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      The Long Shadow of Alois Brunner review – tense mystery of a missing writer and a Nazi fugitive

      news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · 6 days ago - 15:56

    Aviva Studios, Manchester
    This story involving an SS officer who fled to Syria after the war is simply staged but slippery, intriguing and full of nuance

    The flight of Nazis including Adolf Eichmann to hideouts in Latin America after the second world war is well documented. Mudar Alhaggi’s drama tells of one SS officer who flew east instead, but comes at his life story obliquely.

    We hear how Alois Brunner, known as Eichmann’s right-hand man, settled in Damascus and apparently became a security adviser to the president of Syria, Hafez al-Assad. He is drawn as something of a state-sponsored fugitive who, ideologically, brought a piece of the Third Reich with him as he helped to develop Syria’s intelligence system, with its modern-day torture methods.

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      Middle East crisis live: Israeli strikes hit multiple sites in Syria, wounding a soldier, says Syrian military

      news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · Sunday, 17 March - 08:48

    Syria’s state news agency reports airstrikes coming from Golan Heights led to ‘material losses’ and wounding of a soldier

    At least 31,645 Palestinians have been killed and 73,676 injured in Israeli strikes on Gaza since 7 October, the Gaza health ministry said in a statement on Sunday.

    Most of the casualties have been women and children, the ministry has said, and thousands more bodies are likely to remain uncounted under rubble across Gaza .

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      Protests in north-west Syria mark 13 years since start of fight for democracy

      news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · Friday, 15 March - 19:01

    Major demonstrations take place in Idlib region, held by rebels against Bashar al-Assad, whose repression sparked civil war in 2011

    Thousands of people have taken to the streets of Syria ’s rebel-held north-west to mark 13 years since pro-democracy protests swept the country, chanting against President Bashar al-Assad and the region’s jihadist rulers.

    The government’s brutal suppression of the 2011 uprising triggered a civil war that has killed more than half a million people, drawn in foreign armies and jihadists, and divided the country.

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      The desperate last-ditch search for Lebanon’s missing war victims

      news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · Tuesday, 27 February - 08:00

    Forty years on, as witnesses age and possible graves are built over, a final attempt is being made to uncover what happened those who disappeared during the long civil war

    It was 19 January 1983 when Joseph, 23, went missing after driving his father’s truck to transport vegetables from the Metn mountains to markets in Beirut. His family later heard that he had been kidnapped, another victim of Lebanon’s long civil war, which ran from 1975 until 1990.

    His sisters Hana* and Fadia* asked at every detention centre and military base in the country about their brother. Eventually, they were told he had been detained in Syria. Despite several trips to detention centres in Syria, including the notorious Tadmur prison , they left without news of Joseph.

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      Shamima Begum loses appeal against removal of British citizenship

      news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · Friday, 23 February - 10:20

    Lawyers sought to overturn ruling last year that revocation of her citizenship was lawful

    Shamima Begum, who left Britain as a schoolgirl to join Islamic State , has lost an appeal against the decision to remove her British citizenship.

    Begum travelled to Syria in 2015 at the age of 15. Her citizenship was revoked on national security grounds shortly after she was found in a Syrian refugee camp in February 2019.

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      Reports UK-registered cargo ship attacked off Yemen coast investigated

      news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · Sunday, 18 February - 22:50

    UK Maritime Trade Operations says military authorities exploring apparent explosion near vessel

    The UK is investigating reports that a cargo ship has come under attack off the coast of Yemen , after an apparent explosion close to the vessel.

    Following the reports of damage to the vessel, the UK Maritime Trade Operations said : “Military authorities are investigating.

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      Yazidi woman held by IS for 10 years freed by Kurdish fighters in Syria

      news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · Monday, 5 February - 20:03

    Iraqi, 24, rescued with her children from al-Hawl camp after being abducted then raped and forced into marriage

    US-backed Kurdish fighters in Syria have liberated a Yazidi woman who had been held for a decade by Islamic State (IS), where she was raped and forced to marry extremists.

    The 24-year-old woman was rescued with her son and daughter during a security operation by Kurdish fighters in Syria’s al-Hawl camp, which houses tens of thousands of people, mostly the wives and children of Islamic State fighters , the Syrian Democratic Forces said on Monday.

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      US-backed Kurdish fighters killed in drone strike on US base in Syria

      news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · Monday, 5 February - 19:22


    Islamic Resistance in Iraq, an Iranian-backed militia, claims attack after at least six fighters killed

    At least six US-backed Kurdish fighters have been killed in a drone strike on a US base in eastern Syria claimed by Iranian-backed militia that on Friday was the target of US airstrikes.

    The deaths are the latest indicator of how conflict is seeping across the Middle East since the beginning of the war in Gaza, with ever less predictable consequences for regional stability.

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      One year on, orphaned siblings are haunted by Syrian earthquake

      news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · Monday, 5 February - 07:00

    Recovery is slow and difficult for the youngsters freed by their uncle from the rubble in Idlib

    Fear of another earthquake grips millions in Syria’s last rebel-held province, even the lucky few who managed to find new homes after theirs were destroyed. Many began pitching tents as the anniversary approached, wary of having to flee their houses once again.

    When the earthquakes struck in the early hours of 6 February last year, people in Idlib said they thought the ground violently shaking meant airstrikes ordered by the government in Damascus. Now the rumble of airstrikes makes them fearful that another quake is happening.

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