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Attacks on Healthcare in Syria Look Like a Bloody Strategy of Forced Displacement

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Chatham House 23 February 2018 Dr Abdulkarim Ekzayez Academy Fellow, Centre on Global Health Security There is reason to suspect health facilities are being deliberately targeted in eastern Ghouta in a bid to weaken the resilience of the community to make it more amenable to evacuation. A damaged ambulance in front of Arbin Hospital in […]

Human Rights Watch Report 2018: Syria

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https://www.hrw.org/world-report/2018/country-chapters/syria The fight against the Islamic State (also known as ISIS) emerged as the top priority for Syria’s multiple warring parties in 2017. The government, with the assistance of Russia, Iran and Hezbollah, retook large parts of Central and Eastern Syria from ISIS while US-backed Syria Democratic Forces controlled Raqqa. The race to secure territory […]

HRW: Syria/Russia: Airstrikes, Siege Killing Civilians

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Allow Urgent Aid into Besieged Eastern Ghouta and End Indiscriminate Attacks Print Children in the rubble of damaged buildings in the eastern Damascus suburb of Ghouta, Syria. (Beirut) – Syrian government and Russian forces have escalated their airstrikes on Eastern Ghouta, a suburb approximately 15 kilometers from the center of Syria’s capital Damascus, killing dozens of civilians in apparently […]

Syria: ‘Surrender or starve’ strategy displacing thousands amounts to crimes against humanity

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Whole civilian populations who have suffered horrific sieges and been subjected to intensive bombardments have been given no choice but to leave or die under so-called “reconciliation” agreements between the Syrian government and armed opposition groups, said Amnesty International in a comprehensive new report published today. The government’s campaign of sieges, unlawful killings and forced […]

‘You want freedom? This is your freedom’: Rape as a Tactic of the Assad Regime

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  We always hear about acts of violence against women committed by ISIS and other groups in Syria and Iraq. Why is rape by pro-regime forces under documented? It is more difficult to convince the victims of pro-regime forces to speak out, and their abuses are probably more difficult to document. The main reasons are […]

Breaking Aleppo: A report by Atlantic Council

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After nearly five years of bitter fighting, bombardment, and siege, the Bashar al-Assad regime, Iran, and Russia finally broke Aleppo on December 22, 2016 defeating the opposition and displacing much of the local population. This represented a critical turning point in the Syrian civil war and shifted the balance of power between the United States, […]

Harrowing accounts of torture, inhuman conditions and mass deaths in Syria’s prisons

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AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL PRESS RELEASE Thursday 18 August Harrowing accounts of torture, inhuman conditions and mass deaths in Syria’s prisons The horrifying experiences of detainees subjected to rampant torture and other ill-treatment in Syrian prisons are laid bare in a damning new report published by Amnesty International today which estimates that 17,723 people have died in […]

MSF Condemns Bombing of Al Quds Hospital which it Supports

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Gaziantep, Turkey, 28 April 2016 – The bombing of an MSF-supported Al Quds hospital in the northern Syrian city of Aleppo, on Wednesday night has killed at least 14 people, including at least two doctors said Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) today. According to hospital staff on the ground, the hospital was destroyed by at least […]

Syria: State profits from crimes against humanity as policy of enforced disappearances drives black market

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The vast scale and chillingly orchestrated nature of tens of thousands of enforced disappearances by the Syrian government over the past four years is exposed in a new report by Amnesty International published today. Between prison and the grave: Enforced disappearances in Syria reveals that the state is profiting from widespread and systematic enforced disappearances […]

Amnesty International Report Documents PYD Violations

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In a report published by Amnesty International, the organisation has said: The Democratic Union Party (PYD)-led autonomous administration in northern Syria is using a crackdown against terrorism and the armed group calling itself the Islamic State (IS) as a pretext to unlawfully detain and unfairly try peaceful critics and civilians believed to be sympathizers or […]