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.
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SYRIA: Turkey Presses Assad to End Crackdown
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|
GEORGIA: Russia, Georgia trade barbs on anniversary
Posted in Diplomacy, Europe, Georgia, Government, Military, Russia, tagged 2008 Georgia War, Georgia, ICC, Mikheil Saakashvili, Russia, Sergei Lavrov, south ossetia on August 8, 2011|
UPI | August 8, 2011
MOSCOW — Russia, on the anniversary of its war with Georgia, said the country’s president is “ill-bred” though it didn’t make the same claim against the Georgian people.
Russian forces responded when the Georgian military invaded the separatist republic of South Ossetia in 2008. The conflict spilled over to engulf forces from Abkhazia, another separatist republic. (more…)
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|
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.
SYRIA: Syrian Tanks Overrun Hama, Kill Scores
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.
SYRIA: Syria Death Toll Rises, Italy Recalls Envoy
Posted in China, Civilian Casualties, Crossfire Deaths, Crossfire Injuries, Government, Ground Assault, Gunfire, India, Middle-East, Military, Property Damage, Protesters, Russia, Syria, Targeted Death, Targeted Injury, United Kingdom, United Nations, United States, tagged Bashar al-Assad, China, Civilian Casualties, European Union, human rights, India, Italy, Middle-East, Protesters, Ramadan, Russia, security forces, Syrian unrest, the United Nations, UN Security Council, United Kingdom, United States on August 2, 2011|
REUTERS | Khaled Oweis | August 2, 2011
The death toll in Syria’s violent crackdown on opposition to President Bashar al-Assad in the city of Hama and elsewhere climbed on Tuesday, spurring Western efforts to pile diplomatic pressure on Damascus.
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