Ronahî: According to a statement from the Kurdistan Freedom Party, Iran this morning at nine twenty-two launched four ballistic missiles against a base of the National Army of Kurdistan. The base is in the Herir-Balisan area, on the border of Erbil governorate.

Ronahî: The party says that because the base had already been evacuated, no loss of life occurred.

Kamîran: So far, we only have the account of the side that was targeted.

Ronahî: Correct. There is no statement from Iran about this attack among the reports. On another front, the East Kurdistan Units Command announced that the Revolutionary Guards have begun operations against them in the Shaho and Marivan areas over the past few days. According to the command, their forces responded and suffered no casualties.

Kamîran: At the same time, pressure on citizens inside the East continues.

Ronahî: The human-rights organisation HANA reports that five Kurdish citizens have been arrested and taken to unknown locations. Among them are Diyako Bayizidi and Mustafa Coshkari from Mahabad, who, according to the report, were detained by Revolutionary Guards intelligence.

Ronahî: Also according to the same report, yesterday Ilya Lutfi Tormakchi, a seventeen-year-old girl from Baneh, was taken by masked forces.

Kamîran: And something is being built on the border.

Ronahî: According to reports, Iranian forces have built a concrete wall ten kilometres long from the Seyranbendi border gate to behind the villages of Teymiz and Sheweguzan and have placed watchtowers on it. From there to the village of Mishyawe, a trench three metres wide and four metres deep has also been dug.

Kamîran: Back to the West. The sixth return convoy we mentioned yesterday set off today.

Ronahî: More than six hundred forty families are moving from Newroz camp in Derik and Washukani camp toward their homes. These families are from Serekaniye and the countryside of Til Temir and Zirgan.

Ronahî: However, according to reports, return to the city of Serekaniye is still tied to two problems: the family-name lists and the evacuation of the homes of the original residents.

Kamîran: And those still waiting?

Ronahî: In Kobani, seventy-five families from Serekaniye remain in the city museum. Winter is approaching, heating equipment is lacking, and they are calling for a safe return.

Ronahî: The Integration Committee announced that the faculties of the universities of Rojava and Kobani approved by the Ministry of Higher Education are legal. The committee said work to open additional faculties continues.

Ronahî: Mazlum Abdi, adviser to the Syrian presidency, met residents in Amude and said the same thing: work on the future of these universities continues. The Jineology College is also now in the approval process.

Kamîran: So the fate of some faculties is still unclear.

Ronahî: True. On the language front, on the seventeenth of October an initiative to legalise the Kurdish language was announced in Qamishlo. The initiative opposes a decision by the Transitional Government’s Ministry of Education that restricts education in Kurdish in schools.

Ronahî: In the northern countryside of Daraa, in Kafr Nasic, two children aged six and seven lost their lives in the explosion of war remnants. According to a local source, the children were from Deir ez-Zor governorate.

Ronahî: In Ain Issa, two soldiers of the Military Engineering Directorate were wounded while clearing a mine; the condition of one of them is serious.

Kamîran: The war may be over, but its remnants are still on the ground.

Ronahî: Also in Western Ghouta, a member of Syria’s Ministry of Defence lost their life in an attack by unidentified gunmen. According to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, the victim was from Hama.