February 2012
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#Syria threatens to 'cleanse' rebel area in Homs. →
BEIRUT (AP) — The Syrian regime showed a new determination Wednesday to crush its opponents, vowing to “cleanse” a rebel-held district in the besieged central city of Homs after nearly four weeks of shelling.
Government troops massed outside the embattled neighborhood of Baba Amr, raising fears among activists of an imminent ground invasion that could endanger thousands of...
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#Syria unrest: Surgeon tells of Homs makeshift... →
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Jacques Beres is a 71-year-old surgeon and co-founder of the Medecins Sans Frontieres group. He has just returned from the besieged Syrian city of Homs where, in a makeshift clinic, he managed to treat dozens of people wounded during weeks of bombardment. He told the BBC News website what he saw.
“I spent 12 days in Homs, arriving via Lebanon. We planned the trip for several weeks. It...
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Assad’s Useful Idiots #Syria #SOSHomsNow
Syria is another instance of Western sympathy for despotic regimes.
Nancy Pelosi and Bashar Al-Assad meet in Syria in 2007.
By Mona Charen
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton issued a firm statement to the Syrian elite this week, urging them to overthrow the regime of Bashar Al-Assad. “The longer you support the regime’s campaign of violence against your brothers and sisters, the...
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Russians living in #Syria insulted, blamed for...
The Russian press has been playing up the gratitude of the Syrian people for Moscow’s staunch opposition to foreign intervention against the regime of Bashar al-Assad.
Demonstrators against President Bashar al-Assad hold a placard that reads, “Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin says to Syria’s Assad, My cuddly murderer of his people.” (Reuters)
Demonstrators in...
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WatchGetting supplies in, hurt out of #Syria
CNN’s Arwa Damon reports on how Syrian opposition activists get supplies into the country and transport the wounded out.
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Kids of Telmnes village in Syria donate bread to Homs & Hama due to severe food shortage result of siege. Heartbreaking youtu.be/F-pHOrnNzIs
— BintAlRifai (@BintAlRifai) February 29, 2012
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EU leaders to discuss situation in #Syria ( More...
BRUSSELS, Feb 29 (KUNA) — Leaders of the 27-member European Union (EU) will discuss Syria and the wider region during their Thursday-Friday summit meeting in Brussels, said the President of the EU Council Herman van Rompuy Wednesday. In his invitation letter to the EU leaders for the summit, he said that on Friday they will “exchange views on latest events in Syria and more...
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With permission of our people in #Gaza, I think #Homs also tragically earned right to this song: We Will Not Go Down - bit.ly/yqFSN6
— Rime Allaf (@rallaf) February 29, 2012
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Syrian army assaults rebel district in Homs #Syria
Blood stains left by a 70-year-old woman who was killed in the room after heavy shelling by government forces in Sermeen near the northern city of Idlib February 28, 2012.
Credit: Reuters/Zohra Bensemra
By Khaled Yacoub Oweis
AMMAN | Wed Feb 29, 2012 4:53am EST
(Reuters) - Syrian troops launched a ground attack in Homs on Wednesday in an apparent attempt to overrun the...
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WatchHoms, #Syria: PLEASE SHARE! Mulham Al Jundi in Homs had just released a video recording of the intense bombings and gunfiring in nearby Al Rifai, Baba Amr area. At one point the shootings were so close ( at 9:15 ) that he had to step away from the street.
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Turkey mulls Kosovo-like plan for Syria
ANKARA - Hürriyet Daily News
The UN says over 7,500 were killed in fight between Assad forces and rebels. AP photo
Sevil Küçükkoşumsevil.küçükkosum@tdn.com.tr
Turkey is entertaining the possibility of working with the international community to establish a humanitarian corridor into Syria without a U.N. Security Council directive as it did in Kosovo in 1999. Establishing corridors needs a...
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'Immediate ceasefire' urged in #Syria. →
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UN rights chief condemns attacks on civilians and demands humanitarian access, prompting walkout by Syrian envoy.
There needs to be an immediate humanitarian ceasefire in Syria, the UN human rights chief has declared, saying the situation has deteriorated rapidly as the Syrian government steps up its onslaught against the opposition.
Navi Pillay’s remarks at an emergency session of...
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#Syria: second bid to evacuate journalists fails -... →
Volunteers from the local affiliate of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) were allowed to reach the Baba Amr district to remove casualties requiring treatment, including Paul Conroy, a British photographer working for the Sunday Times, and Edith Bouvier, a French correspondent for Le Figaro.
Both were both wounded last Wednesday during the same bombardment that killed Marie...
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#Syria witness: 'I have to help my family, but I...
The protesters were unarmed, posing no threat, offering no provocation. When the order came to open fire, many among the security forces were shocked, a few refused. One of those was dragged out of the ranks, made to kneel on the roadside, and shot.
“His name was Abdullah al-Zinat, he was a young guy. He was picked out because he had been arguing the most with the officers, saying...
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#Syria'n activists: 64 bodies found near Homs in...
Rodrigo Abd/AP - A boy stands in front of a shop destroyed by Syrian army shelling in the center of Idlib on Monday.
By Liz Sly, Published: February 28
BEIRUT — The bodies of dozens of men were found dumped on wasteland on the outskirts of the stricken city of Homs on Monday in what appeared to be one of the worst instances of mass killing since the uprising against President Bashar...
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Avaaz: #Syria activist network frees Paul Conroy,...
Today, a network of Syrian activists coordinated by the global campaign organisation Avaaz helped the international journalist Paul Conroy escape into Lebanon. He had been injured and trapped in Baba Amr, Homs for six days under continuous Syrian government shelling. The three other journalists Javier Espinosa, Edith Bouvier and William Daniels remain unaccounted for.
Avaaz responded to...
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Syrian shelling decimates Homs neighborhood #Syria
Carcasses of buildings riddled with bullet holes, flattened cars and mountains of rubble are what’s left of a Homs neighborhood after an intensifying bombardment campaign in Syria that began in early February.
Baba Amr is rapidly disappearing.
“The neighborhood is a disaster,” said Sami Ibrahim, an activist in Homs for the Syrian Network for Human Rights who was contacted by...
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