Sharmine Narwani

Political analyst and commentator on Mideast geopolitics and a senior associate at St Antony’s College, Oxford University

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Syria: The hidden massacre
Sunday 11 May 2014
The attack took place shortly after the first stirrings of trouble in the southern Syrian city of Daraa in March 2011. Several old Russian-made military trucks packed with Syrian security forces rolled onto a hard slope on a valley road between Daraa al-Mahata and Daraa al-Balad. Unbeknown to the passengers, the sloping road was slick with oil poured by gunmen waiting to ambush the troops. Brakes were pumped as the trucks slid into each other, but the shooting started even before the (...) continue