U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said Friday that a new surge in attacks by Syrian government forces on protest cities violates the U.N. Security Council’s united demand for a peaceful end to the conflict. The U.N. secretary general indicated that he believes Syrian President Bashar al-Assad is using an April 10 deadline to pull troops and [...]
Hodan Yusuf Last Sunday, many civilians in Afghanistan were shot dead in their sleep at point blank range by a US serviceman who had gone on a ‘killing spree’. There were reports from some eyewitnesses that there was more than one serviceman involved in the massacre. Some of the dead were even set on fire. As predicted, theexcuses came [...]
DAMASCUS, Syria – Syria defied international calls to halt attacks on rebel enclaves as at least 89 people were killed nationwide Saturday on the eve of a constitutional referendum that the opposition sees as a ploy by President Bashar Assad’s regime. Assad presented the revised charter — which allows for at least a theoretical opening [...]
A gas plant has been attacked in Pakistan’s Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, where government troops are fighting militants, Press TV reports. The attackers fired rocket propelled grenades and mortar shells at the plant in the town of Karak, which is situated about 80 kilometers (50 miles) west of Islamabad, on Saturday evening. A firefight broke out [...]
An Arab League official has launched a scathing attack on the regional body’s mission to Syria, claiming it has been powerless to prevent “multiple crimes against humanity” from being committed by troops loyal to the regime of President Bashar al-Assad. Anwar Malek, an Algerian member of the team, said the observer mission was becoming a [...]
A pan-Arab body called Sunday for the immediate withdrawal of the Arab League monitors in Syria because President Bashar Assad’s regime has kept up killings of government opponents even in the presence of the observers. The 88-member Arab Parliament said that Arabs are angered by the Syrian regime’s ongoing killings while the nearly 100 monitors [...]
Egyptian military police have stormed a makeshift hospital near Cairo’s Liberation Square, burning medical supplies and detaining doctors for helping protesters. The regime’s army forces surrounded the makeshift hospital on Saturday and threatened doctors to leave the site, as Egyptian military rulers intensify a crackdown on protesters demanding an end to the military rule in [...]
More than 5,000 people are now believed to have been killed in the uprising in Syria, the UN’s top human rights official has said. Navi Pillay told a closed session of the Security Council that 14,000 people are believed to have been arrested and 12,400 fled to neighbouring countries. Syria’s ambassador to the UN rejected [...]
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I am sure they take pleasure in their sadistic acts in those lands....
