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                                "*": "__NOTOC__\n{| style=\"width: 100%; margin: 4px; padding: 3px; background:none; border-spacing: 3px;\"\n| colspan=2 style=\"width:100%; background:#f9f9f9; margin: 4px; padding: 3px; border:1px solid #ddd;\"|\n{| style=\"padding:0 6px 0px 6px;width:100%;background:none;vertical-align:top;text-align:justify;\"\n|\n\n== Welcome to ''A Closer Look On Syria'' ==\nFor a word on our approach and how you can contribute to the project, continue [[A_Closer_Look_On_Syria:Community_portal|here]]. On the Main Page below are general news and some select incidents studied at ACLOS since its creation in 2012. For more current analysis, check \"[[Special:RecentChanges|Recent changes]]\" or \"[[Special:NewPages|New Pages]]\" in the menu to the left, or use the search box.\n|}\n|-\n|colspan=2 |\n\n{| style=\"background-color:white;\" |\n<inputbox>\ntype=fulltext\nsearchbuttonlabel=Search ACLOS\nbreak=no\nplaceholder=enter search term\n</inputbox>\n|}\n\n|-\n| rowspan=\"2\"  style=\"width:50%; border:1px solid #cef2e0; background:#f5fffa; vertical-align:top; color:#000;\" | \n\n{| style=\"padding:0px;margin-top:3px;width:100%;background:#fff9f9;vertical-align:top;\"\n|\n<h2 style=\"margin:1px; background:#ECEC6E; font-size:120%; font-weight:bold; border:1px solid #8B8B18; text-align:left; color:#000; padding:0.2em 0.4em;\">Syria News</h2>\n\n<div style=\"width:100%;height:500px;overflow:auto;padding-top:5px;\">{{:Syria news/Current}}</div>\n|}\n\n<h2 style=\"margin:3px; background:#cef2e0; font-size:120%; font-weight:bold; border:1px solid #a3bfb1; text-align:left; color:#000; padding:0.2em 0.4em;\">Chemical Weapons<span style=\"font-size:85%; font-weight:normal;\"> (starting late 2012)</span></h2>\n{{Main|:Category:Chemical Weapons}}\n{| style=\"padding:0 6px 0px 6px;width:100%;background:none;vertical-align:top;text-align:justify;\"\n|[[File:Chem 4-9 A.png|right|80px|link=:Category:Chemical Weapons]]\nA running theme in Syria news is claims about the use of chemical weapons and the red lines they would cross, if confirmed. Our category on this topic covers most reported incidents, especially all high-profile ones like [[Alleged_Chemical_Attack,_August_21,_2013|the one that almost started a world war]]. In 2013, the allegations mostly involved the use of the nerve agent sarin. Since Syria surrendered its stocks to avert war, the allegations from 2014 to present shifted to use of chlorine gas. In both phases, ACLOS has discovered many problems with the accusation of government CW use, as well as much evidence that opposition forces are the ones actually guilty for many incidents. This trend continued when in early April 2017 the topic [[Alleged Chemical Attack Khan Sheikhoun 4 April 2017|hit big news again]], just to return once more [[Alleged_Chemical_Attack,_April_7,_2018|a full year later]].\n\n|}\n\n<h2 style=\"margin:3px; background:#cef2e0; font-size:120%; font-weight:bold; border:1px solid #a3bfb1; text-align:left; color:#000; padding:0.2em 0.4em;\">Aleppo Aid Convoy Attack<span style=\"font-size:85%; font-weight:normal;\"> (September 19, 2016)</span></h2>\n{{Main|Attack on Red Crescent convoy in Urm al-Kubra}}\n{| style=\"padding:0 6px 0px 6px;width:100%;background:none;vertical-align:top;text-align:justify;\"\n|[[File:OFAB-250 bomb in Urm al-Kubra warehouse.jpg|right|140px|link=:File:OFAB-250 bomb in Urm al-Kubra warehouse.jpg]]\nAround 20 or perhaps 30 civilians are killed in in an attack on an aid convoy near Aleppo, destroying more than a dozen trucks hauling medical aid. This is another disputed incident; the West and its sponsored activists alleges a Russian or Syrian air attack is to blame, while Russia and Syria don't seem to know exactly what happened. ACLOS investigates. \n\nAnd not to be distracted: this came just two days after the [[US airstrike on SAA in Deir ez-Zor]] that killed at least 60 Syrian soldiers in a well-known position of theirs, in a rather implausible \"accident.