French Journalist Detained by Israeli Troops in Syria

French journalist Sylvain Mercadier was detained on Wednesday for over four hours, during which he was “threatened and humiliated” by Israeli forces while reporting on their advance in Syria. Mercadier was reportedly in the southwestern Syrian province of Quneitra where Israeli forces have been seizing additional territory beyond what they already occupied of the Golan Heights.

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    Dr. Marwan Asmar holds a PhD from Leeds University and is a freelance writer specializing on the Middle East. He has worked as a journalist since the early 1990s in Jordan and the Gulf countries, and been widely published, including at Albawaba, Gulf News, Al Ghad, World Press Review and others.

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