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United Press International
| 10 months ago
Fighting was reported in the Syrian capital of Damascus Monday, a day after the government denied it used heavy weapons to attack a farming community last week. The fighting in Damascus began Sunday in a neighborhood southwest of the city's center in...
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AKI
| 10 months ago
The deadly attack on the Syrian village of Tremseh last Thursday appeared to have singled out defectors from the embattled regime of Bashar al-Assad and anti-government activists, United Nations observers have said. "On the basis of some of the...
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United Press International
| 10 months ago
Killings in the Syrian village of Tremseh apparently resulted from a regime raid against rebels, not a deliberate massacre of civilians, U.N. observers say. "The [Thursday] attack appears targeted at army defectors and activists," observers from the...
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Washington Post
| 10 months ago
An activist, whose brother was killed in fighting several months ago, leads a funeral procession in revolutionary chants in Yabroud, Syria on July 7, 2012. The funeral was for a rebel fighter from Homs who was evacuated to the hospital here but...
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The New York Times
| 10 months ago
As continued fighting was reported in locations across Syria , the International Committee of the Red Cross said in Geneva on Sunday that it now considered the conflict a civil war. Jihad Makdissi, a spokesman for the Syrian Foreign Ministry, said...
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The Guardian
| 10 months ago
Edlib News Network/AP The International Committee of the Red Cross says Syria is now in a state of civil war, a definition it suggests could change rules of engagement in the violence-ravaged country and help lay the ground for war crimes...
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BBC
| 10 months ago
Syria has become so widespread that the conflict is now in effect a civil war. The change in status means combatants will now be officially subject to the Geneva Conventions, leaving them more exposed to war crimes prosecutions. The Red Cross had...
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Zee News
| 10 months ago
Hicham Hassan said. "International humanitarian law applies to all areas where hostilities are taking place," he added. Homs, Hama and Idlib and termed them as localised civil wars between government forces and armed opposition. But later as the...
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Al Jazeera English
| 10 months ago
21 Syria has denied accusations by special envoy Kofi Annan that state forces used heavy weapons or helicopters in clashes in the village of Tremseh last week, where activists said there was a massacre of over 100 people.
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Zee News
| 10 months ago
According to Xinhua, the Lebanese NBN TV network said 10 people were killed...First Published: Sunday, July 15, 2012, 09:41 Comments Post your Comments Most liked Comments
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Los Angeles Times
| 10 months ago
Turkey United Nations observers visited an alleged massacre site in Syria on Saturday but reached no conclusion about whether the killings were a deliberate slaughter of civilians or the result of clashes between government troops and insurgents.
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Al Jazeera English
| 10 months ago
02 An attack earlier this week on a western Syrian village that the opposition has described as a "massacre" mainly targeted army defectors and anti-government activists, according to United Nations observers who visited the scene.
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The Dallas Morning News
| 10 months ago
U.N. observers investigating a reported mass killing in a Syrian village on Saturday found pools of blood in homes and spent bullets, mortars and artillery shells, adding details to the emerging picture of what anti-regime activists have called one...
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United Press International
| 10 months ago
More than 50 civilians were killed across Syria by government attacks Saturday, activists said. The Syrian Network for Human Rights and the Damascus Center for Human Rights Studies released a list of 52 people, most identified by name and with ages,...
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Sydney Morning Herald
| 10 months ago
New battleground commander of the UN mission in Syria Major-General Robert Mood. Photo: AFP The general leading the suspended United Nations monitoring mission in Syria has said there had been persistent fighting around the town of Tremseh, where...
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The New York Times
| 10 months ago
The United Nations observers still on the ground in Syria sent a team to the village of Tremseh on Saturday to investigate what had happened, said Sausan Ghosheh, the spokesman for the monitors in Damascus, the Syrian capital. A combination of videos,...
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Sky News
| 10 months ago
UN observers have apparently reached the village of Tremseh in Syria's Hama province where scores of people were reportedly killed this week. The Syrian army launched an air and ground assault on the village on Thursday, but claimed that only "...
