Aid worker Tauqir Sharif’s citizenship was revoked in 2017, after working on humanitarian projects in the region for four yearsA British man living in rebel-held northwest Syria has been abducted by the area’s dominant jihadist group, his family has said.Tauqir Sharif and his wife, Racquell Hayden Best, from Walthamstow, east London, have been working on humanitarian projects in Syria since 2013 and are currently living with their five children in Idlib province, the last opposition bastion of the country. Idlib has been controlled by Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), a militant group with links to al-Qaida, since January 2019. Continue reading…
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