To The Frontlines Against ISIS
Jun 4, 2016, 12:21 pm
#48
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Great report and thank you mainly for showing people going about their daily lives as we all do. Most of your photos match my own memories from traveling around the ME and Central Asia, but in order to do that I have to forget about the awful atrocities that have been going on in Syria and Iraq and just see it as another place in the world, inhabited by our brothers and sisters.
Jun 4, 2016, 1:14 pm
#49
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I always appreciate your TRs and the wonderful photos you always take of the "everyday people" wherever you are. "Everyday" takes on a whole new meaning in this one - but it's great to see the smiles and the resolute gazes amidst all that s happening there. Truly thank you for a view into this area. Travel safely
Jun 4, 2016, 2:27 pm
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Crikey!
It's going to be hard to go back to reading the litanies of luxury found in the majority of FT trip reports after having experienced your Syrian adventure, even indirectly.
Your reportage is in a class by itself. ^
It's going to be hard to go back to reading the litanies of luxury found in the majority of FT trip reports after having experienced your Syrian adventure, even indirectly.
Your reportage is in a class by itself. ^
Jun 4, 2016, 2:42 pm
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Incredible, fantastic trip report! Thanks for sharing! Surreal world between civil war, death and normal life...good-looking people, smiles and warmth... Your trip report is much more valuable as most of the "regular" newspaper articles or TV reports. Thanks again and travel safely!
Jun 4, 2016, 3:06 pm
#56
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Truly amazing, DanielW. This is probably the first TR that I've read through in it's entirety instead of just flipping through the pics and skimming. It's one thing to look at news stories, with which one gains a sort of numbness to what is happening there, but to be able to see these towns in their entirety as well as the people who live there is a privilege. Thank you.
Also, I knew Kurdish women were fighting, but didn't realize the extent to which they were. Nice to see the equality.
Unfortunate that it took this long, but hopefully other countries do so as well.
Also, I knew Kurdish women were fighting, but didn't realize the extent to which they were. Nice to see the equality.
Unfortunate that it took this long, but hopefully other countries do so as well.
Jun 4, 2016, 5:40 pm
#58
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This is by far the best TR I've read, you really should be working for national geographic! Makes you really appreciate living in a first world country where you only worry about gate lice and economy seats.
I'm quite surprised how organized ISIS is with ID cards and organizational rules and structure.
Do you get a pleasant VIP meeting every time you go to a western country now that you have a syrian stamp on your passport?
I'm quite surprised how organized ISIS is with ID cards and organizational rules and structure.
Do you get a pleasant VIP meeting every time you go to a western country now that you have a syrian stamp on your passport?
Jun 4, 2016, 7:41 pm
#59
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Thank you for sharing such an amazing report and its adjoining pictorial that both educated and humanized the conflict for me. I got a greater understanding about the factions fighting against ISIS in your TR than from the daily news media. ^
