A mausoleum in Qardaha near Latakia housing the remains of Hafez al-Assad, who seized control of Syria in 1970, was burned by armed Islamist rebels, adding to fears among the Assad family’s minority Alawite sect. Assad ruled over Syria until 2000 in what has been described as one of the most oppressive police states in the Middle East
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No pardons for prison torturers, says Syrian rebel leader
‘To cough was to risk death’: the artist who mapped Syria’s Sednaya prison with testimonies from its survivors
