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Arab News
| 12 months ago
Tariq Alhomayed Sunday 27 May 2012 The New York Times has revealed that US Russian talks are taking place to implement the Yemeni solution in Syria, and this is in the hopes of securing Bashar Assad's withdrawal from power along the lines of Yemen's...
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Sydney Morning Herald
| 12 months ago
Senator Carr's comments coincided with the UN Security Council's condemnation of the Syrian government "in the strongest possible terms" for the attacks, in which many children died. A statement agreed by the 15-nation council, including Syrian ally...
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Epoch Times
| 12 months ago
May 27, 2012 Syrian foreign ministry spokesman Jihad al-Makdissi addresses journalists in Damascus May 27 regarding the massacre in the central town of Houla. (Louai Beshara/AFP/GettyImages) Syria categorically denied responsibility for a massacre...
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News 24
| 12 months ago
The UN Security Council held an emergency meeting on Sunday on the situation in Syria, hearing that the toll from a massacre in the town of Houla had risen to 116 dead and 300 injured. The new toll, revealed via video-link by the head of the UN...
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Russia Today
| 12 months ago
The UN Security Council has convened for an urgent session in New York to hear a report over the shelling in Syria's Houla, which killed at least 90 people on Friday. Britain and France are pressing for a statement condemning the Syrian government. ...
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The Guardian
| 12 months ago
Burning cars at the scene of two suicide bombs in Damascus on 10 May 2012...Last Friday's savage clashes at Houla , a village in the Syrian province of Homs, have aroused international indignation against the government of President Bashar al-Assad.
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Los Angeles Times
| 12 months ago
Syrian authorities on Sunday denied responsibility for a weekend massacre in the central town of Houla that the United Nations said left about 90 people dead, more than a third of them children. The killings documented in grisly Internet images of...
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The Guardian
| 12 months ago
Anonymous/AP At noon on Friday, they gathered for their familiar and increasingly futile weekly ritual an act of peaceable defiance against the regime they loathe. The chants resounded far and wide, audible to the army troops menacingly nearby and to...
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NOW Lebanon
| 12 months ago
Britain will lean on Russia to get Syria to implement the Annan peace plan and will consider other measures to stop the violence if the proposals fail, Foreign Secretary William Hague said Sunday. Hague, who is travelling to Moscow for talks with his...
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B92
| 12 months ago
The main rebel group in Syria has said that it will not respect the cease-fire agreement if the UN doesn't act to protect civilians. The Syrian government, meanwhile, has blamed the massacre in Houla on terrorists. The rebel Free Syrian Army has...
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MarketWatch
| 12 months ago
The bodies of some of the more than 90 people whom anti-government protesters say were killed by government security forces lie on the ground in Huola, near Homs on Saturday. MarketWatch) Syria on Sunday denied blame for killing 32 children and at...
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SwissInfo
| 12 months ago
It has called for an international investigation and punishment of those responsible. The foreign ministry on Sunday said Switzerland would work within the United Nations to ensure that the perpetrators of this heinous massacre, which could meet the...
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NOW Lebanon
| 12 months ago
Syrian opposition head Burhan Ghalioun called on Sunday for a "battle of liberation" against the regime until the United Nations takes action under Chapter Seven which allows military intervention. "I call on the Syrian people to lead a battle of...
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Voice of America
| 12 months ago
VOA News May 27, 2012 The Syrian government has denied its troops massacred at least 92 people, about one-third of them children, Friday in the town of Houla. Foreign Ministry Spokesman Jihad Makdissi called accusations against the Syrian government...
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The Daily Star
| 12 months ago
Demonstrators protest in front of the Syrian consulate in Istanbul on May 27, 2012 against the regime of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. The head of a UN mission warned of "civil war" in Syria after his observers counted more than 92 bodies, 32 of...
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Washington Post
| 12 months ago
Opposition groups claim at least 90 people died in the bombardment of the village Friday night, and the United Nations said in a statement Saturday that its monitors had visited the village and confirmed the killings of dozens of men, women and...
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The Age
| 12 months ago
Foreign Minister Bob Carr said Australia's UN ambassador would also discuss with member states the possibility of referring the massacre to the International Criminal Court (ICC). The UN has said 92 bodies, 32 of them children aged under 10, were...
