Executive Summary In the present report, Syrians for Truth and Justice (STJ) will address the abuses meted out to Syrian asylum seekers by the Turkish border guards (Gendarmerie). The report…
‘Operation Peace Spring’
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Aleppo: The Syrian Government Denies Basic Foodstuffs to Kurdish Neighborhoods
by z.ujayliOn 13 March 2022, Syrian government checkpoints began restricting the entry of basic foodstuffs to the Kurdish-majority neighborhoods of Sheikh Maqsoud and Ashrafiyye in Aleppo. These two neighborhoods are run…
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Afrin: A Kuwaiti Funded School Built on the Ruins of the Yazidi Cultural Union
by z.ujayliOn 29 June 2020, Afrin’s local council, operating under the Syrian Interim Government, announced it was laying the foundation stones for a new school on the ruins of the Yazidi…
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Afrin: Al-Sham Legion Tortured a Civilian to Death
by z.ujayliOn 25 February 2022, local activists posted several photos on social media of a dead body displaying brutal marks of torture. Field researchers with Syrians for Truth and Justice (STJ)…
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Northeast Syria: More than 120 People Disappeared Following Operation Peace Spring
by z.ujayliExecutive Summary Contrary to its name, Turkey’s Operation Peace Spring, which began 9 October 2019, only brought woes to the people of Syria’s northeast, specifically the area lying between Ras…
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Housing Images Falsely Circulated to be of Illegal Construction in Syria’s Afrin
by z.ujayliOn 31 January 2022, public and personal Facebook and Twitter accounts, mostly Kurdish, circulated alleged news on a Palestinian organization building villages for internally displaced people (IDPs) in Syria’s Kurdish-majority…
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New evidence in the 2019 murder of Muhammed Bouzan by Ahrar al-Sharqiyah fighters
by z.ujayliWritten by Alexander McKeever in collaboration with Syrians for Truth & Justice On October 13th, 2019, Syrian National Army (SNA) faction Tajammu‘ Ahrar al-Sharqiyah announced that they had captured the…
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Northeast Syria: Two Men Die from Torture and Medical Negligence
by z.ujayliOn 22 September 2021, activists circulated a video and photos of a young Syrian man bearing severe marks of torture. The images later discovered to be of Hikmat al-Da’ar, who…
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123 Arrested in “Olive Branch” and “Peace Spring” Strips in October and November 2021
by z.ujayliSyrians for Truth and Justice (STJ) documented the arrests of at least 123 people over October and November 2021 from various areas in the “Peace Spring” and “Olive Branch” strips,…