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9 hours ago
Aleppo is suffering a liquor crisis. No import. Poorly made moonshine. 100s suffered alcohol poisoning in 2 days. 10 of them died. #Syria
11 hours ago Very good initiative: a training course for medics on first aid and treating "war injuries" in the town of Atareb http://t.co/eD1bFowa2e
12 hours ago Please. Nasrallah's is not a speech that you take seriously and analyze strategically. Nasrallah's is a speech that you mock and laugh it.
13 hours ago
Another desperate try by Nastallah to justify involving his party in the fight in #Syria. #Qusair
14 hours ago However, his story & the gruesome way in which he was tortured and killed came out today two years ago. RIP hero. #Syria
14 hours ago Hamza al-Khatib wasn't martyred on the 25th of may, but on the 30th of April. #Syria #Daraa
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Tag Archives: women
Defectors: Torture of children, rape by Syrian army ‘routine’
DOMZIN, Iraq — In addition to shooting unarmed civilians, Syrian military personnel routinely have raped women and girls, tortured children and encouraged troops to loot the houses they storm, former foot soldiers say. “What I have seen with my own … Continue reading
The Ultimate Assault: Charting Syria’s Use of Rape to Terrorize Its People
A woman swathed in black squares her shoulders and calmly looks into a camera. She holds a Quran. Only a sliver of her face — her eyeglasses — shows. “What happened to me hasn’t happened to anyone, or if it … Continue reading
Male detainee says officers threatened to rape his family
A Human Rights Watch report issued on July 3, 2012, documents cases of torture used in Syrian detention centers since March 2011. The cases were ascertained through face-to-face interviews with the former detainees. According to the report, a man named … Continue reading
Detainee reports being tortured in Latakia
A Human Rights Watch report issued on June 15, 2012, documents cases of sexualized violence in detention and home raids that occurred primarily between March 2011 and March 2012. “Salim,” who told HRW that he was detained at the Political … Continue reading
Syria’s widows: Hungry and homeless, but undefeated
By: Tara Sutton With criminals and rebels helping them on their way, Syria’s army of refugees marches by night, in single file and silence, towards the Jordanian border. More than 140,000 desperate people, many of them women and children, have … Continue reading
Syria’s Escalating Violence Targets Women
By: Mehrunisa Qayyum I want to understand why the senior White House official could not explain how dealing with Syria through a variety of coordinated measures would help stabilize the Middle East region at the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee (ADC) convention … Continue reading
Former soldier alleges he was repeatedly forced to rape women
A 21-year-old former soldier originally from Al-Hasaka, in northeastern Syria, told German news outlet Spiegel Online International about being forced to rape women held in detention. The man alleged that the rapes occurred at a sugar factory used by the … Continue reading
1,500 women raped in prison, details one woman’s sexual torture
Um Zaher, an activist coordinating care for Syrian rape victims in Jordan, told Al-Jazeera that she is aiding girls and women of all ages who have been sexually violated. She said that an unspecified international organization interviewed many of the … Continue reading
Syrian forces kill 17, including women and children, in Deraa
The Syrian town of Deraa, where the uprising against President Bashar al-Assad erupted 15 months ago, was the scene of a new massacre on Saturday when helling by government forces killed 17 people, including 10 women, the Syrian Observatory for … Continue reading
Assad’s thugs are raping and impregnating women in Syria
By: Michael Weiss One of the least explored aspects of the Syrian regime’s repression is the raping of women. Various human rights monitors have documented cases of sexual violence perpetrated by Bashar al-Assad’s security forces against men, many of them young … Continue reading
