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U.S. closes embassy as fighting rages in Syria

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U.S. closes embassy as fighting rages in Syria

<!--endclickprintinclude--><!--startclickprintexclude--><!--no partner-->By Holly Yan, CNN
updated 10:08 AM EST, Mon February 6, 2012


(CNN) -- Intense blasts echoed through the ravaged Syrian city of Homs on Monday after a weekend bloodbath ended in hundreds of deaths there, local activists said.

"It is horrible. Especially today, it is horrible," said Abu Omar, a local activist who said the Syrian army was attacking without warning. "Usually they are using mortars. They are now using rockets in the sky. We can see them in the sky."

At least 46 people were killed across Syria on Monday, including four children, the opposition Local Coordination Committees said. The deaths included 36 in Homs, four in Damascus suburbs, one in Damascus, two in Aleppo, and three in Idlib.

Syrian state-run TV said "armed terrorist groups" were attacking citizens and members of law enforcement in several cities, including Homs, Idlib, and the Damascus suburbs.

Syria stepped up its brutal crackdown after the U.N. Security Council failed Saturday to pass a resolution condemning the regime, activists said.

"The U.N. gave them the green light to inflict more violence," another opposition activist, identified as "Danny," said from Homs. "If it wasn't for the U.N., they wouldn't have did this. It gave them the OK to kill more. If the U.N. had done something about this, this regime would be a little bit scared."

The United States closed its embassy in Syria and pulled out remaining staff Monday after the Syrian government refused to address its security concerns, senior State Department officials told CNN.

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http://www.cnn.com/2012/02/06/world/meast/syria-unrest/
 
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Turkey is the only country that has opened its borders to all Syrians. Where is the rest of the world? What kind example is this for our children as they see the carnage? All countries should volunteer to help Turkey and/or commit to housing refugees.


President Gül says Syria on path of no return

6 February 2012 / TODAY’S ZAMAN, ANKARA
Turkish leaders slammed the Syrian regime for a violent crackdown that claimed the lives of hundreds in the restive city of Homs in the country's northeast over the weekend with President Abdullah Gül saying on Wednesday that Syria is on a path of no return.

Gül reiterated his concerns regarding the situation in Syria, which he said continues to deteriorate. The Turkish president urged Syrian President Bashar al-Assad to reverse his wrong policies, and not to insist on conducting atrocities against its own people. During a joint news conference with his South Korean counterpart Lee Myung-bak in Ankara, Gül said the best thing Assad could do for his country and his people is to stop insisting on his policies and embrace change.

Gül also expressed his regret over a Russian-Chinese veto of a UN Security Council Resolution calling upon Assad to step down. “Everyone should remember that the era of the Cold War is over. Human rights violations and using the military against civilians have no place in this world,” Gül asserted, criticizing Russia and China for backing their old political and ideological partner Syria, ties with which are based on the decade-long alliance between Soviet Russia, China and the Assad family-led Baath Party in Syria.


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http://www.todayszaman.com/newsDetail_getNewsById.action?newsId=270655
 
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As many as 126 reported killed as Syrian attacks escalate

By the CNN Wire Staff
updated 11:22 AM EST, Thu February 9, 2012

(CNN) -- A Syrian opposition group reported more than 100 deaths at the hands of government forces Thursday as President Bashar al-Assad escalated a brutal assault against an opposition that wants an end to his regime.

The fifth day of attacks on opposition activists and civilians follows what U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon described as a "disastrous" failure over the weekend by the U.N. Security Council to agree on a resolution condemning the violence in Syria and calling for al-Assad, in power for 12 years, to step down.
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Medical charities say doctors inside Syria have reported hospitals, clinics, medical staff and patients being targeted.

A doctor in the Homs neighborhood of Baba Amr, Ali Hazoury, said a group from the Red Crescent tried to visit the other day to give medical aid, but their vehicle was attacked and they were forced to turn around.

Civilians who enter hospitals with minor injuries were left to die, said Col. Malek Al Kurdi of the rebel Free Syrian Army, who said he witnessed such a scene in the coastal city of Latakia.

"Al-Assad is now using the tactic of attacking three or more cities at the same time to attempt to deter the revolt," Al Kurdi said. "Last night the killers attacked Zabadani, Homs, and Talkala at the same time."

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http://www.cnn.com/2012/02/09/world/meast/syria-unrest/
 
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Saudi Arabia criticizes the "veto" Russia and China on Syria
Said the shaken confidence of the world the United Nations nor the world can be governed by several countries

Friday 18 March 1433 e - February 10, 2012 AD


Criticized the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz, the use of Russia and China to "veto" against a resolution on Syria in the UN Security Council,

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http://www.alarabiya.net/articles/2012/02/10/193796.html?K2K2KK2
 
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Syria TV: 25 killed, 175 wounded in Aleppo blasts

Published February 10, 2012
| Associated Press

BEIRUT ? Two explosions targeted security compounds in the Syrian city of Aleppo on Friday, state media reported, saying 25 people were killed and 175 wounded in a major city that has so far largely stood by President Bashar Assad in the nearly 11-month-old uprising against his rule.

The blasts were the first significant violence in the northern city, Syria's largest.
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In another development Friday, Syrian troops who for the past six days have been bombarding the city of Homs made their first ground move of the campaign to seize one of the city's restive neighborhoods.

Soldiers backed by tanks pushed into the neighborhood of Inshaat. The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said troops were going from house to house detaining people.

"They are punishing the residents," said the Observatory's chief Rami Abdul-Rahman who added that there is lack of food in the area.
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Hundreds of people are believed to have been killed in the past week in Homs from relentless shelling and gunfire on several rebellious neighborhoods in the city, an operation activists said aimed to soften up the areas before moving in.
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Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/world/2012/0...it-northern-syrian-city-aleppo/#ixzz1lzlW7L9H
 
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Under the city of Homs on Tuesday to play the heaviest bombing of the Syrian forces in this city, central Syria, the stronghold of the movement of protest against the Syrian regime, as confirmed by militants.

The director of the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, Rami Abdul-Rahman Al-exposure neighborhood Baba Amr in Homs for the bombing was the deadliest since the five days by the Syrian forces.
and transfer manager Observatory for activists in the city that the bombing is a rate of two shells per minute


more + video....


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Dozens killed in Syria as Red Cross seeks 'humanitarian pause'
Published February 22, 2012
| Associated Press

AP
BEIRUT ? Food and water are running dangerously low in the besieged Syrian city of Homs, with frantic cries for help from residents amid the latest government shelling that has pounded rebel strongholds and killed at least 30 people, activists said.

Shells reportedly rained down Tuesday on rebellious districts at a rate of 10 per minute at one point and the Red Cross called for a daily two-hour cease-fire so that it can deliver emergency aid to the wounded and sick.

"If they don't die in the shelling, they will die of hunger," activist and resident Omar Shaker told The Associated Press after hours of intense shelling concentrated on the rebel-held neighborhood of Baba Amr that the opposition has extolled as a symbol of their 11-month uprising against President Bashar Assad's regime.

Another 33 people were killed in northern Syria's mountainous Jabal al-Zawiya region when government forces raided a town in pursuit of regime opponents, raising Tuesday's overall death toll to 63, activists said. The Local Coordination Committees, an opposition group, said more than 100 were killed Tuesday, but the report could not immediately be confirmed by others.
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One Homs resident, communicating with the AP by Internet chat, said many people are unable or too scared to go to the hospital for treatment. Some are bleeding to death at home.​

"My cousin is a doctor and he said they've given up on treating serious wounds. The numbers are too many to cope with especially with so little supplies," said the resident, who has provided reliable information in the past. The resident spoke on condition of anonymity because of the fear of reprisal.​

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Syrian tanks attack Homs, world outrage grows

By Khaled Yacoub Oweis and Alistair Lyon
AMMAN/BEIRUT | Thu Feb 23, 2012 10:55am EST

AMMAN/BEIRUT (Reuters) - Syrian tanks pushed into a rebel stronghold in the battered city of Homs on Thursday and U.N. investigators accused President Bashar al-Assad's government of crimes against humanity.

Rockets, shells and mortar rounds rained on the Baba Amro district, where armed insurgents are holed up with terrified civilians, for the 20th day in a row, activists said. The Sunni Muslim quarters of Inshaat and Khalidiya also came under fire.

Homs-based activist Abu Imad said tanks had entered the Jobar area in the south of Baba Amro.

"Explosions are shaking the whole of Homs. God have mercy," Abdallah al-Hadi said from the city, where more than 80 people, including two Western journalists and Syrian opposition citizen journalist Rami al-Sayed, were reported killed on Wednesday.

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http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/02/23/us-syria-idUSL5E8DB0BH20120223
 
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Uploaded by Syrian4allWorld on Feb 24, 2012

A Doctors from the field hospital (who hide his face so that the regime won't target him) explains how this innocent child was killed during the unstoppable shelling on Homs city by the Syrian regime army. A call to humanity to intervene and save the Syrian children



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jc_yUVGd-iY
 
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In Syria, aid agencies unable to evacuate wounded from Homs

By Patrick J. McDonnell, Los Angeles Times February 26, 2012

Reporting from Beirut?

Aid agencies were unable to evacuate any people Saturday from a battle-
scarred neighborhood in the central Syrian city of Homs, one day after the United States and other nations demanded that President Bashar Assad allow humanitarian aid into strife-ridden Syria.
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Meanwhile, an opposition group reported at least 75 people were killed across Syria on Saturday, including 31 in Homs, a focal point of the almost yearlong rebellion against Assad....

A joint effort by the International Committee of the Red Cross and the Syrian Arab Red Crescent resulted in a temporary cease-fire Friday and the evacuation of 27 civilians, including seven described as seriously injured, from the Baba Amr neighborhood of Homs. That raised hope that the injured journalists stranded there might be among the next to leave.

But aid groups were unable to work out an arrangement after extensive discussions with both government and opposition representatives, said Saleh Dabbakeh, a spokesman in Damascus for the Red Cross.

"We kept negotiating all day long, but unfortunately the negotiations did not lead to anything," Dabbakeh said by telephone from the Syrian capital.

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http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-syria-violence-20120226,0,7757528.story
 
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February 28, 2012 6:58 PM

Over 60 men reportedly shot to death in Syria

By Clarissa Ward
(CBS News)


There are reports Tuesday that more than 60 Syrian men were found shot to death in what appears to be a mass execution....

... we've spoken to several activists on the ground in the city of Homs today. They told us that a large group of civilians was trying to flee the city and the relentless bombardment that is ongoing there. On Sunday night, apparently the group lost its way at a certain point and came upon a gang of pro-Assad gunmen known in Syria as the Shabiha.

The Shabiha then separated the women and the youngest children from the men. The men were then reportedly killed. Their bodies were found in a government hospital the next day in a neighboring village. And still no word, Scott, on the fate of the women and young children who were separated from them.

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-18563_162-57387179/over-60-men-reportedly-shot-to-death-in-syria/
 
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Syrian troops move to retake rebel-held district in Homs

Updated 1h 21m ago

BEIRUT (AP) ? Syrian troops advanced Wednesday on a key rebel-held area in the central city of Homs, where three Western journalists are among 100,000 residents trapped by a government assault that has raged for weeks. The forces appeared to be starting a ground operation to retake the area that has become a symbol of the uprising to oust President Bashar Assad.

Government forces have been heavily shelling Homs, and particularly the rebel-controlled Baba Amr neighborhood, for more than three weeks with tanks, artillery and rockets. The announcement by a Syrian official of the new troop advance indicated a ground assault was beginning to recapture Baba Amr, home to about 100,000 people.

A Syrian official vowed Baba Amr would be "cleaned" within hours. The official spoke on condition of anonymity in line with regulations.

Homs, Syria's third-largest city with a population of about 1 million, has become the major center of both anti-government resistance and reprisal, fueled in part by increasingly bold army defectors who want to bring down Assad's autocratic regime by force. The U.N. warned Tuesday that Syria's conflict looks increasingly like a civil war.

Four Western journalists ? two of them wounded ? had been trapped in Baba Amr since last week, when two other foreign reporters were killed there by a government attack. On Tuesday, Syrian rebels smuggled out Paul Conroy, one of the four journalists, and whisked him safely across the border into Lebanon. Activists said 13 Syrians involved in the rescue operation were killed during it.

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http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/story/2012-02-29/syria-troops-rebels-homs/53297516/1
 
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Syrian forces pound Homs, block aid convoy
Reuters March 3, 2012 3:30 PM ​

BEIRUT - (Reuters) - Syrian forces renewed their bombardment of parts of the shattered city of Homs on Saturday and for a second day blocked Red Cross aid meant for civilians stranded without food and fuel in the former rebel stronghold, activists and aid workers said. ​

The government assault came a day after U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said he had received ?grisly reports? that President Bashar al-Assad?s troops were executing and torturing people in the city after rebels abandoned their positions there. ​

?In an act of pure revenge, Assad?s army has been firing mortar rounds and ... machine guns since this morning at Jobar,? said the Syrian Network for Human Rights, naming a district next to Baba Amro, where rebels held out against almost a month of siege and shelling before fleeing this week. ​

?We have no immediate reports of casualties because of the difficulty of communications,? the campaign group said in a statement. ​
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Concern was mounting for civilians in freezing conditions in Baba Amro, where International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) trucks were being held up by Assad?s forces.


 
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Red Cross set to enter war-battered Syria district

Updated 3m ago

DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) ? A Red Cross team plans to distribute aid to residents in part of a war-battered neighborhood in the central Syrian city of Homs on Monday, group officials said, following days of being kept out by Syrian forces.

Fears that thousands of civilians in the Baba Amr neighborhood are suffering from severe cold and hunger have been mounting since government forces seized the district from rebels last week. Before its capture the district faced weeks of siege and daily shelling that activists say killed hundreds of people.

The Syrian government said the Red Cross could go in after regime forces captured the area on Thursday, but troops on the ground denied Red Cross access, citing security concerns.

The head of the humanitarian group's local branch, the Syrian Red Crescent in Homs province, said Monday that aid teams would enter part of the area. Shueib Shaaban said authorities said the group could enter all of Baba Amr on Tuesday and that the group was sending three trucks with aid for the neighborhood.
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The violence has fueled increasing international condemnation of the Assad regime. The U.S. has called for him to step down, and Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said he could be considered a war criminal. The European Union said it would document alleged war crimes in Syria to set the stage for a "day of reckoning" for the country's leadership, in the way that former Yugoslav leaders were tried for war crimes in the 1990s by a U.N. tribunal.
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http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/story/2012-03-05/syria-red-cross-homs-baba-amr/53364436/1
 
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