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...
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...