Al menos 90 muertos por bombardeo contra panadería en Siria. Un ataque aéreo del gobierno sirio mató a decenas de personas que se formaban para comprar pan en la provincia central de Hama; medios locales hablan de entre 200 y 300 muertos Jerusalén, 23 Dic (Notimex).- Decenas de personas, entre ellas mujeres y niños, que hacían fila frente a una panadería en una localidad de la central provincia siria de Hama murieron hoy durante un ataque aéreo del régimen del presidente Bashar al-Assad.
Syrian forces pound Homs and Aleppo - Middle East. Syrian warplanes and artillery have pounded the central city of Homs, subjecting the former rebel stronghold to its worst bombardment in months.
The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said Friday's attack was the worst the city had seen in five months. The Observatory, which relies on a network of activists on the ground, said tanks and mortars as well as aircraft had bombarded the city's Khaldiya neighbourhood. "Around dawn, the regime went crazy and started shelling hysterically," a Homs-based activist known as Abu Rami told the Associated Press news agency via Skype on Friday. "An average of five rockets a minute are falling. " Abu Rami was speaking from the central opposition-held old quarter known as Old Homs. He said the government forces were mainly firing rockets and heavy mortars at the rebel-held neighbourhoods of Old Homs, Khaldiya, Qusour and Jouret el-Shayah. There were no immediate reports of casualties. ...den syrischen Frühling unterstützen! Presidente Sirio culpa a EU de apoyar a terroristas.
Path for Peace: Russia & West agree on transition government for Syria. Syria on the brink - Empire. Dangerous contradictions in Syria. Despite global condemnation of government violence and a UN-brokered peace plan, the crisis in Syria is deepening.
The conflict, now labelled a "civil war" by the United Nations Undersecretary for Peacekeeping, is sure to become one, even as relevant powers meet to discuss ways of resurrecting the Annan Plan later in June. The only touchstone for diplomatic efforts surrounding the crisis in Syria, Kofi Annan's peace plan, is itself in crisis, as up to 2,000 people have been killed in May alone.
The violence in Syria has already spread to Lebanon, which straddles the same communal and confessional fault lines as its larger neighbour, and where the Assad regime's repression has polarised the population, largely along pre-existing political lines. A bloody civil war, involving supplies of guns and money from regional and global sponsors, would be disastrous for Syria and for its neighbours.
Syrian inconsistencies. Nouvelle offensive diplomatique en Syrie. El Mundo - Situación en Siria es cada vez más desoladora: ONU. With Arabs taking control of their fate, is the UN still relevant? Cairo, Egypt - In a December interview with Barbara Walters, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad commented that the United Nations was not a credible institution, that it is just a "game" in which countries partake.
While "credible" may not be the most apt description, certainly not for the entirety of the UN, Assad's questioning of the sanctity of the institution is not as off-key as his political record. The recent rejection of a UN Security Council proposal to support the Arab League peace initiative for Syria due to Russian and Chinese veto is not as much of a nadir for the Syrian revolution as it is for the UN as an institution.
The UN Security Council stands as a relic of a past age; rather than voicing global concerns, it is a platform for permanent members to confirm the hierarchy of the world order. The United States has often used its power to veto resolutions associated with Israel. Arab revolutions Resource-wealthy Libya was readily targeted by NATO troops. Imágenes de Fotos del conflicto tomadas por Rodrigo Abd - Yahoo! Noticias en Español. Fotógrafo argentino de AP relata cómo escapó de Siria bajo fuego - Yahoo! Noticias en Español. ANTAKYA, Turquía (AP) — Parecía buen momento para escapar de Siria.
Las explosiones iluminaban la noche mientras corríamos con la esperanza de salir del país luego de pasar casi tres semanas cubriendo un conflicto que el gobierno parece determinado a impedir que el mundo vea. El fuego de los tanques estremecía las calles de la ciudad detrás de nosotros, las balas de los francotiradores pasaban silbando cerca de nuestras cabezas y los rebeldes que nos escoltaban casi habían agotado sus municiones. Mientras las fuerzas del régimen cercaban la ciudad norteña de Idlib, hasta entonces bajo control de los insurgentes, el videoperiodista de Associated Press Ahmed Bahaddou y yo nos preparamos para partir el domingo hacia la vecina Turquía en una jornada que nos llevaría por un pasaje obscuro como boca de lobo y kilómetros de enmarañados bosques de olivo en un clima gélido.
Syria Crisis: Refugees Fleeing Homs Share Tales Of Slaughter. They had been walking for days when a BBC film crew met them on a road outside of Homs.
The group of refugees was fleeing the city's besieged neighborhood of Baba Amr, desperately trying to avoid the government's security forces. "We're homeless because we asked for freedom," a woman told the crew. The group brought horror stories of gruesome murders and indiscriminate killings. '89 Percent' of Syrians Voted to Keep Assad in Power until 2028 - Global. Syria's Long, Bloody Uprising - In Focus. Nearly a year after it began, the violence in Syria carries on.
Despite tightening international sanctions, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's troops continue to attack opposition strongholds across the country. As the shelling of the city of Homs continues, fresh offensives have just started in the province of Idlib, where government troops reportedly fired artillery, mortars, and anti-aircraft guns at several towns. Le régime syrien dans le collimateur arabe à la veille de la conférence de Tunis. La Tunisie a adressé une invitation officielle au Conseil national syrien pour prendre part à la conférence internationale sur la Syrie, qui se tiendra, vendredi 24 février, à Tunis, selon le correspondant d'Al-Jazeera au Caire.
