Tag Archives: bloodshed
Syrian rebels pierce Assad’s siege lines in Homs: opposition
AMMAN (Reuters) – Syrian rebels broke through government lines to ease a siege of their positions in the strategic central city of Homs on Sunday despite coming under fierce aerial bombardment, opposition campaigners said. The communally mixed city of Sunni Muslims and Alawites, the minority sect that has dominated Syria since the 1960s, has emerged as a major battleground in the two-year-old uprising against President Bashar al-Assad Continue reading
Opposition "would talk to Assad in northern Syria"
AMMAN (Reuters) – Syrian National Coalition leader Moaz Alkhatib said on Sunday he was willing to hold talks with President Bashar al-Assad's representatives in rebel-held areas of northern Syria to try to end a conflict that has killed about 60,000 people. The aim of the talks would be to find a way for Assad to leave power with the “minimum of bloodshed and destruction”, Alkhatib said in a statement published on his Facebook page Continue reading
Islamic summit urges dialogue on Syria transition
CAIRO (Reuters) – Leaders of Muslim nations called on Thursday for a “serious dialogue” between Syria's government and an opposition coalition on a political transition to end nearly two years of civil war, but pinned most of the blame for the bloodshed on the state. Continue reading
Syria doomed to "hell" without political deal: envoy
MOSCOW/AZAZ, Syria (Reuters) – The international mediator touting a peace plan for Syria warned on Saturday of “hell” if the warring sides shun talks, and Moscow accused enemies of President Bashar al-Assad of blocking negotiations. U.N.-Arab League envoy Lakhdar Brahimi said in Moscow that responsible people inside and outside Syria should “help the Syrians stop their descent into more and more bloodshed, into more and more chaos and perhaps a failed state”. … Continue reading
Gaza: Israel And Hamas Ceasefire Under Way
There are celebrations in Gaza as both sides reach an agreement to stop the violence after a week of bloodshed. Continue reading
Peace envoy seeks Iranian help for Syria ceasefire
BEIRUT (Reuters) – International peace envoy Lakhdar Brahimi appealed to Iran to help arrange a ceasefire in Syria during the Islamic holiday of Eid al-Adha as rebels and government forces fought street by street and village by village on Monday. Brahimi made the request in talks with Iranian leaders on Sunday in Tehran, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's closest regional ally in his campaign to crush a 19-month-old uprising. Continue reading
AP Analysis: Syria diplomacy stalls over safe zone
Turkey's non-starter call for a humanitarian safe zone inside Syria offers the clearest sign yet that diplomacy to end the bloodshed in the most violent uprising of the Arab Spring is at a dead end. Continue reading
Syrian army batters parts of Damascus, 47 killed
AMMAN/ALEPPO, Syria (Reuters) – The Syrian army shelled southern Damascus on Wednesday and helicopters fired rockets and machineguns during an assault meant to shore up President Bashar al-Assad's grip on the capital 17 months into an uprising, opposition activists said. The army has this week used tanks and helicopter gunships in an offensive around Damascus that coincided with the departure of U.N. military observers, their mission to stop the bloodshed and nudge Syria towards a peaceful transition a failure Continue reading
U.N. says Syria killings targeted opposition
BEIRUT (Reuters) – United Nations observers found blood, burned homes and signs of artillery fire in the Syrian village of Tremseh on Saturday but were unable to confirm activists' reports that about 220 people were massacred in an attack that prompted international outrage. Continue reading
U.N. says Syria killings targeted opposition
BEIRUT (Reuters) – United Nations observers found blood, burned homes and signs of artillery fire in the Syrian village of Tremseh on Saturday but were unable to confirm activists' reports that about 220 people were massacred in an attack that prompted international outrage. Continue reading
