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AMMAN (Reuters) – Syrian government forces killed at least 20 people on Tuesday when they shelled a bakery in a neighborhood under rebel control in the contested northern city of Aleppo, opposition activists said. The dead included women and children, they said. Video footage, which could not be immediately verified, showed decapitated bodies amid scattered [...]
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Syrian army shelling kills 20 at Aleppo bakery: activists
Posted by admin on October 23rd, 2012
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Tags: Activists, Aleppo, Army, Bakery, Kills, shelling, Syrian 
No Comments »Turkey to use “greater force” if further Syria shelling
Posted by admin on October 10th, 2012
HACIPASA, Turkey (Reuters) – Turkey's military will respond with greater force if shelling from Syria continues to hit its territory, its chief of staff said on Wednesday, as clashes between the Syrian army and rebels intensified along the border. Several mortar shells landed outside the Syrian border town of Azmarin early on Wednesday and heavy [...]
Turkey fires artillery into Syria after shelling
Posted by admin on October 7th, 2012
ISTANBUL (Reuters) – Turkish forces fired across the frontier into Syria on Sunday after a shell launched from Syria landed in Turkey's border town of Akcakale, underlining Ankara's warning that it will respond with force to any violence spilling over into its territory. It was the fifth consecutive day of Turkish retaliation against incoming bombardment [...]
Shelling in Syria’s Deraa kills 17: activist group
Posted by admin on June 9th, 2012
BEIRUT (Reuters) – Seventeen people, including 10 women, were killed overnight by shelling in the southern Syrian town of Deraa, where the uprising against President Bashar al-Assad erupted 15 months ago, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said. The group, which monitors violence in Syria through a network of sources inside the country, reported fighting [...]
Hama shelling undermines Syria truce
Posted by admin on April 24th, 2012
BEIRUT (Reuters) – The Syrian army killed more than 20 people in Hama on Monday, activists said, shattering a week of relative quiet in the central city visited a day earlier by U.N. monitors laying the ground for a wider mission to oversee a shaky 11-day ceasefire. A small group of unarmed observers has been [...]
Syria lets U.N. monitors into Homs after shelling stops
Posted by admin on April 22nd, 2012
BEIRUT (Reuters) – Syrian authorities allowed a team of United Nations ceasefire monitors to enter the battered city of Homs on Saturday after resident opposition activists said shelling and gunfire stopped for the first time in weeks. “A team of observers have been sent to Homs and met the governor,” U.N. spokesman Khaled al-Masri said. [...]
Lull in Homs shelling allows protests, small exodus
Posted by admin on February 12th, 2012
AMMAN (Reuters) – Syrian security forces eased their week-long bombardment of the central city of Homs on Sunday and let a few families leave opposition districts while thousands of protesters crowded the streets overnight, activists said. Heavy shelling in Homs has killed hundreds this week as an 11-month uprising rages nationwide against minority Alawite Shi’ite [...]
Death toll hits 217 in shelling of Syria’s Homs: group
Posted by admin on February 4th, 2012
BEIRUT (Reuters) – At least 217 people were killed in shelling by Syrian forces in the city of Homs, the Syrian Observatory for Human rights said on Saturday. “The death toll is now at least 217 people killed in Homs, 138 of them killed in the Khalidiya district,” Rami Abdulrahman, head of the British-based group, [...]
