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by the SDF during which Osajli, Arima, and other cities were captures, ISIL suffered heavy losses in the west and north of the city of Manbij despite repeated attempts to break the SDF siege. As ISIL's expulsion from the city neared, Yousef announced that Manbij, a city of strategic importance, would
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Referring to the principle of co-governance's attempt to ensure that Syria is government so as to include the country's many ethnic groups (predominantly Arabs and Kurds), Abdulsalem
Mohammed said that "Hediya represents Rojava and Selam represents northern Syria." Mohammed, a Kurdish teacher and
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During her tenure as co-president, Yousef worked towards greater inter-sectarian cooperation particularly between Kurds and Arabs. The Rojava federation, Yousef said, "is something beyond the nation-state. It's a place where all people, all minorities, and all genders are equally represented." Also
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Thursday July 21, 2016, the Syrian Democratic Forces gave ISIL forces a 48-hour ultimatum to leave Manbij. ISIL refused the ultimatum, and clashes broke out on Friday. By Monday the 25th, the Manbij Military Council (MMC), aligned with the SDF, had gained control of a majority of the city. By
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in the Syrian civil war but, in line with her democratic confederalist beliefs, opposes intervention for the purposes of establishing a
Kurdish state separate from Syria. "We will not allow the fragmentation of Syria," she said in July 2016. "We want the democratization of Syria."
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As the Syrian civil war unfolded and the Rojava federation emerged, Yousef voiced her "desire for Manbij to be part of the democratic federal area after its liberation." This was part of a wider campaign to unify the cantons of Rojava into a contiguous federation.
294:(SDF) carried out a campaign to liberate the territories still held by ISIL in northern Syria and to unify the cantons. On June 10, less than a week after liberated eight surrounding villages and the Manbij Military Council cut off ISIL's supply route between
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federation. The federation covered about 16 percent of Syria's land area. In an interview upon her election, Yousef described the mission of the committee as creating "a wider and more comprehensive system" in the areas liberated from the
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in the northeast of the newly established Rojava federation. Yousef served as co-president with fellow co-president
Humeydi Daham al-Hadi, an Arab tribal leader. Yousef's office was located in the former headquarters of the state-owned
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during her tenure, Yousef pursued the policy of "co-governance" which, as she explained in an interview, ensures that "every position at every level of government in Rojava . . . includes a female equivalent of equal authority."
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August 5, the MMC had captured roughly 80 percent of the city. On August 6, Syrian
Democratic Forces declares that they had gained "almost complete control" of the city. Manbij was liberated on August 15, 2016.
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In her twenties, Yousef, then a guerilla, had been imprisoned by the Assad government for two years in
Damascus on charges of having been a member of a secret organization aiming to break up Syria.
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soon join the Rojava federation via a popular referendum. The incorporation of Manbij would be a significant step toward uniting the currently non-contiguous Rojava federation cantons of
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