The Buried Treasure Left Behind by the Islamic State
An exclusive joint investigation reveals how the group resorted to hiding its assets underground in the deserts of Syria and Iraq, and how they are being uncovered.
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“The Final Charge”: From U.S.-Funded Prisons to Iraqi Terrorism Courts, Syrians Face Possible Death Sentences
A SIRAJ investigation reveals that the transfer of thousands of detainees from Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) prisons to Iraq included Syrians held on widely varying grounds and under markedly different case files—including individuals whose original detention records made no reference to ISIS.
The transfers, overseen by the United States after years of American funding for the detention system, were carried out without independent, individualized judicial review of detainees’ files. Those transferred now face proceedings before Iraqi courts on terrorism charges that can carry the death penalty.
Unmasking Two Butchers of Quneitra.. How officers in Assad’s army turned the deepest valley in southern Syria into a mass grave?
Thirteen years after the Wadi Tuaim massacre in Quneitra governorate, this investigation by Syrian Investigative Reporting for Accountability Journalism (SIRAJ), published in collaboration with New Lines, traces the crime and reconstructs its events, drawing on newly available evidence and the testimony of victims’ relatives, and revealing the identities of two officers in the former regime’s army who were responsible for it. The investigation documents how 13 civilians from the village of Saida al-Golan were summarily executed, how their bodies were thrown into the bottom of the valley to conceal the crime, and how residents finally recovered them once fighters from the Free Syrian Army (FSA) regained control over the area.
