Armed men loyal to the Syrian government carried out field executions and spoke of purifying the country, according to eyewitnesses and video, providing a gruesome picture of a crackdown against remnants of the former Assad regime that spiraled into communal killings.
Assad’s fall, at least 64 kidnappings and executions have been recorded in Homs, a major city in central Syria. Most victims are Alawites, the religious minority tied to the Assad family.
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The National on MSNSyria’s grave sectarian violence exposes battle lines long in the makingWhen it became fairly certain that former Syrian president Bashar Al Assad's regime was doomed in the first week of December, cars carrying hundreds of people clogged the main motorway from the centre of the country to the coast.
Gen. Ibrahim Huweija is also accused of overseeing killing of Lebanese politician Kamal Jumblatt - Anadolu Ajansı
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Al-Monitor on MSN'It was a mafia': Details emerge on how Bashar al-Assad family sucked Syria dryFrom a Bond villain lair in the rugged heights overlooking Damascus, the all-seeing eye of a notorious Syrian military unit gazed down on a city it bled dry.
HOMS, Syria — His face is everywhere in ... Only now, with ruler Bashar al-Assad forcibly ousted last December, can Sarout's singing be played publicly in Syria. Children, some born during ...
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