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Syria’s war is drawing to a close. But the pain will go on
Bashar Assad rules the ruins of a nation he has bombed and gassed into submission
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U.N. Official: Over 100,000 Detained and Missing in Syria
Reports suggest more than 100,000 people in Syria have been detained, abducted or gone missing during the eight-year conflict, with the government mainly responsible, the U.N. political chief said Wednesday.
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Don’t call them Syria’s child casualties. This is the slaughter of the innocents
As violence escalates, more children have died in rebel-held areas in the past month than in all of 2018. But does anybody care?
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Russian-led assault in Syria leaves over 500 civilians dead: rights groups, rescuers
At least 544 civilians have been killed and over 2,000 people injured since a Ru...
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How 'document hunters' spirited thousands of government files out of Syria
Col. Anwar R. worked for Syria's intelligence services until he defected in 2012. He fled to abroad, but eventually his history caught up with him. He's one of the first big catches for investigators who have smuggled hundreds of thousands of government documents out of war zones.
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Assad urged Syrian refugees to come home. Many are being welcomed with arrest and interrogation.
Returnees have been subjected to harassment or extortion by security agencies, as well as detention and torture, say returnees and human rights monitors.
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In Syria, more than 100,000 have entered Assad's prisons -- and never returned
While one phrase of Syria's brutal nine-year civil war may be concluding, the systemic forced disappearance, torture and murder of hundreds of thousands of Syrians has not ceased. Amna Nawaz talks to Anne Barnard of the Council on Foreign Relations and formerly The New York Times about the staggering inhumanity of Bashar al-Assad's regime and what accountability, if any, it will face.
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Tech Companies Are Deleting Evidence of War Crimes
If grisly images stay up on Facebook or YouTube long enough, self-appointed detectives around the world sometimes use them to reconstruct a crime scene. In July 2017, a video capturing the execution of 18 people appeared on Facebook. The clip opened with a half-dozen armed men presiding over several rows of detainees. Dressed in bright-orange jumpsuits and black hoods, the captives knelt in the gravel...
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Assad regime airstrikes kill over 180 in Syria's Idlib forcing thousands to flee their homes
Many fear worst surge in fighting in months could hail start of massive regime offensive on the rebel and jihadi-held province
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Refugee Labor Abuses Run Rampant on Hazelnut Farms Used by Nestle, Nutella
Most of the world’s hazelnuts are harvested in Turkey. The workers harvesting them don’t earn enough to live, according to a New York Times report.
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Reporter Sharmine Narwani on the secret history of America's defeat in Syria
After years covering the "main battlefield in World War III," Narwani says everything you think you know is wrong. By Patrick Lawrence.
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U.S. has spent $6 trillion on wars that killed 500,000 people since 9/11, a report says
The United States has spent nearly $6 trillion on wars that directly contributed to the deaths of around 500,000 people since the 9/11 attacks of 2001. Brown University's Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs published its annual "Costs of War" report Wednesday, taking into consideration the Pentagon's spending and its Overseas Contingency Operations account, as well as "war-related spending by the Department of State, past and obligated spending for war veterans’ care, interest on the debt incurred to pay for the wars, and the prevention of and response to terrorism by the Department of Homeland Security."
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Floods in north Syria destroy camps hosting 40,000 people
Floods in the north of Syria have affected more than 40,000 displaced people living in refugee camps near the Turkish border, the UN announced yesterday. Speaking as some 24 trucks of humanitarian ...
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How Trump Betrayed the General Who Defeated ISIS
General Mazloum Kobani Abdi led the campaign against the Islamic State in Syria, forging an unlikely partnership between scrappy local militias and élite U.S. Special Forces. Then the President withdrew the American troops.
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ISIS has lost its final stronghold in Syria, the Syrian Democratic Forces says
ISIS has lost its final stronghold in Syria, the Syrian Democratic Forces announced Saturday, bringing an end to the so-called caliphate declared by the terrorist group in 2014. The coalition of Kurdish and Arab soldiers backed by US, British and French special forces said it defeated ISIS and fully liberated Baghouz in eastern Syria.
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Syria: Heavy government shelling in Idlib kills 41, displaces 21,000
Syria's White Helmets recover child from rubble...
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I witnessed the purgatory of people trapped in Syria's Rukban camp | Marwa Awad
Constant hunger and thirst haunt those stranded in the desert, where escape means paying vast sums to smugglers
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ISIS bride Hoda Muthana's family files lawsuit against Trump
The father of a woman who traveled from her home in Alabama to marry an Islamic State fighter filed a lawsuit against President Donald Trump's administration as part of an effort to get her and his 18-month-old grandson returned to the United States.
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UN: Cold kills 29 children fleeing Syria fighting
BEIRUT: The cold has killed close to 30 children in two months among the civilians who have been fleeing the last jihadist pocket in eastern Syria, the United Nations said.
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Tell Me How This Ends
America’s muddled involvement with Syria. By Charles Glass.
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