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Deadly suicide bomb attack on Syria bus convoy, death toll rises to 112

Deadly suicide bomb attack on Syria bus convoy, death toll rises to 112

The death toll from a bomb blast on a crowded Syrian bus convoy outside Aleppo reached at least 112 people, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitoring group said on Sunday. Syrian rescue workers the Civil Defence said that they had carted away at least 100 bodies from the site of Saturday’s blast, which hit […]

April 16, 2017 | By | Reply More
Suicide car bomb on Syrian bus convoy kills 43 evacuees fleeing to Aleppo

Suicide car bomb on Syrian bus convoy kills 43 evacuees fleeing to Aleppo

Huge car bomb kills 43 people were killed in a suicide attack on buses carrying Syrians evacuated from two besieged government-held towns, a monitor said in an updated toll. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights claimed most of the dead were evacuees, but they also included several rebels who had been guarding the buses at […]

April 15, 2017 | By | Reply More
Air strike kills 16 civilians near Damascus- monitor

Air strike kills 16 civilians near Damascus- monitor

At least 16 civilians were killed and dozens wounded on Saturday in an air strike on a rebel-held area outside Damascus, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitor said. It said it was not immediately clear who was responsible for the strike on the town Hammuriyeh in the opposition bastion of Eastern Ghouta, which has […]

March 26, 2017 | By | Reply More
Air strike on prison in Syria’s Idlib kills 16- monitor

Air strike on prison in Syria’s Idlib kills 16- monitor

At least 16 people were killed overnight in air strikes on a prison in the rebel-held city of Idlib in northwest Syria, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitor said Saturday. It said the dead included prisoners and prison guards, but did not have an immediate breakdown of the toll. The strikes were believed to […]

March 25, 2017 | By | Reply More
Hundreds of Mosul residents killed in US led coalition airstrikes in one week

Hundreds of Mosul residents killed in US led coalition airstrikes in one week

At least 370 civilians killed by US-led air strikes in seven days of fighting, says monitor Airwars, US and its coalition partners fighting the Islamic State have killed hundreds of civilians in the first week of March monitor report claims. The US air power Supporting Iraqi forces storming western Mosul, according to reports by monitoring […]

March 11, 2017 | By | Reply More
Syrian forces kill 8 in raids on rebel-held Idlib province

Syrian forces kill 8 in raids on rebel-held Idlib province

Air strikes on a rebel-held town in northwestern Syria killed eight people on Saturday, a monitor said, the latest to hit the area where Al-Qaeda’s former affiliate has a strong presence. Most of those killed in the Idlib province town of Maarat Masrin were civilians, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said. Their deaths came […]

January 14, 2017 | By | Reply More
Aleppo sees shelling, air strikes again as Assad urges peace talks

Aleppo sees shelling, air strikes again as Assad urges peace talks

Syrian rebels shelled Aleppo and air strikes resumed around the city on Friday as Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and his allies said the insurgents’ withdrawal from the city could pave the way toward a political solution for the country. A day after the last rebels left their remaining pocket of territory in the city, the […]

December 24, 2016 | By | Reply More
France, Russia reach compromise as Aleppo rescue uncertain

France, Russia reach compromise as Aleppo rescue uncertain

France struck a compromise Sunday with Russia on a U.N. resolution that it said would prevent “mass atrocities” in besieged areas of Aleppo, where thousands of trapped civilians and rebel fighters await evacuation in freezing temperatures. On the ground, prospects for swift evacuations from Aleppo and other besieged areas were thrown into doubt again Sunday […]

December 19, 2016 | By | Reply More
No more room for the dead as Syria’s Aleppo is crushed

No more room for the dead as Syria’s Aleppo is crushed

The old Aleppo cemetery filled up a year ago. The new one filled up last week. Now the dead are left in the besieged enclave’s streets, buried in backyards and overwhelming the morgues. Medical officials secured yet another plot for the dead. But they say they have no way to dig graves with government troops […]

December 5, 2016 | By | Reply More
At least 21 killed in Idlib province airstrikes

At least 21 killed in Idlib province airstrikes

Syrian activists say at least 3 children and 18 others have been killed in a series of airstrikes on the opposition-controlled town of Kafranbel in Syria. The activist-run Kafranbel Media Center published a list of 22 dead from the presumed Russian or Syrian government airstrikes. The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitoring group was […]

December 4, 2016 | By | Reply More