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China News
| 10 months ago
A Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Saturday strongly condemned the recent attacks in the Syrian village of Tremseh in the province of Hama, which reportedly resulted in over 200 deaths. Spokesman Liu Weimin said in a statement that China strongly...
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The Daily Star
| 10 months ago
The Daily Star A girl holds up a picture and shout slogans against Syria's President Bashar al-Assad, in Bennish, near Idlib July 13, 2012. Lebanese Forces leader Samir Geagea condemned over the weekend Thursday's massacre near the Syrian city of...
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Voice of America
| 10 months ago
VOA News July 14, 2012 U.N. observers in Syria have left their headquarters in Damascus to try to reach a village where more than 150 people were killed in an attack on Thursday. Observers were seen loading their vehicles Saturday before setting off...
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Zee News
| 10 months ago
In a statement released here by his spokesman, Ban said he is "outraged" by reports of horrific mass killings in the Syrian village of Treimseh in Hama. "I condemn, in the strongest possible terms, the indiscriminate use of heavy artillery and...
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Zee News
| 10 months ago
Hillary ''outraged'' over new Syrian massacre Washington: US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Friday expressed "outrage" over another massacre of more than 200 civilians in Syria's Hama region a day earlier, reiterating a call for Syrian...
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The Daily Star
| 10 months ago
Syria's state news agency says a suicide truck bomb in the central province of Hama has killed three civilians and one security officer...The anti-regime Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the bomb targeted the local military security...
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Daily News & Analysis
| 10 months ago
The villagers in Tremseh spent the first hours of the attack in darkness, listening to a massive artillery bombardment, then emerged after dawn to find the streets littered with corpses, The Daily Telegraph was told. "It began at 4.30am when the...
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NOW Lebanon
| 10 months ago
Canada is "appalled" by reported mass killings in a village in central Syria, Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird said Friday, calling for "tough" UN sanctions against Damascus. "Canada is appalled by reports that more than 200 Syrians have been...
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Al Jazeera English
| 10 months ago
50 Ban Ki-moon, the United Nations secretary-general, has called on the UN Security Council take "decisive action" on the conflict in Syria a day after activists said scores were killed in a village in Hama province. Ban warned on Friday that any...
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Jerusalem Post
| 10 months ago
Human rights investigator says Amnesty has seen evidence of rebel fighters killing security forces. Some Syrian rebel fighters are committing human rights abuses as they battle the forces of Syrian President Bashar Assad, although these incidents...
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The independent
| 10 months ago
Suggested Topics Crammed into the Tremseh village mosque, women and children wailed prayers over row after row of corpses yesterday before the bodies were carried outside, packed into mass graves and buried. Overwhelmed by the scale of the slaughter,...
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PRWeb
| 10 months ago
The American Syrian Coalition (ASC) today strongly condemned the massacre committed by Assad regime forces in the village of Tremseh in Hama province, claiming the lives of around 200 civilians, according to Local Coordination Committees. July 13,...
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Al Jazeera
| 10 months ago
17 Kofi Annan, the UN's chief envoy to Syria, has said that he was "shocked and appalled" by reports by activists that regime forces had killed dozens in the central province of Hama. He said on Friday the reported mass killing is a sign the peace...
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NOW Lebanon
| 10 months ago
Khaled Abou Abdallah is an engineer from Hama city and works near Treimsa village where Syrian government troops with tanks and helicopters slaughtered more than 150 people overnight, according to Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. Abou Abdallah...
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NOW Lebanon
| 10 months ago
EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton on Friday denounced the massacre in a Syrian village as "an atrocity" and "a blatant violation" of a plan brokered by UN-Arab League envoy Kofi Annan. "I am deeply shocked by reports of the ruthless killing of...
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The Guardian
| 10 months ago
N Kofin Annan 'appalled' after UN monitors verified use of heavy weaponry in attack believed to have killed more than 140 people Syria used helicopter gunships and other heavy weaponry in the shelling of Tremseh, says General Robert Mood, head of the...
