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Initial reports indicated that the perpetrators were members of armed groups supporting the security forces and elements associated with the Assad regime, he added.

"There's a lot of stigma and shame attached to it, and people don't realise that it's associated with a medication," she says.

"He's much more of a pragmatist than an ideologue," said James Orr, associate professor of philosophy of religion at the University of Cambridge and a friend whom Vance has described as his "British sherpa".

"There are reports of summary executions on a sectarian basis by unidentified perpetrators, by members of the caretaker authorities' security forces, as well as by elements associated with the former government," he added.

He also stressed his dominance on issues associated with the ‘culture wars,’ e.g.,