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Indian-American Man Charged In US For Sending Money To Women In ISIS
A 33-year-old Indian-American man has been charged in the US state of Virginia for transferring thousands of dollars to Islamic State women, hoping to smuggle them out of a Syrian refugee camp, a media report said.
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France Brings Back 15 Women, 32 Children From Syrian Detention Camps
Since the "caliphate" fell in 2019, the return of family members of fighters who were captured or killed has been a thorny issue for European countries.
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Social Worker Mary Roy Dies At 89
Educationist and social worker Mary Roy, whose legal battle ensured equal rights for Syrian Christian women in their ancestral property, died on Thursday, family sources said. She was 89. She died at her home due to age-related ailments, they said.
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4 Syrians Found Frozen To Death In Eastern Lebanon
Four Syrians, two women and two children, were found dead on Friday in eastern Lebanon after having gone missing, the governor of Lebanon's Baalbek and Hermel region tweeted.
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Abolish Church Confessions, Says Women's Panel After Kerala Rape Scandal
The National Commission of Women (NCW) has recommended abolishing the practice of "confessions" in churches as it can lead to blackmailing of women.
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Crime Branch To Probe Sexual Assault Allegations Against 5 Kerala Priests
Amid calls for probe into sexual assault allegations against five priests in Kerala, the state police have asked the Crime Branch to begin its investigations. Five priests of the Malankara Orthodox Syrian Church have been accused of sexually abusing and blackmailing a woman.
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"I Screamed, But No One Came": The Horrifying Sexual Violence Facing Syria's Women And Girls
The stories in the report, written after interviews with more than 450 people, document a terrifying and systematic pattern of sexual abuse by the government during house raids, at checkpoints and in detention centers.
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Rape Used As Wide-Scale Weapon Of War In Syria: UN Report
Syrian government forces and allied militias have raped and sexually assaulted women, girls and men in a campaign to punish opposition communities - acts that constitute war crimes and crimes against humanity, U.N. investigators said on Thursday.
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For Single Syrian Women, Search For Soulmate Comes Up Empty
Of the country's pre-war population of 23 million, more than five million have fled the country and even more are internally displaced.
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Suspected US Led Strike Kills 12 Women In Raqa: Monitor
A suspected US-led coalition strike in Syria's Raqa province has killed 12 women, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said Monday.
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Syria Gas Attack Kills Dozens
Scores of Syrians, many of them women and young children, were killed Tuesday in one of the deadliest chemical attacks of the country's six-year war, according to doctors, rescue workers and witnesses.
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21 Civilians 'Executed' By Rebels In Aleppo: Reports
Syrian authorities have accused rebel fighters of executing 21 civilians, including women and children, at close range as they quit second city Aleppo last week, state media reported.
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Japan Hit Over Pregnancy Clause In Syria Refugee Programme
A Japanese programme aimed at accepting a small number of refugees from war-torn Syria is under fire for implying that pregnant women are not welcome.
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Syrian Girls Flee War Only To Become Mothers In Jordan Camp
In a crowded maternity clinic at a refugee camp in Jordan near the Syrian border, Elhem cradled her crying 11-month-old son, bounced him on her knee and then handed him to her mother to help calm him down.
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Syria Forces Kill At Least 82 Aleppo Civilians In Recent Days: UN
Syrian pro-government forces have carried out at least 82 execution-style killings of civilians in recent days, including women and children, the UN said Tuesday, citing credible reports from the ground.
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Indian-American Man Charged In US For Sending Money To Women In ISIS
A 33-year-old Indian-American man has been charged in the US state of Virginia for transferring thousands of dollars to Islamic State women, hoping to smuggle them out of a Syrian refugee camp, a media report said.
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France Brings Back 15 Women, 32 Children From Syrian Detention Camps
Since the "caliphate" fell in 2019, the return of family members of fighters who were captured or killed has been a thorny issue for European countries.
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Social Worker Mary Roy Dies At 89
Educationist and social worker Mary Roy, whose legal battle ensured equal rights for Syrian Christian women in their ancestral property, died on Thursday, family sources said. She was 89. She died at her home due to age-related ailments, they said.
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4 Syrians Found Frozen To Death In Eastern Lebanon
Four Syrians, two women and two children, were found dead on Friday in eastern Lebanon after having gone missing, the governor of Lebanon's Baalbek and Hermel region tweeted.
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Abolish Church Confessions, Says Women's Panel After Kerala Rape Scandal
The National Commission of Women (NCW) has recommended abolishing the practice of "confessions" in churches as it can lead to blackmailing of women.
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Crime Branch To Probe Sexual Assault Allegations Against 5 Kerala Priests
Amid calls for probe into sexual assault allegations against five priests in Kerala, the state police have asked the Crime Branch to begin its investigations. Five priests of the Malankara Orthodox Syrian Church have been accused of sexually abusing and blackmailing a woman.
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"I Screamed, But No One Came": The Horrifying Sexual Violence Facing Syria's Women And Girls
The stories in the report, written after interviews with more than 450 people, document a terrifying and systematic pattern of sexual abuse by the government during house raids, at checkpoints and in detention centers.
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Rape Used As Wide-Scale Weapon Of War In Syria: UN Report
Syrian government forces and allied militias have raped and sexually assaulted women, girls and men in a campaign to punish opposition communities - acts that constitute war crimes and crimes against humanity, U.N. investigators said on Thursday.
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For Single Syrian Women, Search For Soulmate Comes Up Empty
Of the country's pre-war population of 23 million, more than five million have fled the country and even more are internally displaced.
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Suspected US Led Strike Kills 12 Women In Raqa: Monitor
A suspected US-led coalition strike in Syria's Raqa province has killed 12 women, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said Monday.
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Syria Gas Attack Kills Dozens
Scores of Syrians, many of them women and young children, were killed Tuesday in one of the deadliest chemical attacks of the country's six-year war, according to doctors, rescue workers and witnesses.
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21 Civilians 'Executed' By Rebels In Aleppo: Reports
Syrian authorities have accused rebel fighters of executing 21 civilians, including women and children, at close range as they quit second city Aleppo last week, state media reported.
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Japan Hit Over Pregnancy Clause In Syria Refugee Programme
A Japanese programme aimed at accepting a small number of refugees from war-torn Syria is under fire for implying that pregnant women are not welcome.
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Syrian Girls Flee War Only To Become Mothers In Jordan Camp
In a crowded maternity clinic at a refugee camp in Jordan near the Syrian border, Elhem cradled her crying 11-month-old son, bounced him on her knee and then handed him to her mother to help calm him down.
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Syria Forces Kill At Least 82 Aleppo Civilians In Recent Days: UN
Syrian pro-government forces have carried out at least 82 execution-style killings of civilians in recent days, including women and children, the UN said Tuesday, citing credible reports from the ground.
