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Top Iraqi cleric slams attacks on protesters

Author:  Fri, 2020-02-07 23:13 KARBALA, BAGHDAD: Iraq’s top Shiite cleric on Friday condemned recent deadly attacks on anti-government demonstrators, chastising security forces for not doing more to prevent violence in protest squares across the country. Eight demonstrators were killed this … read more

UN, EU condemn Idlib bombings

Author:  Zaynab Khojji ID:  1581100202560084000 Fri, 2020-02-07 21:28 LONDON: Military operations in northwest Syria have caused “unacceptable” human suffering and “massive waves of civilian displacement and major loss of civilian life,” the UN Special Envoy for Syria Geir Pedersen told … read more

British Daesh militants to be put on trial in Syria

Author:  Zaynab Khojji ID:  1581093564869648100 Fri, 2020-02-07 19:38 LONDON: British Daesh militants could face trial in Syria under plans announced by the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), which is holding thousands of prisoners in the country’s northeast.   The SDF’s political … read more