Shafaq News / Seven mass graves were excavated in Sinjar district today, containing victims that ISIS killed when it invaded the district.
Shafaq News agency's reporter said that representatives of government institutions, local and international organizations attended the ceremonies that were held on this occasion, in Hardan village, Sinjar.
The head of the Yazidi Organization for Documentation (specialized in documenting crimes committed against the Yazidi minority), Khayri Ali, told Shafaq News agency that the international and local investigation teams started working today to excavate the remains of the victims.
He added that the number of victims in these mass graves is still unknown, but can be estimated at 70 people, pointing out that the excavations will last for 21 days.
ALEPPO NORTHERN COUNTRYSIDE, Syria (North Press) Dozens of members, including officers from the Turkish-backed Civil Police faction, in the city of Afrin, north of Aleppo, submitted on Tuesday their resignation at the backdrop of the injury of a number of them in an attack by the Military Police faction.
More than 85 members of the Civil Police faction, including five officers, submitted their resignations, at the backdrop of the Military Police assaulting members of the faction in a clash this morning, North Press reported a private source.
The officers and members, who submitted their resignations, were mostly from the Special Missions Department, in addition to the resignation of a number of members from the Guards Department and the Diwan, the source added.
Two members of the Civil Police faction and a woman were variously wounded in an armed clash with the Military Police in Afrin this morning.
Since Turkey and Turkish-backed armed opposition factions took control of Afrin in March 2018, cases of murder, kidnapping, infighting, illegal logging, and building settlements in Afrin have continued, according to human rights reports.
Due to the Turkish invasion in 2018, the indigenous people of Afrin resorted to al-Awda, Shahba, Sardam, Afrin, and Barkhodan camps, while others took refuge in 42 villages and towns in Aleppo northern countryside.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
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Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
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