanish Las heridas psicológicas que dejan diez años de guerra en Siria

France 24 / spanish Raqa, una ciudad protagonista de los diez años de guerra en Siria

W radio colombia Mujeres del Estado Islámico escuchan a Maluma en el campo de Roj en Siria

RFI A pesar de los riesgos que conlleva, la Covid-19 es un problema menor en Siria

France 24/ Spanish Raqa: de capital del califato a ciudad abierta y llena de esperanza France 24/ French https://bit.ly/3wlIbyz France 24/English https://bit.ly/3wlIbyz