\" \n  \n|}\n\n<h2 style=\"margin:3px; background:#cef2e0; font-size:120%; font-weight:bold; border:1px solid #a3bfb1; text-align:left; color:#000; padding:0.2em 0.4em;\">Houla<span style=\"font-size:85%; font-weight:normal;\"> (May 25, 2012)</span></h2>\n{{Main|The Houla massacre}}\n{| style=\"padding:0 6px 0px 6px;width:100%;background:none;vertical-align:top;text-align:justify;\"\n|[[File:Ali-Al-Sayed 1.jpg|right|70px|link=Ali Al-Sayed]]\n\nThe initial ACLOS investigation. The murder of around 108 civilians, among them up to 49 children, in the town of [[Houla:Scene|Taldou]] belonging to Houla in Homs province, is maybe the most famous event that happened in Syria in 2012. It was immediately blamed on the government and led to several countries expelling their Syrian ambassadors. Initially attributed to the use of heavy weapons, it quickly turned out that most of [[Houla:Victims|the victims]] were killed by short-distance violence. This led to the blaming of Alawite \"Shabiha\" militias loyal to Assad. While the UNHRC closed [[Houla:Investigations|their investigation]] in mid August stating to be reasonably certain that indeed government loyalists were the perpetrators, a lot of the [[Houla:Alleged_witnesses|conflicting evidence]] collected in our research was either washed away or not considered at all, while [[Ali_Al-Sayed|contradictions]] in the testimonies of witnesses backing their conclusion were denied. A central question is who was in control over the area at the time - our attempt to answer this based on all collected evidence can be found [[Houla, May 25: Who Was in Control?\u200e|here]].\n\n|}\n\n<h2 style=\"margin:3px; background:#cef2e0; font-size:120%; font-weight:bold; border:1px solid #a3bfb1; text-align:left; color:#000; padding:0.2em 0.4em;\">Homs Massacres<span style=\"font-size:85%; font-weight:normal;\"> (2011-present)</span></h2>\n{{Main|Homs Massacres}}\n{| style=\"padding:0 6px 0px 6px;width:100%;background:none;vertical-align:top;text-align:justify;\"\n|[[File:Homs Districts all labels.png|right|80px|link=Homs Massacres]]\n\nAlthough ''relatively'' secure by now, the city districts and rural surroundings of Homs were home to some of the most shocking massacres of the Syrian war, especially in early 2012 when rebels had control over most of the city (that was following a short-lived Syrian military withdrawal brokered by the U.N. and Arab Laague). The ongoing ACLOS effort to list and analyze as many massacres as possible, so far includes more than 40, accounting for at least 1,400-1,900 deaths of almost strictly civilians victims. Alleged details are compared with common family names, district demographics, and the usual ACLOS techniques, to establish useable insights. Consider the [[Khalidiya Massacre]] of February, 2012, with 138 people killed, rebels said, as family homes were shelled. But the victims were 100% male and 94% adult, pre-segregated just like the prisoners of rebels the other side claimed the victims were. And this one's no fluke; strangely similar patterns repeat over and over in what makes for chilling reading.\n\n|}\n\n<!-- SECOND COLUMN ------------------------------------------------------------->\n\n| style=\"width:50%; border:1px solid #cedff2; background:#f5faff; vertical-align:top;\"|\n{| style=\"padding:0px;margin-top:3px;width:100%;background:#fff9f9;vertical-align:top;\"\n|\n\n<h2 style=\"margin:1px; background:#dd9999; font-size:120%; font-weight:bold; border:1px solid red; text-align:left; color:red; padding:0.2em 0.4em;\">FEATURE: <choose uncached>\n<option>[[OPCW leaks]]</option>\n<option>[[Ukrainegate]]</option>\n<option>[[2019 Coup in Bolivia]]</option>\n<option>[[Venezuela coup attempt 2019]]</option>\n<option>[[Yemeni missile strikes on Saudi Arabia|Yemeni strikes on Saudi Arabia\u200e]]</option>\n<option>[[April 2018 attack on dissent\u200e|The War on dissent]]</option>\n<option>[[Bombing of Nord Stream pipelines]]</option>\n<option>[[Totalitarian Media Regime]]</option>\n</choose>\n</h2>\n\n<h2 style=\"margin:1px; background:#ECEC6E; font-size:120%; font-weight:bold; border:1px solid #8B8B18; text-align:left; color:#000; padding:0.2em 0.4em;\">Ukraine News</h2>\n\n<div style=\"width:100%;height:500px;overflow:auto;padding-top:5px;\">{{:Ukraine news/Current}}</div>\n|}\n\n <h2  style=\"margin:3px; background:#cedff2; font-size:120%; font-weight:bold; border:1px solid #a3b0bf; text-align:left; color:#000; padding:0.2em 0.4em;\">Ukraine<span style=\"font-size:85%; font-weight:normal;\"> (2014 - Today)</span></h2>\n{| style=\"padding:0 6px 0px 6px;width:100%;background:none;vertical-align:top;text-align:justify;\"\n| \nACLOS has covered [[:Category:Ukraine|events in Ukraine]] since the 2014 regime change and through the ensuing conflict. Three most important subjects among many considered: \n* '''[[Maidan snipers]] February, 2014''' Analyzing the mysterious February, 2014 shootings that helped demonize Ukraine's government at just the right time.