…reporting could curtail the excesses of brutal regimes and make the international community take notice.” There was no immediate comment from Remi Ochlik’s agency, IP3 Press. Remi Ochlik, 28, had reported from Haiti and covered many of the recent uprisings in the Arab world. Marie Colvin, in her 50s, had been a foreign correspondent for the Sunday Times for two decades, and had report…
…e action against Syria, he adds. Relations between NATO-member Turkey and Syria, once close allies, have deteriorated sharply since the uprising against Syrian President Bashar al-Assad began in March 2011. Tens of thousands of Syrian refugees have fled the violence across the border into Turkey. Inside Syria, the violence continued on Thursday with state media reporting that “armed terroris…
…etting up a new international monitoring mission. The international community remains divided on Syria, with Russia and China both blocking UN Security Council resolutions on Syria and aid groups from 27 countries urging them to condemn the government’s use of violence. But the two permanent members have backed Kofi Annan’s peace mission. …
…ter the Arab League suspended Syria last November. Lebanese citizens were further caught up in the Syrian crisis on Wednesday when warplanes struck the town of Azaz north of Aleppo, reportedly killing 30 people. Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Qatar and Kuwait have urged their citizens to leave Lebanon amid signs that the conflict in Syria is spilling over into its western neighbor Among those reported wo…
…statement added. Relations between NATO-member Turkey and Syria, once close allies, have deteriorated sharply since the uprising against Syrian President Bashar al-Assad began in March 2011. More than 30,000 Syrian refugees have fled the violence across the border into Turkey. …
…40s, is a commander of a unit of the elite Republican Guard. As a young man he attended military training with President Bashar al-Assad. Gen. Manaf Tlas has been under a form of home arrest since May 2011 because he opposed the security solution that the regime has been implementing, sources say. He also was the first government official to meet the opposition back last year to try to start a dia…
…l airspace when it was hit 1. F-4 Phantom takes off from Erhac airbase, Turkey, at approximately 10:28 local time (07:28 GMT), on 22 June 2. Syria says the jet enters its airspace at 11:40 (08:40 GMT) 3. Turkish military loses contact with the plane at 11:58 (08:58 GMT), while it is over Hatay province 4. Syria says its air defenses engaged aircraft about 1 km (0.6 miles) from the coast and that i…
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…10,000 people had been killed. Syria blames the violence on foreign-backed “armed terrorist gangs”. In June, the Syrian government reported that 6,947 Syrians had died, including at least 3,211 civilians and 2,566 security forces personnel. …
Former Syrian PM Riad Hijab, who defected to Jordan last week, has claimed that President’s Bashar al-Assad regime is collapsing “morally, financially and militarily”. Speaking in the Jordanian capital, Amman, Riad Hijab said the regime controlled no more than 30% of Syrian territory. Riad Hijab called on the opposition abroad to unite and on the Syrian army to stand alongside its peo…
The UN General Assembly has voted by a big majority to condemn its own Security Council for failing to end the unrest in Syria as fighting rages. It passed a non-binding resolution, which also condemns the Syrian government’s use of heavy weapons, by 133 votes to 12 with 31 abstentions. The move came after the resignation of UN envoy Kofi Annan and failure of his six-point peace plan. Gover…
…of heavy weapons, including captured tanks. She urged both sides to show restraint and to distinguish between civilians and fighters in the conflict. Meanwhile, reports suggest army troops have killed 35 people near Damascus, most of them unarmed civilians. They died after government forces shelled and overran the neighborhood of Jdeidet Artouz, southwest of the capital, on Wednesday, activists an…
…unsanitary conditions where the risk of disease is high. Their families are struggling for food as shortages send prices beyond the reach of poorer families. Their education has been disrupted as some 2,000 schools have either been damaged by the fighting or become temporary shelters for displaced people. Syria’s children are the conflict’s “forgotten victims – facing death…
Robert Mood, the former head of the UN observer mission in Syria, says it is “only a matter of time” until President Bashar al-Assad’s government falls. But Norwegian Maj. Gen. Robert Mood, who left Syria last week, said Bashar al-Assad’s fall would not necessarily mean an end to the 16-month-old conflict. Syrian forces renewed their assault on the northern city of Aleppo,…
…ries to Turkey. The move is designed to defend Turkey’s border with Syria. Activists say more than 40,000 people have been killed since the Syrian uprising against President Assad began in March 2011. Hundreds of thousands of people have fled the country and another 2.5 million are displaced within its borders. On Tuesday, a teacher and at least 28 students were killed in a rocket attack on…
…e a statement declaring his peace plan to have failed. Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has come under intensified pressure to adhere to the ceasefire plan since the Houla massacre, in which more than 100 people – many of them children – died. Hillary Clinton, speaking on a visit to Denmark, said the case for military intervention was growing stronger every day. “[The Russians] a…
ay the league is expected to renew the mission for another month. The reports said Saturday’s attack happened in the Mastoumeh area in Idlib province. Sana initially said 14 people had died, and 26 prisoners and six police were injured. An ambulance which came to the aid of victims was also attacked, the agency added. The opposition Syrian Observatory for Human Rights put the number of dead…
More than 20,000 Syrian troops are deployed around Aleppo, military sources say, as fighting rages for control of the country’s second city. Fighter jets, helicopters and artillery have pounded rebel positions ahead of a feared full-scale assault within days. Tanks are trying to push into two key rebel-held areas, the opposition says. In Damascus, another vital battleground in the war, army…
lan calls on Damascus to withdraw troops and heavy weapons from cities. The UN has sent a small advance team of observers to Syria. Last weekend the Security Council approved the deployment of another 300. The UN says about 9,000 people have died since pro-democracy protests began in March 2011. In February, the Syrian government put the death toll at 3,838 – 2,493 civilians and 1,345 securi…
…t has sold thousands of tanks, artillery units, aircraft, helicopters and defense systems to Damascus. In 2007, the two countries signed a deal on the supply of Yakhont missiles which, with a range of 300 km (200 miles), could prove a threat to warships in the Mediterranean. Although there have been growing calls for arms to be channeled to the rebel fighters in Syria, there has so far been very l…
ctors have sought refuge in the city. Activists said most of the deaths were in the residential area of Khalidiya. Reports said a hospital had been destroyed in Khalidiya, and residents said more than 30 houses had been wrecked in the barrage. “We were sitting inside our house when we started hearing the shelling. We felt shells were falling on our heads,” Khalidiya resident Waleed tol…
Turkey has fired into Syria for a fourth day after a Syrian mortar landed near Turkish village Akcakale, reports say. Turkish troops responded immediately after the mortar landed near the village of Guvecci in Hatay province, according to Turkey’s Anadolu Agency. Turkey has been firing into Syria since Syrian mortar fire killed five Turkish civilians on Wednesday. It was the first time Turk…
…g women and children, were killed in the Sunni village of al-Bayda and the nearby coastal town of Baniyas. More than 70,000 people are estimated to have been killed since the conflict erupted in March 2011….
to impose a travel ban and asset freeze on Syria First Lady Asma al-Assad For years there was a perception that Asma al-Assad’s Western upbringing could encourage reform in Syria. Asma al-Assad, 36, who is of Syrian descent but spent much of her life in west London, has generally played a low-key role in the regime. However, in February Asma al-Assad wrote to Britain’s Times newspaper…
Syria has decided to expel the ambassadors of several Western states, a week after governments around the world expelled its top diplomats. The envoys of the US, UK, France and Turkey were among 17 diplomats designated “personae non gratae”. President Bashar al-Assad blamed “foreign meddling” for Syria’s divisions in a speech on Sunday. The move came as activists sai…
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