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Mum says "they beat him I screamed stop he's a child, then shot him. I saw his blood flow across road" "he's a child"(previous tweet) #Syria
1 week ago His dad says "my son said: 'even if Muhamad came down I won't give anything on credit' - they beat & shot him. Child"(previous tweet) #Syria
1 week ago Parts from video include the mum saying "way they killed him you'd think they caught someone from Hezbollah group" (previous tweet) #Syria
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IS THERE ANY MORE OBVIOUS CASE OF SECTARIAN CLEANSING ANYWHERE IN THE WORLD THAN WHAT HAPPENED IN QUSAIR?
1 week ago Orient TV report about Maaret Nu'man #Idlib http://t.co/kCJdVEXPgG cc @SyrianSmurf #Syria
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Daily Archives: July 22, 2012
Unrest at 2 refugee camps in Turkey
ANKARA, Turkey — Turkey’s state-run news agency says Turkish security forces have used tear gas, batons and shots fired into the air to quell unrest at two camps housing Syrian refugees. More than 43,000 Syrians have taken refuge in eight … Continue reading
Malaysia to evacuate students, close Syria embassy
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia — Malaysia’s government says it is shutting its embassy in Syria and evacuating more than 130 students and diplomats because of the escalating civil war. Foreign Minister Anifah Aman says the Malaysian ambassador to Damascus and four … Continue reading
Family photo album gives insight into Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s private life
By: Nick Meo Some believe that Bashar and Asma al-Assad are hiding in a bunker deep beneath Damascus, others that the Syrian president and his wife have relocated to a heavily protected palace in the loyalist city of Latakia. And … Continue reading
Syrian Army Overruns Damascus District
Members of a Syrian army division under the command of President Bashar al-Assad’s brother drove rebels out of the northern Damascus district of Barzeh on Sunday and summarily executed several young men, a witness and opposition activists said. “At least … Continue reading
Fleeing Syrian Kurds seek refuge with Iraqi brethren
By: Patrick Markey Syrian troops usually came before dawn, rounding up young Kurdish men to force them into an army they did not see as their own and into a fight for a government that treated them as outsiders. When … Continue reading
Amid violence, Syrians race to borders
By: Joe Sterling The Syrian cab driver tolerated beatings, arrests and daily indignities during the country’s 16 months of turmoil. But after a rocket struck his house in the Daraa province city of Herak last week, the man and his … Continue reading
Syrian death toll tops 19,000, say activists
An activist group claims that more than 2,750 people have been killed in Syria so far this month, bringing the death toll since the conflict began to more than 19,000. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said if the current … Continue reading
Bashar al-Assad’s Syria is now in a death spiral
By: Jamie Denselow The combination of increasing defections, battles in the capital city and the assassination of senior regime figures have seemingly put Assad’s rule into a death spiral, says Jamie Denselow. Damascus had been largely kept apart from the … Continue reading
