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Security Service: The Cleaner Received Money from Extremist

The janitor who found the former security adviser Henrik Landerholm's secret papers is linked via a bank transfer to a Chechen extremist. Terror researcher Magnus Ranstorp calls it remarkable that the conference center did not control its janitors better.

Israeli Raids Against Targets Near Aleppo

Tens of thousands return to Syria from Turkey

"Dark Night Hunt for Syria's Missing"

In prisons and morgues, Syrians desperately search for husbands, brothers, and sons. Nameless bodies bear witness to the regime's brutality. Someone is missing eyes, along a neck, the marks of a rope are visible. Tens of thousands of people are missing after decades of dictatorship. For the relatives, a new era of uncertainty has begun.

Samar Yazbek Returns – Wants to Live in Damascus

Syria's future stands and weighs. Samar Yazbek wants to return to build up the country – while exile poet Raafat Hekmat tries to influence from exile. All writers and journalists should make their voices heard now, he says.

Syria's notorious prisons – a cash cow for the regime

Syria's prisons were not only a tool for brutal oppression against the regime's opponents. They are also believed to have generated billions of kronor for dictator Bashar al-Assad and his supporters.

"Dark Night Hunt for Syria's Disappeared"

In prisons and morgues, Syrians desperately search for husbands, brothers, and sons. Nameless bodies bear witness to the regime's brutality. Someone is missing eyes, along a neck, the marks of a rope are visible. Tens of thousands of people are missing after decades of dictatorship. For the relatives, a new era of uncertainty has begun.

So the attack that toppled Assad was planned

For several years, the Islamist movement HTS planned how they would overthrow the Assad regime. The only thing they were waiting for was the right moment, according to the military chief Abu Hassan al-Hamwi.