News has spread recently on the killing of Ameen Issa al-Ali ,35, in the prisons of the Autonomous Administration’s internal security forces (Asayish), leading to conflicting images and accounts of …
Syria
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Background The Turkish Ministry of Defense posted two tweets on their official Twitter account on 14 July 2021. In the first tweet, the ministry claimed that “another war crime came …
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On 6 July 2021, Syrians for Truth and Justice and The Advocates for Human Rights addressed the United Nations Human Rights Council during the presentation of an oral update by …
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Syria’s Kurdish-majority district of Afrin saw an increase in arrests in June 2021. STJ documented 55 cases of detentions against civilians, among them four children and two women, conducted by …
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Executive Summary Gender-based violence remains rampant 10 years into the Syrian conflict, particularly violence against women. Women continue to be subjected to all forms of violence, including sexual exploitation and …
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Executive Summary It has been 59 years since an unjust special census was carried out in Syria’s Kurdish-majority province of al-Hasakah, which resulted in thousands of Syrians being stripped of …
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Ongoing Violations Without Accountability: Islamic State Members in the Syrian National Army
Executive Summary The present report is concerned with the issue of Islamic State (IS) members joining the ranks of the Turkish-backed Syrian National Army (SNA) of the Syrian Interim Government …
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Hundreds of Syrians Deployed to Libya Despite the Ceasefire Agreement
Introduction Parties in the Libyan conflict reached a permanent ceasefire agreement across the country on 23 October 2020.[1] The agreement contained a term on the removal of various groups of …
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Syrians for Truth and Justice (STJ) documented that the Military Police— operated by Turkey-backed Syrian National Army (SNA) — arrested at least 18 people in Syria’s Kurdish-majority region of Afrin …