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Syria: Eighth Anniversary of the Ghouta Chemical Weapons Attack

Eight years ago, on the early morning of August 21, 2013, the Assad regime released the nerve agent sarin on its own people in the Ghouta district of Damascus, killing more than 1,400 Syrians, many of them children.  The United States estimates that the Assad regime has used chemical weapons against the Syrian people at least 50 times since ...
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2021 TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS REPORT: SYRIA

SYRIA: TIER 3 The Government of Syria does not fully meet the minimum standards for the elimination of trafficking and is not making significant efforts to do so, even considering the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, if any, on the government’s anti-trafficking capacity; therefore Syria remained on Tier 3. During the reporting period, there was ...
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