Inside Syria's prisons: Alex Crawford speaks to a British ISIS fighter
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🗓️ 18 March 2025
⏱️ 20 minutes
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It's a time of particular upheaval in the country - since the new regime took over in Damascus, ISIS attacks have doubled. Alex tells us about the British ISIS fighter she met in the prison - Hamza Parvez, the first Briton to openly declare he was fighting for ISIS in 2014.
Alex’s visit forms part of a bigger conversation about how new president Ahmed al Sharaa is looking to make a deal with a patchwork of ethnically run territories in the northeast region, to join him in a united Syria. Producer: Rosie Gillott Editor: Philly Beaumont
Producer: Rosie Gillott
Editor: Philly Beaumont
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| 1:02.5 | Coming up on the Sky News Daily with me Neil Patterson. Our special correspondent Alex Crawford takes us inside a Syrian prison |
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