The U.S. government this week said the head of a human-rights organization working on behalf of Islamist political prisoners was also a financier for al Qaeda. Most of the world knows Abdul Rahman Omeir al-Naimi as a Qatari history professor and human-rights activist. The Swiss-based organization he founded, known as al-Karama from the Arab word…
Read MoreGENEVA — The Syrian government has waged “a campaign of terror” against civilians through a policy of forced disappearances that amounts to a crime against humanity, United Nations investigators said in a report released Thursday.
Read Moreby Anna Borshchevskaya Another recent report –by the International Centre for the Study of Radicalisation (ICSR) —highlights the rise in foreign fighters in Syria. The study is based on analysis of over 1,500 open sources and concludes that up to 11,000 individuals from 74 countries joined the opposition struggle in Syria. From Western Europe in…
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