Iran - Siria. Interactive: Timeline of Syria unrest - Interactive. It has been more than one year now that Syria has been in turmoil.
What initially started out as protests for reforms has escalated into an armed uprising against President Bashar al-Assad’s one-party rule, dragging the country into chaos. Syrian officials killed as protests continue - Middle East. Gunmen have opened fire on a car carrying a senior Syrian state prosecutor and a judge in the northwest province of Idlib, killing both of them and their driver, state media says.
State news agency SANA said on Sunday that Idlib provincial state prosecutor Nidal Ghazal and Judge Mohammed Ziadeh were killed instantly in the attack. Idlib has for months been the scene of intense clashes between troops loyal to President Bashar al-Assad and armed opposition groups. The assassinations came a day after SANA said armed men shot dead Jamal al-Bish, member of the city council of the nearby northern city of Aleppo, Syria's commercial capital. SANA said he was killed outside the city, a centre of support for Assad that has been relatively quiet since the uprising began.
Security forces maintained a heavy presence to prevent Sunday's burial of Samer al-Khatib from turning into another anti-Assad demonstration, according to opposition activists. Who really calls the shots in Damascus? - Inside Syria. In the past week, since the Russian and Chinese veto in the UN Security Council, we have seen a significant rise in violence on the streets of Syria. A number of the countries that supported the vetoed peace plan are urgently looking at new solutions. Meanwhile, the propaganda war is also being stepped up by all sides.
The US State Department has released satellite images of what it says are heavy weapons being used to shell residential neighbourhoods in the city of Homs. And there conflicting claims inside Syria over who was responsible for bomb blasts in the city of Aleppo. So, who can stop the bloodshed in Syria, and what can regional powers do while deep divisions among the international community remain?
Siria acusa a Liga Árabe de financiar a terroristas - El Universal - El Mundo. El Cairo | Domingo 12 de febrero de 2012EFE | El Universal14:05 El representante sirio ante la Liga Árabe, Yusef Ahmed, rechazó las resoluciones adoptadas hoy por este organismo contra su país, recriminó la presunta hostilidad de algunos de sus miembros y les acusó de financiar a los grupos terroristas que según Damasco azuzan la violencia en Siria.
En un comunicado, Yusuf aseguró que las resoluciones adoptadas en El Cairo por los ministros de Asuntos Exteriores de la Liga "reflejan de modo escandaloso el secuestro de las decisiones árabes y la falsedad de la voluntad árabe conjunta". La Liga Árabe -integrada por 22 países, incluidos la propia Siria y la Autoridad Nacional Palestina (ANP)- acordó este domingo requerir al Consejo de Seguridad de la ONU la formación de una fuerza de paz conjunta para Siria, a la vez que aumentó la presión diplomática sobre el régimen de Damasco. eca. Imperialism, despotism, and democracy in Syria. New York, NY - In the context of the US invasion of the Gulf in 1991, British academic Fred Halliday announced his new right-wing affiliations in the British newspaper the New Statesman by declaring: "If I have to choose between imperialism and fascism, I choose imperialism.
" It never occurred to Halliday that he could have opposed both and supported home-grown democratic struggles instead. This was indeed a watershed moment for Arab, American, and European anti-imperialist leftists who would become turncoats, moving from a principled opposition to imperialism to a principled and financially more rewarding support of it. The stark opposition that Halliday drew between American imperialism and Saddam's despotic rule preceded the events of 9/11 and the re-introduction of the term "fascism" in a slightly altered form to fit US imperialism's new enemies, namely the neologism "Islamofascism", which another British turncoat, Christopher Hitchens, had done so much to disseminate.
Crying wolf, foreign agendas and Israel's role in destabilising Syria. Suva, Fiji - It's been a dismally predictable, transparent and nasty lie by regimes under assault in the Arab Spring that the mass uprisings are being whipped up by foreign agitators - usually meaning Israel and the United States, maybe France, Europe generally, now sometimes Turkey or, heaven forfend, Al Jazeera journalists. Only the most gullible swallow these claims: their principal effect is to make the claimants look like buffoons. Still, a government's crying wolf doesn't mean a wolf isn't around somewhere. It's equally gullible to assume that foreign agendas have no role in Syria, for example. The flood of western money, supplies, intelligence agents, satellite and drone monitoring and promises of every kind has been lavish everywhere in the Arab Spring. The interests driving this foreign involvement haven't changed in decades: the geopolitics of oil and, as a related but also self-standing issue, Israel.
Israel's track record of fostering regional unrest is an old story. Syria rejects Arab League transition plan - Middle East. Syria has condemned a new Arab League initiative that calls on President Bashar al-Assad to cede power by holding early elections and forming a "unity government". The Arab League has called on Assad to delegate power to his vice-president and for elections to be held under a "national unity government", the latest step in a diplomatic effort to end 10 months of political violence in Syria.
"Syria rejects the decisions taken which are outside an Arab working plan, and considers them an attack on its national sovereignty and a flagrant interference in internal affairs," Syrian state television quoted a government official as saying on Monday. The source also said that the resolution was part of a conspiracy against the Syrian people. The new plan envisioned the "peaceful departure of the Syrian regime" and resembled the arrangement in Yemen, where Gulf states convinced Ali Abdullah Saleh, the outgoing president, to delegate power and leave the country, he said. Security Council support.