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Jerusalem Post
| 12 months ago
Is there nothing the international community can do to stop the bloodshed in Syria? On Friday, UN monitors described the smell of burnt flesh and scattered body parts after a visit to the deserted Syrian hamlet of Mazraat al-Qubeir, where a reported...
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Sydney Morning Herald
| 12 months ago
Story continues below ''If the Syrians agree [on Assad's departure] between each other, we will only be happy to support such a solution,'' Mr Lavrov said. ''But it is unacceptable to impose the conditions for such a dialogue from outside. You have...
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The Independent
| 12 months ago
At least 1.5 million people need urgent humanitarian assistance in Syria, aid agencies said yesterday evidence that the impact of what is now a civil war goes far beyond the probable 10,000 dead reported since the insurgency and protests began...Many...
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United Press International
| 12 months ago
At least 19 people died Saturday in shelling by troops and clashes between soldiers and rebel fighters in the southwest Syrian city of Dara'a, activists said. The Local Coordination Committees of Syria said dozens of others were wounded in the city,...
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BBC
| 12 months ago
The Syrian army has killed at least 17 people, including women, during fighting in the southern restive town of Deraa, activists say. They say the shelling began late on Friday and continued overnight. There have been frequent clashes between troops...
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DAWN
| 12 months ago
The Syrian army killed at least 17 civilians, including nine women and three children, in the flashpoint southern town of Daraa early on Saturday, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said. The killings took place in a residential neighbourhood of...
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NOW Lebanon
| 12 months ago
At least 12 people, including eight women, were killed by Syrian army fire in the southern flashpoint town of Daraa overnight Friday, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said. The killings took place in a residential part of the town where the...
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Australian Broadcasting Corporation
| 12 months ago
The United Nations says its monitors have made it into the Syrian village of Qubair and are trying to compile a list of who was killed in a massacre there earlier this week. More than 20 unarmed UN observers were allowed into Al-Kubeir on Friday...
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War In Context
| 12 months ago
A resident of Qubeir who survived the massacre said Friday that the attack took place shortly after an activist wanted by the government, known as Abu Hassan, went to Qubeir. When an army unit based nearby was notified of Abu Hassan's presence, it...
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National Public Radio
| 12 months ago
June 8, 2012 NPR correspondent Deborah Amos joined U.N. monitors and a small group of journalists Friday who were able to enter the Syrian village of Mazraat al-Qubair, where 78 people, including women and children, were killed on Wednesday by pro-...
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Zee News
| 12 months ago
Washington's point man on Syria, Fredrick Hof, was expected to pressure Russia to take a harder line against Syrian President Bashar al-Assad at the meeting. Western leaders have called repeatedly for Assad to stand down as leader of the troubled...
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Sydney Morning Herald
| 12 months ago
Russia and the United States began talks on the Syrian conflict in a bid to narrow their differences before a meeting between their presidents, Vladimir Putin and Barack Obama, in Mexico this month. Fred Hof, the State Department's special envoy to...
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Chicago Tribune
| 12 months ago
United Nations monitors seeking to reach the site of a reported massacre in Syria sent reinforcements to the area on Friday, after they were turned back and shot at a day earlier. A member of the U.N. observer mission said a second team from the...
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NOW Lebanon
| 12 months ago
Germany said Friday it was "horrified" by the latest Syrian massacre and urged Russia to throw its support behind a tougher condemnation of Damascus by the United Nations Security Council. Government spokesperson Steffen Seibert said at a regular...
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National Public Radio
| 12 months ago
United Nations monitors who were turned back Thursday by small arms fire are trying again today to reach a village in central Syria where activists say dozens of civilians were killed this week by army forces or militia fighters loyal to President...
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Daily News & Analysis
| 12 months ago
The voice of Laith al-Hemary's brother whispered on the mobile phone: "There are shouts and screams coming from outside...This was the last time that Mr Hemary, 30, spoke to his brother before he was killed inside the family home in the Syrian hamlet...
