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Sectarian cleansing in Syria's coastal region?

My column* this week in The National discusses the carnage in the Syrian coastal area of Banias over the weekend committed by pro-regime militias, probably led by a Turkish man called Mihraç Ural. Ural is known for activists in the area. He leads a militia, called the Syrian...

Homs faces continuous series of torture

Activists of the embattled city of  Homs have reported systematic sectarian practices by Military Intelligence and Shabiha- pro-Assad Militia- against residents who still under siege for almost one year.  ''Assad regime did not stop sectarian displacement of the population of...