\n* '''[[Odessa Trade Union massacre]] May 2, 2014''' Analyzing the killing of dozens of pro-federalism activists in Odessa, which the civilized world shrugged at and ignored.  (based on numerous videos of the event, documented authorities response, and witness interviews; still mostly on [[Talk:Odessa Trade Union massacre|talk pages]]). \n* '''[[Crash of Malaysia Airlines flight MH17|MH17]] (2014, July - Today)''' \n:Followed from the very beginning. However still remains mostly on [[Talk:Crash_of_Malaysia_Airlines_flight_MH17|talk page,]]  [[Talk:Crash of Malaysia Airlines flight MH17#Subpages|sub-pages,]] and sub-page talk pages.\n\n|}\n\n <h2  style=\"margin:3px; background:#cedff2; font-size:120%; font-weight:bold; border:1px solid #a3b0bf; text-align:left; color:#000; padding:0.2em 0.4em;\">Kobane<span style=\"font-size:85%; font-weight:normal;\"> (2014, July, September - Summer 2015)</span></h2>\n{{Main|Assault on Kobane}}\n{| style=\"padding:0 6px 0px 6px;width:100%;background:none;vertical-align:top;text-align:justify;\"\n|[[File:Kobane_water_cannon.jpg|right|80px|link=Assault on Kobane]]\n\nA very similar chain of events like years before in Ras Al-Ayn (see below), only this time it made the news (months after we started the article). Not least because this time, the attackers call themselves part of ISIS, the \"newly arrived\" enemy of all that's good and decent.\n\n|}\n\n <h2  style=\"margin:3px; background:#cedff2; font-size:120%; font-weight:bold; border:1px solid #a3b0bf; text-align:left; color:#000; padding:0.2em 0.4em;\">Ras Al-Ayn<span style=\"font-size:85%; font-weight:normal;\"> (November 8, 2012 - Summer 2013)</span></h2>\n{{Main|Assault on Ras Al-Ayn}}\n{| style=\"padding:0 6px 0px 6px;width:100%;background:none;vertical-align:top;text-align:justify;\"\n|[[File:Sere_kaniye_burial.jpg|right|80px|link=Assault on Ras Al-Ayn]]\n\nRas Al-Ayn, directly at the Turkish border in the north-east, early November 2012: The Kurdish dominated and mostly self-governed town gets assaulted by hundreds of Islamist fighters coming across the border from Turkey, under the eyes and with help of the Turkish military. After typical sectarian assaults on the civilian population, Kurdish militia takes up the fight against the foreigners. In the process of the following weeks, the town sees shelling by both the Syrian and the Turkish army, several defeats of the Islamists with retreat behind the Turkish border, and finally a fragile truce. On January 16, again large groups of foreign fighters with tanks cross the Turkish border and heavy clashes break out. After a month of heavy fighting, another peace agreement is signed on February 17. Five months later, following an Islamist attack on female Kurdish fighters, heavy clashes lead to the final conquer of the border station by the Kurds, which leads to increasing tensions in other parts of the region. \n\n|}\n\n <h2  style=\"margin:3px; background:#cedff2; font-size:120%; font-weight:bold; border:1px solid #a3b0bf; text-align:left; color:#000; padding:0.2em 0.4em;\">Tremseh<span style=\"font-size:85%; font-weight:normal;\"> (July 12, 2012)</span></h2>\n{{Main|Tremseh massacre}}\n{| style=\"padding:0 6px 0px 6px;width:100%;background:none;vertical-align:top;text-align:justify;\"\n|[[File:Confiscated_tunisian_passports.jpg|right|80px|link=Tremseh massacre]]\n\nWhen news of this alleged massacre reached the media, it came with alarming numbers of up to 300 civilians murdered in the small village of Tremseh northwest of Hama. In the following hours and days, both pro- and anti-government sources helped to clear the picture of what is now mostly called the \"Battle of Tremseh\" between the army and anti-government fighters who had used the village as their base for operations in the region. The real death toll seems to be some civilians caught in the crossfire and a couple of dozen killed anti-government fighters. In addition, many including foreigners were arrested and their arms and equipment confiscated. \n\n|}\n\n<span style=\"float:right;font-style:italic;\">[[Other research|Other research...]]</span>"
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