overseers

Because The Truth has no official leader, the BBC instead contacted six of its most senior current officials - known as "overseers" - for comment.

But so far, he said, Syria’s new overseers have been unfailingly polite, announcing soon after their arrival on the mosque loudspeaker that residents could come visit the tomb without harassment.

But they want to help, no matter their greedy overseers.

His grandparents were strict, like overseers on a slave plantation – he couldn't really go anywhere, stay out too late or wear anything too flashy.

And they were kept at it, under the eye of the ever-present overseers, without rest except to eat, until dark.