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Bashar Abdo had just returned home last month after four years in the Syrian military when a mob of neighbors and others armed with guns and knives swarmed his family’s front door and accused him of being a thug for the ousted regime. His sisters and sister-in-law tried to block the crowd as he hid. But people stormed in and …

There seem to be no limits to the dark revelations laid bare by the downfall of Syria’s 54-year Assad regime. Prisons have emptied, exposing the instruments of torture used on peaceful protesters and others considered opponents of the government. Stacks of official documents record thousands of detainees. Morgues and mass graves hold the gaunt, broken-bodied victims, or at least some …

King Charles has made a donation to help boost a charity’s humanitarian work in Syria following the fall of the country’s dictator Bashar al Assad. The King is a patron of the UK arm of the International Rescue Committee (IRC) and has made an undisclosed contribution to help with its services – which includes distributing 2,400 hygiene kits to families …