Syria war: Ten years on, Syrian Christians say Assad 'has taken us hostage'
"His name isn't on the list." Five years on, Najwa, who declined to give her surname for fear of being identified, still remembers feeling nauseous as she pleaded with a Syrian officer for information about her missing son, 16-year-old Hani. She later learned what had happened from a friend of his. Nabil, then 18, told her that a man working with the Syrian army had recruited the two teenagers to join troops based at Tabqa military airport, in the northern Raqqa governorate, to repel an assault by the Islamic State (IS) group. "You Christians are our nation's elite, Bashar [al-Assad] has ...
Source: middleeasteye.net
