US REPORT ON HUMAN RIGHTS IN SYRIA DOCUMENTS ‘TREND’ OF KIDNAPPINGS OF WOMEN IN AFRIN

The U.S. State Department’s 2020 Country Report on Human Rights Practices for Syria acknowledged the kidnappings and disappearances of women carried out by Turkish-backed Syrian National Army militias in Afrin, the highest-level acknowledgement of the practice by the U.S. government to date. “The COI, STJ, the Violations Documentation Center (VDC), and other monitors documented a…

US ‘deeply concerned’ by rights abuses in occupied areas

The U.S. Department of State is “deeply concerned by reports that Turkish supported opposition (TSO) groups engaged in ‘gross violations of human rights and violations of the law of armed conflict’ in northeast Syria,” according to a report from the Department of Defense Lead Inspector General for Operation Inherent Resolve covering the period between July…