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Voice of America
| 12 months ago
VOA News May 27, 2012 Syrian officials say Damascus is not responsible for the massacre in a village that killed at least 92 people, including dozens of children. A Foreign Ministry spokesman, Jihad Makdissi, told reporters in Damascus Sunday that...
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Jerusalem Post
| 12 months ago
This is not the hallmark of the heroic Syrian army," Syrian Foreign Ministry spokesman says of assault that killed more than 90, blames "terrorists" for massacre. Syrian authorities on Sunday denied carrying out a massacre after opposition activists...
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USA Today
| 12 months ago
Government troops shelled residential areas in central Syria on Sunday, activists said, two days after the bombardment of a string of villages in the same region killed more than 90, many of them children. Friday's assault on Houla, an area northwest...
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Daily News & Analysis
| 12 months ago
The United Nations has strongly condemned the massacre of at least 92 civilians, including 32 children, in a village near Homs in Syria, leading global calls for urgent action against those responsible for the "appalling and brutal crime." Houla,...
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The Hindustan Times
| 12 months ago
The Syrian army kept up its bombardment of rebel strongholds on Sunday despite an international outcry over the killing of 92 people, a third of them children, in the shelling of a central town. Arab and Western governments expressed outrage at the "...
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International Business Times
| 12 months ago
In one of the worst violence since the Syrian uprising, more than 90 civilians have been killed including 32 children in an attack on a single day by the Assad regime's forces. The UN observers who are in Syria counted at least 90 bodies after...
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BBC
| 12 months ago
Western nations are pressing for a response to the massacre in the Syrian town of Houla, with the US calling for an end to what it called President Bashar al-Assad's "rule by murder". UK Foreign Secretary William Hague has called for an emergency...
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National Public Radio
| 12 months ago
Eyder Peralta It's hard to look at the images coming out of Syria today. They show the bloodied bodies of dozens of children strewn on the floors of morgues. Some of them are just babies, their gazes frozen, still wearing the outfits they had on when...
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The Globe & Mail
| 12 months ago
Video Video Video Activists say Syria's military and pro-regime militia have killed more than 90 people in the village of Houla, including at least 32 children under the age of 10. The government blames terrorists a term it uses to describe the...
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Arab News
| 12 months ago
Robert Mood yesterday condemned the brutal tragedy in Houla, where he said 92 bodies, including those of more than 32 children, had been counted. Mood said he condemns in the strongest possible terms the brutal tragedy in Houla in the central...
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Kuwait Times
| 12 months ago
UN observers rushed yesterday to a town in central Syria where scores of civilians were reportedly massacred, including 32 children, as the armed opposition renewed calls for air strikes on regime forces. The Free Syrian Army (FSA) also announced it...
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NOW Lebanon
| 12 months ago
UN leader Ban Ki-moon and UN-Arab League envoy Kofi Annan on Saturday condemned a massacre of more than 90 civilians in Syria as a "brutal" breach of international law by the government, a spokesperson said. Ban and Annan "condemn in the strongest...
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Russia Today
| 12 months ago
The UN General-Secretary Ban Ki-moon believes Al-Qaeda was behind two suicide car-bomb attacks in Syria that claimed 55 lives and injured 372 last week. Shaam News Network/Handout) The Free Syrian Army has declared that it will no longer honor the UN-...
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NOW Lebanon
| 12 months ago
The UN mission chief in Syria Major General Robert Mood on Saturday condemned the "brutal tragedy" in Houla, where he said 92 bodies, including those of more than 32 children, had been counted. Mood said he condemns "in the strongest possible terms...
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NOW Lebanon
| 12 months ago
Britain said Saturday it was in urgent talks with allied countries on "a strong international response" after the bodies of more than 90 people including children were found in a Syrian town. "We are consulting urgently with our allies on a strong...
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Al Jazeera English
| 12 months ago
09 The report by Rosiland Jordan contains graphic images The Free Syrian Army has said it can no longer commit to the ceasefire brokered by UN-Arab League envoy Kofi Annan unless there is an immediate solution to regime violence. "We announce that...
