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Sources & MethodFormer general for Syria’s Assad pleads not guilty in torture trial
Brigadier General Khaled al-Halabi faces charges of aggravated torture, coercion, sexual coercion and bodily harm.
Source confidence: medium · Al Jazeera - All NewsRescues in eastern Syria after the Euphrates River bursts its banks
Rescue workers have pulled stranded farmers from flood waters in eastern Syria after the Euphrates burst its banks.
Source confidence: medium · Al Jazeera - All NewsRubio says Trump envoy Barrack to step down from Syria post
Trump envoy Tom Barrack to exit formal Syria post but retain key role managing US policy in Syria and Iraq.
Source confidence: medium · Al Jazeera - All NewsFollowing Syria’s broken tracks from Baniyas to Aleppo
From Baniyas to Aleppo, a 24-hour freight train journey reveals Syria’s shattered rail network and resilient workers.
Source confidence: medium · Al Jazeera - All NewsAustralian woman charged over travel to Syria to join Islamic State
The arrest came eight months after she returned to Australia with her children from Lebanon.
Source confidence: medium · NPR - WorldAustralia charges alleged ISIL-linked woman after return from Syria
Case follows repatriation of women and children held for years in Syrian camps without trial.
Source confidence: medium · Al Jazeera - All NewsAustralia charges woman who returned from Syria with joining Islamic State
Several groups of women and children who spent years in a Syrian camp have returned in recent months. This event card combines 2 sources; each original remains available below.
Source confidence: medium · BBC World, Sky News - WorldHuman rights lawyer Francesca Albanese on life under US sanctions - podcast
The UN’s special rapporteur for Palestine, Francesca Albanese, on the war in Gaza, living under US sanctions and accusations of antisemitism For a brief period this month, the human rights lawyer Francesca Albanese seemed to have some relief. In an extraordinary move in July last year, the Trump administration placed sanctions on the UN’s special rapporteur for Palestine – placing her alongside figures such as Vladimir Putin a...
Source confidence: medium · The Guardian - WorldLabor MP tells Coalition to ‘stop running scare campaigns’ over CGT changes – as it happened
This blog is now closed Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podcast Syrian children should be treated ‘sensitively and gently’, Ryan says Independent MP Monique Ryan says the women and children returning from a Syrian camp should be treated gently, after they arrived in Australia last night. We’re talking about kids who have grown up in a camp in Syria who haven’t been exposed to Australia at all, and I would ...
Source confidence: medium · The Guardian - World