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United Press International
| 10 months ago
Turkey said it would cut its electricity supplies to Syria in response to conflict over a downed fighter jet. Turkey, July 13 (UPI) -- The Turkish military said Friday a fighter jet downed in June wasn't hit by anti-aircraft fire as the Syrian...
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Sydney Morning Herald
| 10 months ago
Tremseh, in central Hama province, according to anti-government activists. The Syrian Revolution General Commission, an opposition group, said yesterday that there were more than 150 corpses in the town mosque. It said there was no full count yet as...
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DAWN
| 10 months ago
Syria army AFP 1 min ago Syrian army soldiers and rebels sit on the top of an armored personnel carrier in Homs province, central Syria. The Syrian army killed many terrorists but no civilians in Treimsa village in the central province of Hama, a...
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BBC
| 10 months ago
UN and Arab League envoy for Syria Kofi Annan has said he is "shocked and appalled" at reports of mass killings in the Syrian village of Tremseh. Activists say the army and pro-government militiamen killed 200 people in the village on Thursday...Mr...
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Washington Post
| 10 months ago
At least 200 people were massacred by government soldiers and militia fighters in the village of Tremseh in western Syria on Thursday, the highest death toll from a single attack since the country's uprising began in March 2011, according to...
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NOW Lebanon
| 10 months ago
Mood, the head of the UN Supervision Mission in Syria, told a news conference in Damascus. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported pro-government forces killed at least 150 people in Treimsa on Thursday. The regime blamed "bloodthirsty media"...
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Arab News
| 10 months ago
Syrian troops with tanks and helicopters slaughtered more than 150 people in a central village, rights activists said on Friday, prompting the opposition to call for urgent UN intervention. Reports of the massacre came after UN Security Council...
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The Age
| 10 months ago
There has been deadlock at the security council where Syrian allies Russia and China are opposed to a push by other countries for a resolution imposing sanctions on Assad and threatening the use of military force if he does not stop the violence.
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AKI
| 10 months ago
Syria's Muslim Brotherhood said United Nations and Arab League envoy Kofi Annan is partly to blame for yesterday's massacre in a village in the restive Hama region that left more than 200 dead. It was the largest massacre since violence started 16...
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CNN Blog
| 10 months ago
Syrian protesters Friday demanded the removal of international envoy Kofi Annan after hundreds of deaths a day earlier blamed on shelling by government forces, opposition activists said...He implemented a peace plan in Syria in April, but opposition...
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NOW Lebanon
| 10 months ago
Syria's main opposition alliance Friday urged the UN Security Council to pass a binding resolution against Damascus following reports by activists that regime forces massacred at least 150 villagers. "To stop this bloody madness which threatens the...
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International Business Times
| 10 months ago
At least 220 people, mostly civilians, have been killed in yet another massacre in the volatile Hama province of Syria. The death toll is expected to rise substantially as many are still believed to be unaccounted for. Large numbers are reported to...
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The Hindu
| 10 months ago
More than 200 people, mostly civilians, were massacred when Syrian government forces shelled and stormed a village on Thursday in the restive central area of Hama, opposition activists said. Abu Omar, a military official of the Free Syrian Army in...
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Taiwan News
| 10 months ago
Travel & Delicacy Beauty never Ends Ecological Environment Taiwan News, Staff Writer 2012-07-13 11:13 AM Syria n opposition activists said more than 200 people were killed in a Sunni village on Thursday by government forces using tanks and...
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Sydney Morning Herald
| 10 months ago
Rebel leader Abu Mohamad, chief of a group based further to the north, told AFP early on Friday that the attack using helicopters, tanks and multiple rocket-launchers had killed more than 200 people in the village. Abu Mohamad said he had been in...
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Australian Broadcasting Corporation
| 10 months ago
If confirmed, it would be the worst single incident of violence in 16 months of conflict in which rebels are fighting to topple president Bashar al-Assad and diplomacy to halt the bloodshed has been stymied by deadlock between world powers. The...
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The Guardian
| 10 months ago
at least 200 killed in Hama province massacre, say activists If confirmed, killings in village of Tremseh would represent single biggest massacre since uprising began Syria: government troops participate in a live fire exercise. Activists say more...
