‘You don’t have to overplay these things’ Francois saw unimaginable horrors while detained. When ISIS held him in an Aleppo hospital, he routinely heard and saw the aftermath of his captors’ torture of local Syrians and Iraqis who fell afoul of their hardline rules. “We could see some of them in the corridors when we were taken to the toilets,” he said, “and we could see some people lying in their
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