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Kurdish Leader Jailed For 42 Years Over 2014 Protests By Turkey Court
A Turkish court on Thursday sentenced an ex-leader of the pro-Kurdish HDP party to 42 years in prison for his alleged role in deadly 2014 protests that erupted as Islamic State group jihadists overran the Syrian town of Kobane.
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Syrian Presidential Amnesty Frees 60 Detainees, "Widest" in 11 Year War
Syrian authorities have freed 60 detainees, including some held in regime prisons for over a decade, in a presidential amnesty which also covers terror-related convictions, a war monitor said Monday.
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US Imposes Sanctions On Syrian Prisons, Officials
The United States on Wednesday said it imposed sanctions on eight prisons run by Syria's intelligence apparatus, some of which featured in graphic images by a former Syrian military photographer codenamed "Caesar" that show brutal torture.
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16 Gets Killed As Overnight Air Strikes Hit-On Syrian Prison
At least 16 people were killed overnight in air strikes on a prison in the rebel-held city of Idlib in northwest Syria, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitor said Saturday.
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Syria Carries Out Mass Hangings In Notorious Prison: Amnesty
As many as 13,000 people were hanged in five years at a notorious Syrian government prison near Damascus, Amnesty International said Tuesday, accusing the regime of a "policy of extermination." Titled "Human Slaughterhouse: Mass hanging and extermination at Saydnaya prison," Amnesty's damning report is based on interviews with 84 witnesses, includ...
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Syrian Refugee In Germany Tried To Make A Bomb Before Suicide: Report
A Syrian refugee who committed suicide in prison after being arrested on suspicion of planning an attack on a Berlin airport experimented with chemicals in August in an attempt to make a bomb, a magazine reported on Friday.
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Syrian-Born US Citizen To Be Sentenced For Aiding Terrorists
Prosecutors want a Syrian-born U.S. citizen to serve nearly four years in prison for smuggling rifle scopes, night-vision goggles and other gear to Syrian terrorist groups.
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France Probes Purported ISIS Video Of Children At Execution
Prosecutors in Paris have opened an inquiry into a video attributed to the ISIS showing two children, presented as being French, and suggesting they took part in the killing of Syrian prisoners, a judicial source said Monday.
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He Was Tortured In A Syrian Prison But Now This Canadian Father Is Getting His Life Back
Nearly 15 years ago, a Canadian citizen, Maher Arar, was forced by Syrian prison guards to live in a dark, three-foot-wide, six-foot-deep underground cell where he spent his days alone, listening to the screams of other tortured prisoners. He was often taken out for beatings with an electrical cable and threatened with worse.
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UN Says Syria Aid, Medicine And Prisoner Releases Still Blocked
Aid convoys arrived in four Syrian towns on Thursday but UN humanitarian adviser Jan Egeland said the government was still stopping aid getting to six others under siege.
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UN Probe Accuses Damascus Of 'Extermination' Of Detainees
UN investigators on Monday accused Damascus of carrying out"extermination" in its prisons and detention centres, pointing out that Syrian authorities were aware of detainee deaths "on a massive scale".
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Nearly 60 Dead In Russia Raids On Qaeda-Run Syria Jail: Monitor
Russian strikes Saturday on a prison complex run by Al-Qaeda's Syrian affiliate killed at least 57 people and wounded 30 others, many critically, a monitor said, giving a revised toll.
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Al-Qaeda Offers to Free Lebanon Troops for Female Prisoners
Al-Qaeda's Syrian affiliate has offered to release three Lebanese soldiers in exchange for an ex-wife of the leader of the jihadist Islamic State group and four other female prisoners.
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Islamic State Says Frees Prisoners in Syrian City of Hasaka
Islamic State said today it had freed prisoners held at a jail in the city of Hasaka that it is fighting to seize from government forces.
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Islamic State Blows up Empty Prison Complex in Syria's Palmyra
The Islamic State group demolished a prison in the ancient Syrian city of Palmyra today, a monitor said, destroying what was for decades one of the regime's most feared detention centres.