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International Business Times
| 12 months ago
United Nations monitors in Syria said they will renew attempts to access the site of the latest massacre in the village of al-Kubeir. Share This Story The Al-Kubeir massacre in the central province of Hama provoked yet another wave of international...
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Fox News
| 12 months ago
Activists say Syrian troops are shelling the rebel-held neighborhood of Khaldiyeh in the central city of Homs. The activists say Friday's bombardment appears to be a preparation for the troops to storm the area, which has been in rebel hands for...
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Washington Post
| 12 months ago
With Syria lurching closer to sectarian warfare, world leaders on Thursday sought to apply new pressure on a government that they said showed no sign of honoring cease-fire agreements or halting the slaughter of noncombatants, but they remained...
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The Independent
| 12 months ago
Suggested Topics For the second time in less than a fortnight, forces loyal to President Bashar al-Assad were accused of carrying out a gruesome massacre of innocent men, women and children yesterday as UN monitors, in Syria to watch over a non-...
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The Independent
| 12 months ago
Upwards of 70 people, including women and children, have been slaughtered. As with Houla, where more than 100 were killed in similarly barbaric ways, President Bashar al-Assad blames "terrorists"; his enemies blame Assad, and inexorably the pressure...
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Washington Post
| 12 months ago
General Robert Mood, the leader of the observer mission, said monitors were trying to enter in Qubair, near the central Syrian town of Hama, to see what had happened, but they were being prevented from doing so. They are being stopped at Syrian Army...
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Zee News
| 12 months ago
The government, however, said only nine people were killed by a "terrorist group". Local Coordination Committees, RIA Novosti reported Thursday citing Al Jazeera. Both the opposition and the government have accused the other of being responsible for...
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NOW Lebanon
| 12 months ago
Russia on Thursday said a new massacre in Syria in which at least 55 civilians were reported killed was a provocation aimed at undermining the faltering peace plan of UN-Arab League envoy Kofi Annan. "There is no question that certain forces, not for...
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BBC
| 12 months ago
US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has condemned violence in Syria as "unconscionable", after claims that 78 people were massacred by pro-government militia in Qubair village on Wednesday. Mrs Clinton said the US was disgusted with the continuing...
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NOW Lebanon
| 12 months ago
The Syrian army is preventing UN observers from reaching a farmland region where at least 55 people were reportedly killed by militants loyal to President Bashar al-Assad, activists said Thursday. "Syrian army troops are preventing UN observers from...
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The independent
| 12 months ago
David Cameron today condemned as brutal and sickening another alleged massacre by a Syrian government militia. Mr Cameron, speaking during a visit to Norway, called for "concerted action" from the international community. Syrian government forces...
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International Business Times
| 12 months ago
Activists say they have found more than 70 bodies in Hama in what appears to be a new massacre conducted by the Syrian security forces and Assad loyalists. Seventy-eight people, including 40 women and children, according to reports out of Hama. The...
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AKI
| 12 months ago
The Syrian National Council (SNC) opposition group called for two days of mourning for the dozens of people allegedly killed by government forces in the southern Hama province. Syria's main opposition group wants on Thursday and Friday wants to...
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The Guardian
| 12 months ago
Syria footage shows aftermath of 'massacre' video Video from social media, not independently verifiable, purports to show a burnt-out house in Kafr Zaita, Hama.
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NOW Lebanon
| 12 months ago
Syria's main opposition group on Thursday called for stepped up military assaults against regime forces following reports of a new massacre of civilians in the central province of Hama. "The Syrian National Council calls on the [rebel] Free Syrian...
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United Press International
| 12 months ago
Iran and other nations could create plan to ease Syrian President Bashar Assad from power, special envoy Kofi Annan was to tell U.N...Annan, a joint U.N.-Arab League envoy, has been in talks with Western and Arab officials about establishing a group...
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Fox News
| 12 months ago
Britain's Prime Minister David Cameron is urging concerted action from the international community against Syrian President Bashar Assad's regime amid reports of another massacre of civilians there. Syrian opposition groups say scores have died in...
