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Syria builds massive crematorium at prison: US
The US claims the regime of Syrian President Bashar Assad has built a massive crematorium to burn the bodies of dozens of prisoners at the Sednaya prison outside Damascus.
Assad's forces, backed by Iranian and Lebanese Hezbollah fighters, have in recent days moved dozens of tanks and surface-to-air missiles closer to the eastern front line with the moderate Free Syrian Army units in an apparent warning to the US-led coalition, which flies sorties against IS in the area.
Tensions on the ground were matched by conflict off the battlefield, after the US on Monday said it had intelligence the regime was killing detainees at its most notorious prison on an industrial scale and burning "the evidence" in a crematorium.
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Stuart Jones, the top US diplomat for the Middle East, accused Assad's government of "sinking to a new level of depravity" with the support of ally Russia, which "has either aided in or passively looked away" as the regime has "engaged in years of mass murders" and other atrocities.
Telegraph, UK