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The Guardian
| 12 months ago
AP Clashes between opposition militias and the Syrian army have continued on the outskirts of Houla, scene of a massacre five days ago, with farmers' fields set alight and reports of new casualties. Residents said they had still been unable to...
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The Guardian
| 12 months ago
A What is known about last week's violence in which more than 100 people, many of them children, were killed? People gather at a mass burial for the victims of last Friday's violence in Houla...It took place in the town of Houla , which is in the...
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Christian Science Monitor
| 12 months ago
The massacre in Houla, Syria, over the weekend pushed Russia to finally denounce the atrocities there. But Moscow also warned that the regime of Bashar al-Assad faces threats from Al Qaeda. Al Qaeda's future in Syria depends on how Sunnis there...
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Toronto Star
| 12 months ago
People gather at a mass burial for the victims of a massacre in the Syrian region of Houla on Saturday. UN observers in Syria have confirmed that artillery and tank shells were fired in Friday's attack and at least 108 people were killed...The...
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The Hindu
| 12 months ago
The killing on May 25 in Syria's Houla region of around 108 people, including a large number of women and children, spurred Kofi Annan, U.N.-Arab League envoy to Syria to visit Damascus on Monday...Mr. Annan said in Damascus he was appalled by the...
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NOW Lebanon
| 12 months ago
Chapter VII of the UN charter deals with action the Security Council might take, including force, in response to threats to the peace, breaches of the peace and acts of aggression. "For the fourth or fifth time, the Security Council failed to take a...
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NOW Lebanon
| 12 months ago
The United Nations, not Syria, must investigate the Houla massacre, Human Rights Watch said adding that witness testimony suggest government forces were responsible for the carnage. "Kofi Annan should push Syria's government to allow the UN-appointed...
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AKI
| 12 months ago
At least 41 people have died in attacks by Syrian security forces in the flashpoint city of Hama in the past 24 hours acording to opposition groups. Five women and eight children were among the victims of the Syrian tank an heavy weaponry offensive...
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NOW Lebanon
| 12 months ago
Violence in Syria killed nearly 90 people on Sunday, more than a third of them in random shelling of Hama city by troops retaliating for losses suffered in clashes with rebels, a watchdog said. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said on Monday...
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Kuwait News Top Stories
| 12 months ago
May 28, 2012 (AFP) -Iran on Monday condemned killings in the Syrian town of Houla, blaming them on "terrorist actions" rather than its Damascus ally and calling for the perpetrators to be punished. Iran "condemns the terrorist actions in the Houla...
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Los Angeles Times
| 12 months ago
Security Council on Sunday blamed Syrian government forces for artillery and tank shelling of residential areas in Houla as officials from the world body raised their estimate of the death toll in the Friday fighting in the town to 108, including 49...
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The Courier-Mail
| 12 months ago
Opposition forces told AFP that 33 more people were killed overnight in a fresh military offensive by government forces in the restive town of Hama, northeast of Houla, while 15 others died in other incidents around the nation. Seven of yesterday's...
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The independent
| 12 months ago
For most of us, reaching eighteen years of age opens up a new world for exploration, spontaneity and.....As England supporters, we should scorn at any such deciding factor within football...Pronouncements on sexual inequality in the UK are normally...
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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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Al Jazeera English
| 12 months ago
Houla massacre that left 108 killed, including 49 children. "The Security Council condemned in the strongest possible terms the killings, confirmed by United Nations observers, of dozens of men, women and children and the wounding of hundreds more in...
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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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Al Jazeera English
| 12 months ago
26 The UN Security Council is to hold a meeting to discuss the recent massacre in the Syrian town of Houla , in which an estimated 90 people, including many children, were killed. The United Nations has blamed Saturday's attack on Syrian government...
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Russia Today
| 12 months ago
Damascus has refuted accusations of being behind a ruthless attack in Houla where over 90 civilians were killed. Political analyst Ibrahim Alloush told RT those killed were actually Assad loyalists, and the timing is suspicious. Friday's attack in...
