Syria: String of extrajudicial killings targets Assad affiliates

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Syria: String of extrajudicial killings targets Assad affiliates

Several Syrian provinces have witnessed a string of extrajudicial killings and assassinations targeting former members of militias loyal to the ousted regime of Bashar Al-Assad in recent days. In Aleppo, four individuals from the Meido family were allegedly kidnapped by unidentified gunmen who stormed the Sheikh Saeed neighbourhood where they lived, before all four were shot dead. The four relatives were reportedly formerly part of a local milit…