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The New York Times
| 12 months ago
Lebanon Syrian opposition organizations on Saturday accused government forces of carrying out a massacre in a village near Homs, leaving about 100 people dead, many of them children, with gory images of the aftermath prompting an emotional outpouring...
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NOW Lebanon
| 12 months ago
The opposition Syrian National Council has urged the UN Security Council to act urgently after claiming that regime forces massacred scores of civilians, including many children, in the town of Houla. French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius condemned...
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NOW Lebanon
| 12 months ago
Syrian's Muslim Brotherhood on Saturday said it will reevaluate its policies and positions following the massacre that was committed in the Syrian town of Houla on Friday. The group said in a statement: The brutal carnage that was committed on Friday...
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B92
| 12 months ago
At least 90 people have been killed by Syrian forces in Homs province, an activist group has reported. (Beta, file) The latest violence came as the UN secretary general condemned the lack of progress towards peace in Syria. At least 90 people were...
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NOW Lebanon
| 12 months ago
France condemns the "massacre" by Syrian forces which reportedly killed more than 90 people in the town of Houla and calls for greater international action, Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius said Saturday. "I am making immediate arrangements for a...
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The Daily Star
| 12 months ago
France called for immediate implementation of Kofi Annan's peace plan for Syria on Saturday and said it would summon a meeting of the Friends of Syria group after activists said 90 people were killed in Syrian shelling. Condemning the violence on...
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Voice of America
| 12 months ago
May 26, 2012 A team of U.N. observers has arrived in the Syrian town of Houla, where activists say intense government shelling has killed at least 90 people since Friday, including 25 children. The attacks could further strain a fragile six-week-old...
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Al Sharq Al Awsat
| 12 months ago
Lebanon said on Friday that a group of Lebanese Shi'ites kidnapped in Syria had been freed and were safe in Turkey, but produced no sign of the hostages at the centre of a kidnap drama heightening tensions over the conflict in neighboring Syria. The...
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NOW Lebanon
| 12 months ago
The rebel Free Syrian Army called on Saturday for the Friends of Syria to carry out air strikes on the forces of President Bashar al-Assad after more than 90 people, including 25 children, were reportedly "massacred" in the town of Houla. Turkey-...
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Al Jazeera English
| 12 months ago
55 At least 50 people have been killed in an attack by Syrian government forces and loyalists on Houla, a town in Homs province, activists say. The victims of Friday's assault included at least dead 13 children, killed after government forces tried...
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Zee News
| 12 months ago
Massacre' in Homs, at least 50 killed Zeenews Bureau Beirut: At least 50 civilians, including 13 children, were killed on Friday in central Syria in what opposition activists say was a "massacre". The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights...
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Australian Broadcasting Corporation
| 12 months ago
The latest flare-up of violence came as Kofi Annan, the UN-Arab League envoy to Syria who brokered a repeatedly-violated ceasefire last month, finalised plans to return to Damascus. Diplomats in Geneva said the former UN secretary general would visit...
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Arab News
| 12 months ago
Ali Bluwi Friday 25 May 2012 As we have said before, a mass killer cannot transform into a messenger of peace. Equally important is the fact that deception through media cannot lead to or reinforce stability or national security. Experts argue that...
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Arab News
| 12 months ago
Syrian troops opened fired on democracy activists yesterday who took to the streets across the country demanding regime change, monitors said, as armed rebels vowed to protect peaceful protests. International peace mediator Kofi Annan will visit...
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NOW Lebanon
| 12 months ago
Syrian groups fighting President Bashar al-Assad now control "significant" parts of some cities, UN leader Ban Ki-moon said in his latest report on the worsening conflict. UN efforts to end the conflict have seen only "small progress" and there is "...
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Jerusalem Post
| 12 months ago
The soldiers are shelling Houla right now, the casualties are huge," said activist Ahmad Kassem. He said opposition fighters fired back, inflicting casualties on the soldiers and destroying five tanks...Also Friday, international peace mediator Kofi...
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International Business Times
| 12 months ago
Kofi Annan plans to visit Damascus for the second time since the start of President Bashar al-Assad's crackdown on anti-government protestors began in March 2011. Annan, a United Nations -Arab League special envoy to Syria, could arrive as soon as...