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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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NOW Lebanon
| 12 months ago
More than 13,000 people have been killed in Syria since an anti-regime revolt broke out in March 2011, Rami Abdel Rahman of the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights told AFP on Sunday. "In total, 13,004 people were killed," Abdel Rahman said, adding...
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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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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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Sydney Morning Herald
| 12 months ago
Story continues below A handout picture released by the Syrian opposition's Shaam News Network shows bodies lying at a hospital morgue after the massacre at the central Syrian town of Houla. Photo: AFP Her call was echoed by UN Secretary-General Ban...
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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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Canada.com
| 12 months ago
Calls mounted Saturday for the international community to take urgent action on Syria after reports of a horrific massacre by regime forces that killed dozens of people, including many children. Britain said it was in urgent talks with allied...
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MarketWatch
| 12 months ago
The bodies of people whom anti-government protesters say were killed by government security forces lie on the ground in Houla, near Homs, on Saturday. The death toll has risen to at least 90 from Syrian shelling, an opposition group said. MarketWatch)...
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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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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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United Press International
| 12 months ago
Syria attack Demonstrators protest against Syria's President Bashar al-Assad after Friday prayers in Al-qsoor near Homs, Syria, March 16, 2012. Syria, May 26 (UPI) -- At least 88 people, many of them children, were killed in a town in the restive...
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Washington Post
| 12 months ago
Opposition groups on Saturday accused Syrian government forces of killing at least 90 people during an intense bombardment of the central village of Houla, amid what appeared to be an escalation in violence in several parts of the country. The...
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The Guardian
| 12 months ago
Syrian forces shelling 'kills at least 90' in Houla video Footage purports to show bodies of some of the 90 people, including many children, who were killed after Syrian forces shelled and attacked the town of Houla in Homs province on Friday. The...
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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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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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BBC
| 12 months ago
Dozens die' in Syria town attack on Homs 26 May 2012 Last updated at 06:11 ET At least 88 people, including many children, have been killed in Syria's restive Homs province, opposition activists say, calling it a "massacre". They said scores were...
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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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NOW Lebanon
| 12 months ago
Syrian regime forces have "massacred" more than 90 people, including 25 children, in the town of Houla, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said on Saturday. Deadly shelling on Friday continued late into the night, the Observatory's Rami Abdel...
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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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NOW Lebanon
| 12 months ago
Syria's main opposition bloc urged the UN Security Council on Saturday to convene an emergency meeting to examine what it called an army massacre near Homs, where it said 110 people were killed. "More than 110 people were killed [half of whom are...
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International Business Times
| 12 months ago
At least 50 civilians including 13 children were killed by the discredited Syrian regime's troops, according to activists. President Bashar Assad's forces, using tanks and heavy machine guns, attacked the area of Houla in the province of Homs, mostly...
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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
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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BBC
| 12 months ago
At least 50 people, including 13 children, have been killed in Syria's restive Homs province, opposition activists say, calling it a "massacre". They said scores were wounded in the violence in Houla, as government forces shelled and attacked the...
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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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BBC
| 12 months ago
Battle for Syrian town of Rastan continues despite ceasefire 25 May 2012 Last updated at 15:24 ET There are reports of fresh demonstrations across Syria following Friday prayers...This comes despite a UN-brokered ceasefire and follows shelling on...
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NOW Lebanon
| 12 months ago
Army tanks were deployed on Friday in Syria's second city Aleppo for the first time since an uprising against the regime erupted 14 months ago, a monitoring group said. The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the tanks rumbled...
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BBC
| 12 months ago
Battle for Syrian town despite UN brokered ceasefire 25 May 2012 Last updated at 07:43 ET There are reports of fresh demonstrations across Syria following Friday prayers...This comes despite a UN brokered ceasefire and follows shelling on Thursday by...
