https://www.newsdeeply.com/syria/contributor/ronak-housaine-alison-meuse/rss en Civil Society Human Rights Tue, 24 Sep 2013 00:00:00 +0000 Ronak Housaine & Alison Meuse https://www.newsdeeply.com/syria/articles/2013/09/24/a-syrian-backlash-against-al-qaida https://www.newsdeeply.com/syria/articles/2013/09/24/a-syrian-backlash-against-al-qaida The al- Qaida-affiliated Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), known colloquially by its Arabic acronym, ‘Daesh,’ has earned the disdain of Syrian civilians for its brutal practices and hard-line ideology.