Syria war: ‘More than 150 civilians killed’ in two days
Hundreds of civilians have been killed in both Syrian government and rebel attacks across the war-torn country in recent days, according to local activist groups. At least 180 civilians were killed across Syria since Friday, including 22 children and 23 women, the Local Coordination Committees, a grassroots network of activists, said on Sunday. More than […]
Syria’s war: Government and Russia blamed for deaths
At least 90 people have been killed in overnight air strikes by the Syrian government and Russian forces across Syria, according to monitors and opposition activists. Most people were killed around the Aleppo province, where more than 300,000 civilians are trapped in rebel held territories. The air raids hit the only hospital for women and […]
Syria war: Civilians die as US-Russia plan falters
At least 15 civilians have been killed and dozens wounded in air strikes by the US-led coalition in Syria, amid setbacks to attempts by the US to partner with Russia against the Islamic State in Syria and the Levant (ISIL) group. Thursday’s air strikes hit the ISIL-controlled town of Ghandoura, according to the Syrian Observatory […]
Syria’s war: 50 killed in ISIL attack in Qamishli
A car bomb has exploded in a predominantly Kurdish town in northern Syria, killing at least 50 people and wounding dozens. Syrian state TV said the car blew up on the western edge of the town of Qamishli, near the Turkish border on Wednesday. The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL, also known […]
Syria’s civil war: Air raids ‘kill civilians’ in Aleppo
More than 20 civilians are reported to have been killed and dozens more wounded in air strikes launched by the Syrian government in al-Atareb, a city in Aleppo province of the country’s northwest. With violence continuing to escalate in the area, a government news agency reported that the Syrian army carried out operations against opposition […]
Failed asylum seeker kills himself and injures others in a blast in southern Germany
A Syrian who had been denied asylum in Germany a year ago died on Sunday when a bomb he was carrying exploded outside a music festival in Ansbach. Bavaria’s Interior Minister Joachim Hermann said the 27-year-old man detonated a backpack device after being refused entry to the festival in the southern city. “We don’t know […]
25 children reported killed in Syria airstrikes: UNICEF
25 children were reportedly killed in airstrikes that hit heavily crowded areas in a town in eastern Syria, the United Nations children’s agency (UNICEF) has said.Quoting reports from its local partners in Syria, UNICEF said health workers were reported to have pulled bodies of children from under rubble in the town of al-Quran in Deir […]
Chief Syrian opposition negotiator resigns
The Syrian opposition’s chief negotiator in stalled UN-brokered peace talks, Mohammed Alloush, announced his resignation on Sunday night. He cited the failure of the Geneva negotiations and the continued shelling of rebel-held areas by President Bashar Al-Assad’s regime as reasons for stepping down, according to AFP. “The three rounds of talks were unsuccessful because of […]
Syria: Aleppo hit again as death toll from earlier hospital attack ‘rises to 50’
There was more chaos and panic on the streets of Aleppo on Friday as fresh airstrikes hit the northern Syrian city after only a brief respite. Several more deaths were reported on both sides. Another medical facility was reportedly hit, said a civil defence chief working in rebel-held areas. Bebars Mishal told Reuters there were […]
Syria civil war: Helping traumatised children in Aleppo
Aleppo, Syria – As the Syrian government continues its military offensive against rebel-held areas in Aleppo and the civilian death toll mounts, thousands of the city’s children have been left traumatised by the harrowing conflict surrounding them. But one after-school initiative in Aleppo is aiming to help these children cope. “We want to help children […]