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Syria Detains Opponents, as It Reasserts Control
(Wall Street Journal) Raja Abdulrahim - As President Assad's regime regains territory from weakened rebels six years into the Syrian war, opposition activists and residents say it is using mass detentions and other tactics to snuff out dissent in places that were out of its control for years. Nearly 2,000 people were caught in a regime dragnet in the final month as Aleppo fell to the government, according to the opposition group Syrian Network for Human Rights. Former residents of Aleppo and activist groups say that since the regime consolidated control over the entire city, it has arrested people who took part in protests, nurses and doctors who treated the victims of Russian and regime airstrikes, and humanitarian workers.