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Kurdish Leader Jailed For 42 Years Over 2014 Protests By Turkey Court
A Turkish court on Thursday sentenced an ex-leader of the pro-Kurdish HDP party to 42 years in prison for his alleged role in deadly 2014 protests that erupted as Islamic State group jihadists overran the Syrian town of Kobane.
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Syrian Presidential Amnesty Frees 60 Detainees, "Widest" in 11 Year War
Syrian authorities have freed 60 detainees, including some held in regime prisons for over a decade, in a presidential amnesty which also covers terror-related convictions, a war monitor said Monday.
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US Imposes Sanctions On Syrian Prisons, Officials
The United States on Wednesday said it imposed sanctions on eight prisons run by Syria's intelligence apparatus, some of which featured in graphic images by a former Syrian military photographer codenamed "Caesar" that show brutal torture.
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16 Gets Killed As Overnight Air Strikes Hit-On Syrian Prison
At least 16 people were killed overnight in air strikes on a prison in the rebel-held city of Idlib in northwest Syria, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitor said Saturday.
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Syria Carries Out Mass Hangings In Notorious Prison: Amnesty
As many as 13,000 people were hanged in five years at a notorious Syrian government prison near Damascus, Amnesty International said Tuesday, accusing the regime of a "policy of extermination." Titled "Human Slaughterhouse: Mass hanging and extermination at Saydnaya prison," Amnesty's damning report is based on interviews with 84 witnesses, includ...
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Syrian Refugee In Germany Tried To Make A Bomb Before Suicide: Report
A Syrian refugee who committed suicide in prison after being arrested on suspicion of planning an attack on a Berlin airport experimented with chemicals in August in an attempt to make a bomb, a magazine reported on Friday.
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Syrian-Born US Citizen To Be Sentenced For Aiding Terrorists
Prosecutors want a Syrian-born U.S. citizen to serve nearly four years in prison for smuggling rifle scopes, night-vision goggles and other gear to Syrian terrorist groups.
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France Probes Purported ISIS Video Of Children At Execution
Prosecutors in Paris have opened an inquiry into a video attributed to the ISIS showing two children, presented as being French, and suggesting they took part in the killing of Syrian prisoners, a judicial source said Monday.
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He Was Tortured In A Syrian Prison But Now This Canadian Father Is Getting His Life Back
Nearly 15 years ago, a Canadian citizen, Maher Arar, was forced by Syrian prison guards to live in a dark, three-foot-wide, six-foot-deep underground cell where he spent his days alone, listening to the screams of other tortured prisoners. He was often taken out for beatings with an electrical cable and threatened with worse.
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UN Says Syria Aid, Medicine And Prisoner Releases Still Blocked
Aid convoys arrived in four Syrian towns on Thursday but UN humanitarian adviser Jan Egeland said the government was still stopping aid getting to six others under siege.
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UN Probe Accuses Damascus Of 'Extermination' Of Detainees
UN investigators on Monday accused Damascus of carrying out"extermination" in its prisons and detention centres, pointing out that Syrian authorities were aware of detainee deaths "on a massive scale".
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Nearly 60 Dead In Russia Raids On Qaeda-Run Syria Jail: Monitor
Russian strikes Saturday on a prison complex run by Al-Qaeda's Syrian affiliate killed at least 57 people and wounded 30 others, many critically, a monitor said, giving a revised toll.
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Al-Qaeda Offers to Free Lebanon Troops for Female Prisoners
Al-Qaeda's Syrian affiliate has offered to release three Lebanese soldiers in exchange for an ex-wife of the leader of the jihadist Islamic State group and four other female prisoners.
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Islamic State Says Frees Prisoners in Syrian City of Hasaka
Islamic State said today it had freed prisoners held at a jail in the city of Hasaka that it is fighting to seize from government forces.
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Islamic State Blows up Empty Prison Complex in Syria's Palmyra
The Islamic State group demolished a prison in the ancient Syrian city of Palmyra today, a monitor said, destroying what was for decades one of the regime's most feared detention centres.
