Latest editorial
Syria: Fleeing terrorists use 2,000 people as human shields
ISLAMIC State extremists in the northern Syrian town of Manbij took 2,000 hostages yesterday to use as human shields as they fled north.
The Kurdish YPG militia besieging Manbij said the militants had fled the town towards their stronghold of Jarabulus on the Turkish border.
“They used these civilians as human shields as they withdrew to Jarabulus, thus preventing us from targeting them,” said YPG Manbij military council spokesman Sherfan Darwish.
Similar stories
CLAUDIA WEBBE looks at how Britain’s Nato ally has upped the stakes in its effort to silence domestic dissenting voices
VIJAY PRASHAD details how US support for Syrian President Ahmad al-Sharaa allowed him to break the resistance of the autonomous Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF)