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72 Dead In Suspected Syria Chemical Attack: Report
The death toll from a suspected chemical weapons attack on a rebel-held Syrian town has risen to 72, 20 of them children, a monitoring group said on Wednesday.
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United Nations Rights Chief Condemns Strikes On Syrian Camp
The UN human rights chief is condemning as "murderous attacks" air strikes on camps for displaced people in Syria that left at least 28 people dead, including women and children.
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UN On Syria: Major Powers Feeding 'Military Escalation'
War crimes are "rampant" in Syria, and the conflict has become "a multisided proxy war steered from abroad by an intricate network of alliances," UN investigators said in a new report today.
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UN Fears For Hundreds Of Thousands If Syria Troops Encircle Aleppo
Hundreds of thousands of civilians could be cut off from food supplies if Syrian government forces encircle rebel-held parts of Aleppo, the United Nations said on Tuesday, warning of a massive new flight of refugees.
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Mass Deaths In Syrian Jails Amount To Crime Of 'Extermination': UN
Detainees held by the Syrian government are being killed on a massive scale amounting to a state policy of "extermination" of the civilian population, a crime against humanity, United Nations investigators said today.
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Syria War Toll Tops 170,000, One-Third Civilians: NGO
The death toll in Syria's three-year war has eclipsed 170,000 people, one-third of them civilians, a monitoring group said in a new toll released on Thursday.
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Syrian TV says gunmen kidnapped and killed 25
A video emerged on Friday showing more than a dozen bloodied corpses in Syria, some of them piled on top of each other and in military uniforms, in what the government said was a "massacre" by rebels in the northern province of Aleppo. The circumstances of the killings were not immediately clear.
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Bomber targets Syria shrine as 35 killed
A suicide bomber blew up a vehicle near an important Shiite shrine in Syria's capital Damascus on Thursday, wounding 14 people, state media and witnesses said, as 35 people were reported killed across the country.
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52 killed in Syria, troops pound rebel strongholds: NGO
Helicopter gunships today fired on rebel positions in central and northwestern Syria in a bid to snuff out the gunmen as violence killed 52 people across the country, a monitoring group said.
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UN says death toll in Syria exceeds 5,000
The death toll from Syria's crackdown on a nine-month-old uprising has exceeded 5,000 people, the top U.N. rights official said Monday, as Syrians closed their businesses and kept children home from school as part of a general strike to pressure President Bashar Assad to end the bloodshed.
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Syria death toll over 4,000: UN rights chief
The U.N.'s top human rights official says her office estimates the death toll in Syria's nine-month uprising is now "much more" than 4,000.
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Syria protests: 16 killed in firing by security forces
Syrian security forces opened fire on protesters Friday, killing at least 16 people as thousands joined demonstrations across the country calling for an end to President Bashar Assad's regime, witnesses and activists said.International condemnation is growing as the uprising enters its seventh week with no end in sight. More than 580 civilians and ...
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Syria: At least 11 dead in army crackdown
An eyewitness says at least 11 people have been killed in the southern Syrian city of Daraa after the army stormed in before dawn and fired indiscriminately on civilians.Syrian troops entered Daraa backed by tank fire and snipers. It was a sharp escalation of the deadly crackdown by President Bashar Assad's regime against a pro-reform uprising.The ...
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72 Dead In Suspected Syria Chemical Attack: Report
The death toll from a suspected chemical weapons attack on a rebel-held Syrian town has risen to 72, 20 of them children, a monitoring group said on Wednesday.
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United Nations Rights Chief Condemns Strikes On Syrian Camp
The UN human rights chief is condemning as "murderous attacks" air strikes on camps for displaced people in Syria that left at least 28 people dead, including women and children.
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UN On Syria: Major Powers Feeding 'Military Escalation'
War crimes are "rampant" in Syria, and the conflict has become "a multisided proxy war steered from abroad by an intricate network of alliances," UN investigators said in a new report today.
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UN Fears For Hundreds Of Thousands If Syria Troops Encircle Aleppo
Hundreds of thousands of civilians could be cut off from food supplies if Syrian government forces encircle rebel-held parts of Aleppo, the United Nations said on Tuesday, warning of a massive new flight of refugees.
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Mass Deaths In Syrian Jails Amount To Crime Of 'Extermination': UN
Detainees held by the Syrian government are being killed on a massive scale amounting to a state policy of "extermination" of the civilian population, a crime against humanity, United Nations investigators said today.
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Syria War Toll Tops 170,000, One-Third Civilians: NGO
The death toll in Syria's three-year war has eclipsed 170,000 people, one-third of them civilians, a monitoring group said in a new toll released on Thursday.
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Syrian TV says gunmen kidnapped and killed 25
A video emerged on Friday showing more than a dozen bloodied corpses in Syria, some of them piled on top of each other and in military uniforms, in what the government said was a "massacre" by rebels in the northern province of Aleppo. The circumstances of the killings were not immediately clear.
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Bomber targets Syria shrine as 35 killed
A suicide bomber blew up a vehicle near an important Shiite shrine in Syria's capital Damascus on Thursday, wounding 14 people, state media and witnesses said, as 35 people were reported killed across the country.
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52 killed in Syria, troops pound rebel strongholds: NGO
Helicopter gunships today fired on rebel positions in central and northwestern Syria in a bid to snuff out the gunmen as violence killed 52 people across the country, a monitoring group said.
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UN says death toll in Syria exceeds 5,000
The death toll from Syria's crackdown on a nine-month-old uprising has exceeded 5,000 people, the top U.N. rights official said Monday, as Syrians closed their businesses and kept children home from school as part of a general strike to pressure President Bashar Assad to end the bloodshed.
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Syria death toll over 4,000: UN rights chief
The U.N.'s top human rights official says her office estimates the death toll in Syria's nine-month uprising is now "much more" than 4,000.
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Syria protests: 16 killed in firing by security forces
Syrian security forces opened fire on protesters Friday, killing at least 16 people as thousands joined demonstrations across the country calling for an end to President Bashar Assad's regime, witnesses and activists said.International condemnation is growing as the uprising enters its seventh week with no end in sight. More than 580 civilians and ...
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Syria: At least 11 dead in army crackdown
An eyewitness says at least 11 people have been killed in the southern Syrian city of Daraa after the army stormed in before dawn and fired indiscriminately on civilians.Syrian troops entered Daraa backed by tank fire and snipers. It was a sharp escalation of the deadly crackdown by President Bashar Assad's regime against a pro-reform uprising.The ...
