Tag: Syria’s Islamist authoritY

Some 150 Syrians became the first graduates of the country’s new police academy for women, as the Islamist authorities rebuild their security apparatus. Rows of new policewomen, mostly wearing hijabs below their regulation hats and berets, lined up holding weapons for the ceremony, before they joyfully embraced their families. Brigadier-General Huda Sarjawi, director of the Women’s...