Alannah Travers

Berlin, Germany, London, Middle East

Freelance Journalist at Freelance

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SDF warns Syria's Tishrin Dam may collapse due to Turkish bombardments

Oct 9, 2023 | thenewregion.com | Alfadhel Ahmad |Paul Davis |Zhelwan Z. Wali |Chenar Chalak |Suadad al-Salhy |Alannah Travers | +59 more

ERBIL, Kurdistan Region of Iraq - The Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) warned on Wednesday that Turkey’s intensifying bombings may cause “a catastrophic collapse” of the Tishrin Dam in northern Syria. "Turkish warplanes have conducted multiple airstrikes on the Tishrin Dam and its surrounding areas,” the US-backed, Kurdish-led SDF said in a statement.
With Furious Love

Sep 13, 2023 | ethelmagazine.com | Alannah Travers

I write from Akrê, in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq. From here, among the Kurdish mountains in the north, to the marshes of the south, exists a country that will break your heart and destroy your patience. I reflect in the garden of a friend’s summer house—pitch black, candle flickering, entirely alone.
Extreme heat hits Iraq, as temperatures exceed 50 degrees Celsius

Aug 4, 2023 | aljazeera.com | Alannah Travers

Extreme temperatures and a lack of electrical power are a deadly combination, and one that is being felt across Iraq. The country is one of the world’s most vulnerable to climate change, faced with scorching heatwaves, reduced rainfall, water scarcity, and desertification.
Nine years after the Yazidi genocide, what next for survivors?

Aug 3, 2023 | msn.com | Alannah Travers

Kabartu Camp, Duhok – By 10am, it is already nearly 40 degrees Celsius (104F) in a displacement camp in the Kurdish region of Iraq. Fawziya Choko, 20, walks across the sprawling Kabartu Camp where she has grown up. The delicate, dark-haired young woman was 11 when the sound of gunfire startled her awake on August 3, 2014, in the village of Siba Sheikh Khidir.
‘How would you survive?’: Desperation grows in Iraq water crisis

Jun 27, 2023 | aljazeera.com | Alannah Travers
‘How would you survive?’: Desperation grows in Iraq water crisis

Jun 27, 2023 | n9.cl | Alannah Travers
‘So trapped’: A young Iraqi driver’s costly taxi to nowhere

May 31, 2023 | aljazeera.com | Alannah Travers
FJA | Fetisov Journalism Awards

May 11, 2023 | fjawards.com | Christina Last |Alannah Travers |Stella Martany

AboutShortlist and Winners Tom Brown is a freelance energy reporter with a background in financial journalism, writing for Al Jazeera, The Daily Telegraph and New Lines Magazine. He investigates illegal oil activity in Africa and the Middle East, with investigations funded by the European Journalism Centre, the Environmental Reporting Collective, The Earth Investigations Programme, the Fund for Investigative Journalism and the Arena Climate Network.
Refugees claim gas flaring cancer link in northern Iraq

Apr 18, 2023 | aljazeera.com | Alannah Travers |Tom Brown
Iraqis born in 2003 reflect on a life that began with war

Mar 29, 2023 | aljazeera.com | Alannah Travers