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Raqqa

Syrians Lose Their Relatives’ Remains After They Were Removed From Mass Graves

By: Mohammad Bassiki and Ali Ibrahim Since the liberation of Raqqa in 2017, the city's residents are still on a journey to search for the bodies of their relatives after they buried them under suspicious circumstances. They had to…
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Investigations

Syria’s Sinister yet Lucrative Trade in Dead Bodies

Ali Al-Ibrahim-Khalifa Al Khuder: "The corpses the officers had marked we would later dig up and hand back to them. They would ask the victims’ families for $1,500 to $3,000 per body." Anwar al-Muhammad was…
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Investigations

Syria: “Stones Smuggling”

Daham Al Asaad - Istanbul Two kilometers of the Turkish-Syrian border, Yusuf entered into an old house located at Reyhanlı suburbs – south of Turkey, opened carefully a brown big canvas bag and take out slowly a heavy stone inside it to…
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Investigations

“Children of the issue”

Ali Ibrahim- Dirar Khatab- Mohammad Bassiki: At Alderbasia city which affiliated to Al-Hasakah governorate, northern east of Syria, middle of November 2017 , the child Aven Sarokhan (12 years) was kidnapped in front of her school ,as her…
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