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At five in the morning, we met Issa in his modest, rural home in al-Karamah area of the Raqqa countryside. The early breeze bit into our faces as Issa finished breakfast with his brothers and father. Dressed in a red shirt, he had pulled on a light cotton jacket to shield himself from the morning chill.
Sunday, December 15th. While students from various cities and villages across Syria packed their bags in preparation for their first day of school after the fall of Assad, Ali was gearing up for a long day at work. His workshop awaited him, where he would spend hours of his day surrounded by tools and engines.
In Syria, one-third of the population lives in communities contaminated by unexploded ordnance
Led by Turkish doctor Fırat Sarı, a network of doctors, nurses, and ambulance drivers, has been accused of systematically admitting newborns into incubators for extended periods, even when their health did not require it. The scheme, allegedly driven by financial motives, exploited vulnerable families, unnecessarily prolonging the infants’ time in intensive care.
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“They would enter homes and tell the women, if you have two children, we’ll kill one and leave the other, if you have five, we’ll kill three and leave two, and so on.” These were their commander’s orders, instructing them to kill every man over 18 and under 40….
