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A picture taken on October 18, 2013, shows a rebel fighter standing behind a broken television in the northern Syrian city of Aleppo. (AFP PHOTO / KARAM AL-MASRI)

Syria: Rebel-run prisons emulating Assad torture tactics

by Asharq Al-Awsat | Nov 29, 2013 | Middle East

Beirut, Asharq Al-Awsat—Syrian opposition groups have established prisons in rebel-held areas of the country and are using the same methods of torture as the Assad regime, Syrian activists told Asharq Al-Awsat this week. The director of the London-based Syrian...

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In this image taken from leaked video obtained by Ugarit News and posted on Monday, July 15, 2013, which has been authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting, purports to show a fireball from an explosion at a weapons depot set off by rocket attacks that struck government-held districts in the central Syrian city of Homs on Thursday, Aug. 1, 2013. (AP Photo/Ugarit News via AP video.)

Ammunition depot blast in Homs kills 40

by Asharq Al-Awsat | Aug 2, 2013 | Middle East

London, Asharq Al-Awsat—At least 40 people were killed and hundreds injured in an ammunition depot blast that shook one of the pro-Assad neighborhoods in the embattled city of Homs on Thursday. According to activists from the city, a series of explosions reverberated...