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| Baath Party (Syria) | Arab Socialist Baath Party; the ruling political party in Syria headed by Syrian President Bashar al-Assad |
D |
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| DIS | Danish Immigration Service |
F |
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| FSA | Free Syrian Army |
G |
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| GoS | Government of Syria |
H |
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| HAD | Hurras al-Din |
| Hezbollah | Lebanese Hezbollah; Lebanese Shia Islamist armed militant group backed by Iran and active on behalf of Assad in Syria |
| HTS | Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham |
I |
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| ICTR |
International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda
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| ICTY |
International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia
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| ID | Identification documentation |
| IDP | Internally displaced person |
| IED | Improvised explosive device |
| ILAC | International Legal Assistance Consortium |
| IPA | Internal Protection Alternative |
| IRGC | Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps |
| ISIL | The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, also known as the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), the Islamic State, or Daesh |
| ISW | Institute for the Study of War |
J |
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| Jaysh al-Islam | Sunni Salafist Jihadist armed opposition group active in Eastern Ghouta outside Damascus; rival of Faylaq al-Rahman |
K |
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| KNC | Kurdish National Council |
L |
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| LDF | Local Defence Forces, Quwat al Difa al Mahalli |
| LGBTIQ |
LGBTIQ people are people:
who are attracted to others of their own gender (lesbian, gay) or any gender (bisexual);
whose gender identity and/or expression does not correspond to the sex they were assigned at birth (trans, non-binary);
who are born with sex characteristics that do not fit the typical definition of male or female (intersex); and
whose identity does not fit into a binary classification of sexuality and/or gender (queer).
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N |
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| NDF | National Defence Forces, Quwat al Difa al Watani |
| NGO | Non-governmental organisation |
| NLF | National Liberation Front |
P |
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| PHC | Primary Healthcare Centre |
| PKK | Kurdistan Worker’s Party (Partiya Karkerên Kurdistanê) |
| PYD | Popular Mobilisation Forces |
Q |
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| QD (Qualification Directive) | Directive 2011/95/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council of 13 December 2011 on standards for the qualification of third-country nationals or stateless persons as beneficiaries of international protection, for a uniform status for refugees or for persons eligible for subsidiary protection, and for the content of the protection granted |
R |
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| RPG | Rocket-propelled grenades |
S |
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| SAA | Syrian Arab Army |
| SDF | Syrian Democratic Forces |
| Shabiha | A pro-government militia |
| Sharia | The religious law of Islam, Islamic canonical law |
| SNA | Syrian National Army |
| SNHR | Syrian Network for Human Rights |
| SOHR | Syrian Observatory for Human Rights |
| Suqour al-Sahara | Desert Hawks; former irregular armed group supportive of Assad in Syria backed by wealthy Syrian Alawites |
| SYP | Syrian pound |
T |
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| Taswiyat al-Wad´ | the process of regulating one’s status |
| TEV-DEM | Movement for a Democratic Society (Tevgera Civaka Demokratîk) |
| TIP | Turkistan Islamic Party |
U |
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| UN | United Nations |
| UNHCR | United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees |
| UNICEF | United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund |
| UNOCHA | United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs |
| UNPFA | United Nations Population Fund |
| UNRWA | The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East |
| US | United States of America |
| USCIRF | United States Commission on International Religious Freedom |
V |
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| VBIED | Vehicle-borne improvised explosive device |
| VDC | Violations Documentation Center in Syria |
W |
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| Wasta | Networks of support based on patronage |
Y |
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| YPG | Kurdish People’s Protection Units |
| YPJ | Kurdish Women’s Protection Units |