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US and UK complicit in detentions at Syrian camps where torture rife, says Amnesty

news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · 2 days ago - 09:01

Report says thousands of people held in little-reported facilities where authorities are violating human rights on a large scale

The US and UK are complicit in the detention of thousands of people, including British nationals, in camps and facilities in north-east Syria where disease, torture and death are rife, according to Amnesty International.

In a report, the charity says the western-backed region’s autonomous authorities are responsible for large-scale human rights violations against people held since the end of the ground war against Islamic State (IS) more than five years ago.

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Why Israel’s attack on Iranian consulate in Syria was a gamechanger

news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · 5 days ago - 14:07

A war long fought through proxies, assassinations and strikes outside Israel has spilled into the open

The large-scale attack by Iran on Israel may have passed with relatively little damage, but it marks a significant transformation in the conflict between the two enemies.

A war that has long been fought through proxies, assassinations and strikes away from Israeli soil – often in third countries – has spilled into the open.

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Cyprus calls for EU help to manage record Syrian migration from Lebanon

news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · Saturday, 6 April - 18:30

Interior minister says island’s facilities at breaking point and calls for aid to Lebanon similar to recent Egypt pact

The EU must help Cyprus deal with record numbers of Syrian migrants from Lebanon, the island’s government says.

Before a visit to Beirut to discuss the emergency on Monday, Cyprus’s interior minister appealed for support from Brussels, saying the country’s reception facilities were at breaking point.

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Israel on high alert after Iran’s missile retaliation threat

news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · Thursday, 4 April - 12:27

Iranian leaders promise response to strike that killed IRGC members with attack ‘at the same magnitude’

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Israel has suspended leave for combat units and heightened its air defence command to deal with possible missile or drone attack from Iran following the killing this week in an airstrike of senior Revolutionary Guard commanders in Syria.

The Israeli military is also considering reopening shelters in Tel Aviv as a precaution against a possible attack, according to Mehr News Agency.

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Iran vows revenge after two generals killed in Israeli strike on Syria consulate

news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · Monday, 1 April - 21:17

Several people killed in airstrike, including Revolutionary Guards Corps commander Mohammad Reza Zahedi and his deputy

Iran has vowed revenge after Israeli war planes destroyed the Iranian consulate in Damascus, killing at least eleven people, including a senior commander in the Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) Quds force.

Iran’s leaders in Tehran described the targeting of a diplomatic mission late on Monday as unprecedented and promised a harsh response.

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Israeli airstrike hits Iranian consulate in Damascus – live updates

news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · Monday, 1 April - 17:32

Iran state media report senior Iranian Guards commander Mohammad Reza Zahedi killed after strike in Syrian capital

Israeli airstrike on Iran consulate in Syria kills six including IRGC commander

Emergency services have been working at the scene of the site in the Mezzeh district of Damascus, where several people have been killed after Israeli warplanes destroyed the Iranian consulate in the Syrian capital.

Reporters at the scene saw smoke rising from the rubble of a building that had been flattened, and emergency vehicles parked outside.

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Israeli airstrike on Iranian consulate in Damascus kills six including IRGC commander

news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · Monday, 1 April - 16:11

Mohammad Reza Zahedi of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps among fatalities in Syria attack

Israeli warplanes have struck the Iranian consulate in Damascus, killing six people reportedly including a senior commander of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps.

Reporters at the scene in the Mezzeh district of the Syrian capital saw smoke rising from the rubble of a building that had been flattened, and emergency vehicles parked outside.

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Israeli airstrike kills dozens of Syrian soldiers near Aleppo, says war monitor

news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · Friday, 29 March - 07:59

Strike in Aleppo hit near Hezbollah weapons depot, says UK-based group, while Syrian state media says civilians among the dead

An Israeli airstrike on Syria’s Aleppo province has killed at least 36 Syrian soldiersin an area near Hezbollah weapons depots, the UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights has said.

“At least 36 soldiers were killed and dozens wounded,” said the group, which has an extensive network of sources in Syria. The targeted area is located near Aleppo’s international airport, it added.

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The Long Shadow of Alois Brunner review – tense mystery of a missing writer and a Nazi fugitive

news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · Friday, 22 March - 15:56

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This story involving an SS officer who fled to Syria after the war is simply staged but slippery, intriguing and full of nuance

The flight of Nazis including Adolf Eichmann to hideouts in Latin America after the second world war is well documented. Mudar Alhaggi’s drama tells of one SS officer who flew east instead, but comes at his life story obliquely.

We hear how Alois Brunner, known as Eichmann’s right-hand man, settled in Damascus and apparently became a security adviser to the president of Syria, Hafez al-Assad. He is drawn as something of a state-sponsored fugitive who, ideologically, brought a piece of the Third Reich with him as he helped to develop Syria’s intelligence system, with its modern-day torture methods.