Posted in Bomb, Civilian Casualties, Crossfire Deaths, Crossfire Injuries, Displacement, Government, Ground Assault, Gunfire, Middle-East, Military, Property Damage, Protesters, Shelling, Syria, Targeted Death, Targeted Injury, Turkey, tagged Bashar al-Assad, Civilian Casualties, civilian deaths, Protesters, Ramadan, security forces, Syrian unrest, Turkey on August 10, 2011|
REUTERS | Khaled Yacoub Oweis | August 10, 2011
Syrian tanks stormed two northwestern towns near the border with Turkey on Wednesday, expanding a military offensive to crush protests, local residents said a day after Ankara pressed Syrian President Bashar al-Assad to end killings of civilians.
Posted in Bomb, Civilian Casualties, Crossfire Deaths, Crossfire Injuries, Displacement, Government, Grenade, Ground Assault, Gunfire, Middle-East, Military, Property Damage, Protesters, Shelling, Syria, Targeted Death, Targeted Injury, tagged Bashar al-Assad, Civilian Casualties, civilian deaths, Middle-East, security forces, Syrian urest on August 9, 2011|
REUTERS | KhaledYacoub Oweis | August 9, 2o11
Syrian forces killed at least five civilians during raids on villages around the besieged city of Hama on Tuesday, broadening a 10 day offensive on the city to nearby countryside, local activists said.
Posted in Bomb, Civilian Casualties, Crossfire Deaths, Crossfire Injuries, Displacement, Government, Grenade, Ground Assault, Gunfire, Middle-East, Military, Property Damage, Protesters, Shelling, Syria, Targeted Death, Targeted Injury, tagged Civilian Casualties, human rights, India, Iran, Middle-East, Protesters, Russia, sanctions, South Africa, Syrian unrest, targeted killings, Tukey, United States on August 9, 2011|
BBC | August 9, 2011
Syrian security forces have continued operations to crush protesters, even as the Turkish foreign minister pressed President Basharal-Assad to stop them.
Posted in Bomb, Civilian Casualties, Crossfire Deaths, Crossfire Injuries, Displacement, Government, Ground Assault, Gunfire, Middle-East, Military, Property Damage, Protesters, Shelling, Syria, Targeted Death, Targeted Injury, tagged Bashar al-Assad, Civilian Casualties, civilian deaths, Middle-East, Protesters, security forces, Syrian unrest on August 7, 2011|
REUTERS | Khaled Yacoub Oweis | August 7, 2011
At least 57 Syrian civilians were killed in armoured military assaults by President Bashar al-Assad’s forces on Sunday to crush a five-month uprising against his rule, a grassroots activists’ organisation said.
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|
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.
Posted in Africa, AMISOM, Civilian Casualties, Displacement, Government, Gunfire, Horn of Africa, Looting, Military, Somalia, Targeted Death, Targeted Injury, United Nations, tagged African Union, Al-Shaabab, Civilian Casualties, famine, humanitarian aid, IDPs, International Committee of the Red Cross, refugees, Somalia, the United Nations, World Food Programme on August 5, 2011|
AP | Abdi Guled and Katherine Houreld| August 5, 2011
Somali government troops opened fire Friday on hungry civilians, killing at least seven people, as both groups made a grab for food at a U.N. distribution site in the capital of this famine-stricken country, witnesses said.
Posted in Civilian Casualties, Crossfire Deaths, Crossfire Injuries, Displacement, Government, Ground Assault, Gunfire, Middle-East, Military, Protesters, Russia, Shelling, Syria, Targeted Death, Targeted Injury, United Nations, United States, tagged Bashar al-Assad, Civilian Casualties, European Union, Middle-East, Protesters, Russia, security forces, Syria, Syrian unrest, United Nations, United Nations Security Council, United States on August 5, 2011|
REUTERS | August 5, 2011
Syrian tanks tightened their occupation of Hama and massed outside a defiant city in the east as President Bashar al-Assad ignored mounting world condemnation of attacks on protesters the United States says has killed 2,000 people opposing his rule.
