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The Amnesty report said an average of 20-50 people were hanged each week at the Sednaya military prison north of Damascus. Between 5,000 and 13,000 people were executed at Sednaya in the four years after Syria’s popular uprising descended into civil war, it said.

Reveal the truth about executions, Amnesty tells Assad

A child walks through rubble of damaged buildings in Al-Rai town, northern Aleppo countryside. — Reuters

Syria regime, opposition set for first face-to-face at Astana

A Syrian refugee woman walks back to her shelter carrying bags of food at the refugee camp of Ritsona about 86 km north of Athens, Wednesday. Over 62,000 refugees and migrants are stranded in Greece after a series of Balkan border closures and an European Union deal with Turkey to stop migrant flows. — AP

Transition toward peace can’t involve Assad, asserts Turkey

Peter Apps

The lessons of Aleppo’s long, pointless siege

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US says Syrian regime using starvation as ‘weapon of war’

Hussein Shobokshi

The burning Aleppo will rise again!

John Lloyd

Putin's Syria playbook? To recapture Soviet glory.

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Assad must leave 6 months into transition: Opposition

A Syrian man mourns the death of a child following airstrikes in the rebel-controlled neighborhood of Saleheen in the northern Syrian city of Aleppo. — AFP

Amid deafening silence, chorus for no-fly zone in Syria grows

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Syrians vote; diplomacy struggles

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No end in sight to Assad’s atrocities

Internally displaced children, covered with mud, wait with their families as they are stuck in the town of Khirbet Al-Joz, in Latakia countryside, waiting to get permission to cross into Turkey near the Syrian-Turkish border, Syria, February 7, 2016. — Reuters

Intractable Syria

Annia Ciezadlo

The medieval tactic shaping the Syrian civil war

Marcell Shehwaro, executive director of Kesh Malek, a Syrian activist group that runs schools in opposition-held areas of Aleppo, poses for a photograph in London, Britain. — Reuters

In Aleppo, underground schools face bombardments and burnout

United Nations Independent Commission of Inquiry on Syrian Arabic Republic Chairman Paulo Pinheiro (L) and co-commissioner Carla del Ponte hold a news conference at the United Nations European headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland. — Reuters

Mass deaths in Syrian jails amount to crime of extermination: UN

Brig. Gen. Ahmed Al-Assiri

Asiri: Kingdom ready to participate in any ground operations in Syria

People wait to leave the besieged town of Madaya, northwest of Damascus, Syria. In the besieged eastern city of Deir El-Zour, supplies are running so short that people are selling their gold and other property for food or an exit permit allowing them to escape both the government and Daesh (the so-called IS) militants who rule the region of Syria. — AP photo

In the line of fire

John Kerry

Kerry to chair UN Security Council meeting on Syria

Syrians and members of the government forces gather as hundreds of civilians and rebels began evacuating the last opposition-held district of Waer in the central city of Homs, on Wednesday under a deal with the Syrian regime. — AFP

Rebels begin evacuating last Homs area under truce deal

Amin Gemayel, Former Lebanese president

Christian leader casts doubt on Lebanon presidential accord