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Video Chess, smokes, therapy for ex-jihadists at Syria rehab centre
Agence France-Presse | @justearthnews | 14 Dec 2017, 09:31 am Print
In a rehabilitation centre in northern Syria, young men huddle over an innocuous game of chess and some cigarettes -- activities they once brutally suppressed as Islamic State group jihadists. Based in the rebel-held town of Marea, the Syrian Centre for Countering Extremist Ideology is home to around 100 one-time IS fighters from Syria, the Middle East and even Europe.
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