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Loved ones are now searching for the estimated 150,000 people who were detained and disappeared in Bashar Assad’s Syrian government gulags.
Rebels took over the city of Hama, upending a long-running stalemate in Syria’s civil war.
In Syria, insurgents entered towns just north of the central city of Homs, opposition activists and pro-government media say.
The Israeli military said it targeted Syrian antiaircraft batteries, missile depots, manufacturing facilities, drones, helicopters, fighter jets, tanks, hangars, radars and 15 naval vessels.
Killings, including a notorious massacre, in a Syrian suburb left residents wanting revenge. Then they heard a militia leader was going to be hanged.
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Samir Ousman Sheikh allegedly ordered inmates to a wing of a Syrian prison where they were then tortured with a device known as the ‘flying carpet.’
Thousands of Syrians celebrated in Umayyad Square in Damascus after the first Muslim Friday prayers following the downfall of former President Bashar Assad.