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Arabs urge Russia to stop arming Syria as Homs battered
The Arab League demanded on Thursday that Russia stop supplying arms to Syria, as a regime onslaught of Homs and its surrounds appeared to stall a Red Cross bid to rescue trapped civilians. The pan-Arab bloc’s deputy secretary general Ahmed Ben Hilli issued the appeal in an interview in which…
UN calls Syrian bombardment of Homs ‘crimes against humanity’
Syrian forces on Monday shelled rebel bastions in Homs and Damascus despite pleas for help from the opposition and a warning by the United Nations that such bombardment amounted to crimes against humanity. US President Barack Obama, meanwhile, is due to meet his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin at a G20…
UN Security Council votes to send troops to Syria to enforce ceasefire
Conal Urquhart, guardian.co.uk The UN security council has voted unanimously to send to 30 military observers to Syria to monitor the country’s fragile ceasefire. Russia and China joined the other 13 security council members and voted in favour of the draft resolution on Saturday. Vitaly Churkin, Russia’s ambassador to the…
Syria forces ‘kill 58 civilians,’ Red Cross calls for truce
DAMASCUS — Syrian forces killed 58 civilians Tuesday as they blitzed the city of Homs and a village in Idlib province, monitors said, as the Red Cross sought a truce to deliver aid and the UN demanded access for humanitarian workers. The latest killings came as Russia, a key ally…
‘God help us’: appeal from Syria’s Homs
BEIRUT — Residents of Homs on Monday described scenes of panic and carnage in the city of central Syria undergoing a fierce assault by government troops, urging outside powers to intervene to halt the bloodshed. “What is happening is indescribable,” said Wael, a resident reached by telephone. “Security forces have…
Syria says pipeline blown up by rebel saboteurs
BEIRUT (Reuters) – A Syrian pipeline carrying oil from the east of the country to a vital refinery in Homs was blown up Thursday in what the official news agency SANA said was an act of sabotage by an armed terrorist group. Opposition activists said flames and clouds of thick…
34 Syrians seized by militia found dead: report
Thirty-four Syrians abducted by pro-regime “shabiha” militiamen on Monday were found dead in the flashpoint central city of Homs, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported. The Britain-based watchdog said an activist on the ground reported seeing “the bodies of 34 civilians, in a square in the pro-regime neighbourhood of…
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