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Taiwan News
| 12 months ago
Travel & Delicacy Beauty never Ends Ecological Environment Taiwan News, Staff Writer 2012-06-07 03:57 PM Syria n opposition activists reported a mass killing of villagers, many of them women and children, by pro-government militiamen and security...
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The Guardian
| 12 months ago
Annan at UN amid reports of new massacre live updates Mass killings reported in village near Hama Kofi Annan prepares to brief United Nations Mubarak may be moved from jail to military hospital A Syrian on a motorcycle is reflected in the glass door...
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NOW Lebanon
| 12 months ago
Syria's Muslim Brotherhood on Thursday accused the Damascus regime of being behind a new massacre in the strife-torn country and said the world community, including Arab nations, also bear responsibility. The Islamist group said more than 100 people,...
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Kansas City Star
| 12 months ago
Against the backdrop of a new massacre in Syria, international envoy Kofi Annan on Thursday will propose tasking a group of world powers and key regional players including Iran to come up with a strategy to end the 15-month conflict, U.N. diplomats...
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The Hindustan Times
| 12 months ago
Forces loyal to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad "massacred" about 100 people including women and children, the opposition said, as the US demanded a full transfer of power in the country. The call by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton set the stage...
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Toronto Star
| 12 months ago
Some of those killed in the village of Mazraat al-Qabeer were stabbed to death, the activists said, and at least 12 bodies had been burned. The British-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said its activists on the ground documented a smaller...
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The New York Times
| 12 months ago
The accounts of the mass killing, in the village of Qubeir in central Hama Province, could not be independently corroborated, and United Nations monitors in Syria could not immediately gain access to the site. The accounts said that as many as 78...
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The Observer
| 12 months ago
Syrian forces have been accused of killing 100 people, including women and children, in the village of al-Qubair, near the city of Hama. Photograph: AP Syria 's government was accused on Wednesday of carrying out a new massacre in a small village...
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USA Today
| 12 months ago
Up to 100 Syrians die in new militia attacks Updated Syrian opposition groups and rights monitors reported that pro-government militia men killed up to 100 villages in central Hama province...ET : The Syrian government is denying any involvement,...
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Washington Post
| 12 months ago
There were unconfirmed reports of a fresh massacre in Syria on Wednesday as representatives from 55 countries assembled in Washington to explore ways to sharpen the impact of economic sanctions against the Syrian government. The reports said dozens...
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International Business Times
| 12 months ago
Syrian troops and militiamen loyal to President Bashar al-Assad stood accused by opponents Thursday of a new massacre of scores of villagers, hours before the United Nations Security Council convenes again review the crisis. Share This Story If...
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Australian Broadcasting Corporation
| 12 months ago
Syria rebels told to fight back after new massacre Updated June 07, 2012 09:25:20 Syria's opposition has urged rebels to step up their attacks on regime forces amid reports of a grisly new massacre in Hama province. The AFP news agency, quoting the...
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San Jose Mercury News
| 12 months ago
Representatives from more than 55 countries pressing for the resignation of President Bashar Assad of Syria threatened Wednesday to dramatically expand their financial pressure on his government because of the violent repression of an uprising there,...
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Seattle Post Intelligencer
| 12 months ago
Syrian activists reported a surge of bloodshed in the central Hama province late Wednesday, with at least 23 people killed and possibly many more. The reported mass killings are likely to ignite more anger nearly two weeks after the massacre of more...
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The Age
| 12 months ago
Regime forces have killed about 100 people, including many women and children, in a "massacre" in Syria's central Hama province, the opposition Syrian National Council says. "We have 100 deaths in the village of Al-Kubeir ... among them 20 women and...
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The Observer
| 12 months ago
Activists say pro-regime forces have killed at least 78 people in the province. Photograph: Handout/Reuters Activists say pro-government militia and security forces have killed at least 78 people, including children, in Syria 's central province of...
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New Zealand Infotech Weekly
| 12 months ago
Activists are claiming pro-government militia men and security forces killed at least 78 people, including children, in Syria's central province of Hama overnight (NZ time). Some of those killed in the village of Mazraat al-Qabeer were stabbed to...
