Syria has been by far the bloodiest struggle so far, made especially bitter due to its sectarian nature, with the overwhelmingly Sunni rebels pitted against the Alawites, a Shia offshoot, from whom the country's ruling elite are drawn.
Now, at a village near the town of Mara, Abdulhamid described in detail how he had executed rafidis, a pejorative term used by Sunnis for both the Shias and their offshoot, the Alawites, from which Syria's ruling elite is drawn.
Furthermore, the entry of the Shia militia will further demarcate the war along sectarian lines between the Alawites, a Shia offshoot from which President Assad and the ruling elite are drawn and the mainly Sunni opposition.
Reconnaissance flights by Russian drones flying out of Latakia, a stronghold of the Alawite community from which the Syrian President, Bashar al-Assad, and the country's ruling elite are drawn, have largely been over areas controlled by rebel groups, some backed by the US and its allies, rather than Isis-held territory.
"What made someone who had once cautioned against blaming the Alawites - the minority community from which the ruling elite are drawn - for the regime's actions into their virulent hater?" Sengupta asks.
Last year, Judge Boyle agreed with a group of white challengers and struck down the boundaries of North Carolina's 12th Congressional district, ruling that they had been drawn on the basis of race.
Listening to the Chief Magistrate Desmond Nair's ruling was a drawn out process with tweets indicating that Oscar Pistorius could have taken a flight around the world and arrive back in time to hear the verdict.
As it stands City now face a daunting draw against one of four sides due to the ruling that a side cannot be drawn against another team from the same league or the club they played in the group stages.
The ruling may not impact the way North Carolina's map is drawn currently because the state already tweaked its district map after a lower court ruling.
Documentary empirical data were drawn from the comment letters provided to the SEC in response to the proposed change, as well as from the SEC's final ruling document and from related releases.
