BBC | Jim Muir | August 5, 2011
Tens of thousands of people have protested across Syria, days after the bloody crackdown on the city of Hama where the opposition had taken control.
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SYRIA: Syria Violence: New Protests After Crackdown in Hama
Posted in Civilian Casualties, Crossfire Deaths, Crossfire Injuries, Displacement, Government, Ground Assault, Gunfire, Lebanon, Middle-East, Military, Property Damage, Protesters, Russia, Shelling, Syria, Targeted Death, Targeted Injury, United Nations, United States, tagged Bashar al-Assad, Civilian Casualties, Protesters, Russia, security fforces, Syria, Syrian unrest, targeted death, Targeted Injury, United Nations Security Council, United States on August 5, 2011 |
ISRAEL: Israeli child killed in West Bank
Posted in Civilian Casualties, Government, Ground Assault, Israel, Middle-East, Military, Palestine, Targeted Injury, Terrorists, tagged Civilian Casualties, Government, Israel, Middle-East, Military, Palestine, Targeted Injury, Terrorists on April 2, 2009 |
By BBC News
A Palestinian attacker wielding an axe has killed an Israeli boy and wounded another in a Jewish settlement in the West Bank, police say.
The incident took place in the Bat Ayin settlement south of Bethlehem. The attacker is reported to have escaped.
Doctors said the fatality was a 13-year-old, while a seven-year-old boy was being treated for serious wounds.
The military wing of Islamic Jihad and Imad Mughniyeh Group said they carried out the attack, Israel Radio reports.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu described the attack as a “senseless act of brutality against innocents”.
PAKISTAN: Pakistan bombers hit arms factory
Posted in Bomb, Civilian Casualties, Insurgents, Pakistan, South Asia, Suicide Bomb, Targeted Injury, Terrorists, tagged Civilian Casualties, Pakistan, suicide bombings, Taliban, Targeted Injury on August 21, 2008 |
by BBC News
At least 55 people have been killed in twin suicide bombings outside a munitions factory in the Pakistani town of Wah, police say.
The attack is the deadliest on a military site in Pakistan’s history.
The bombs hit the city, 30km (18 miles) north of Islamabad, as workers left. Many people were injured.
A spokesman for the Pakistani Taleban said they had carried out the attacks, which he said were a response to army violence in the country’s north-west.
Speaking to the BBC, Maulvi Umar of the Tehrik-e-Taleban Pakistan said the bombings in Wah were in retaliation for the deaths of “innocent women and children” in the tribal area of Bajaur. (more…)
