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Sunday 20 September 2020
Amnesty International say the coalition has only admitted to around 10% of the deaths.
The city’s loss would be the latest in a string of heavy blows for IS.
IS replaced the traditional curriculum in schools, it taught children how to carry out suicide attacks and boasted about the “virgins” with which the attacker could be rewarded.
More than 320,000 people have been killed in Syria since the conflict began with anti-government demonstrations in March 2011.
The new restriction comes as a Kurdish-Arab alliance of fighters nears Raqa, backed by the US-led coalition launching air strikes against IS.
US Special Forces say they’ve currently no plans to take the de facto capital of Raqqa.
Meanwhile, the hunt for Salah Abdeslam continues.
Two people have now been charged with involvement with terrorism following the attacks.
The United Arab Emirates, meanwhile, said it would station a squadron of F-16 warplanes in Jordan.
US officials have declined to comment on the reports.
Clashes across the country have continued today as some estimates now put the death toll from the civil war at over 29,000 since early last year.
MORE THAN THREE-quarters of people would support the government looking into the prospect of a four-day work week, according to a new survey.
This means doing the same job for the same salary, but over four days rather than five.
There have been calls for this idea to be explored already and the Four Day Week Ireland campaign today released details on its public attitude survey conducted last month.
Two out of three respondents said a four-day work week is “realistic and achievable” in the medium term.
67% of employers said they support the idea and 46% said it would be “feasible” to trial in their workplace.
“The four-day week, with no loss of pay, offers the potential of a genuinely better future for workers and employers alike,” said Joe O’Connor, director of campaigning with Fórsa trade union.
What may once have seemed like a radical concept is now, for many, a reasonable and rational ambition. The Covid-19 pandemic has further disrupted societal and workplace norms, while illustrating the potential for very different models of work.
So today we’re asking: Would you support a four-day work week?
Poll Results:
Share your story: voices@thejournal.ie
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