Amnesty International has published a briefing on the “torture, flogging and summary killings … in secret prisons run by the Islamic State in Iraq and Sham (ISIS)”, an armed group linked to Al-Qaeda that controls some areas in northern Syria. Amnesty identifies seven detention facilities used by […]
Read more →Reporters Without Borders (RWB) has published a new report documenting the targeted killing, kidnapping and imprisonment of journalists around the world in 2013. Syria had the lion’s share: at least 10 journalists and 35 citizen-journalists were killed in Syria this year (out of a total of 71 […]
Read more →Syrians are now not only fighting the regime and its allies (Hezbollah, the Iran and Russian governments, etc.) but also against the foreign jihadi and salafi forces and their backers (Saudi Arabia, Qatar, etc.). One of the most notrious of these has been the Islamic State in […]
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