NGO: 57 Killed in Syria Violence, Including 16 Soldiers
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Regime forces killed 41 civilians in Syria on Saturday, while 16 soldiers died in explosions and clashes with rebels, a monitoring group said.
Among the civilians, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said 19 were killed in the flashpoint city of Homs, as a rebel stronghold there is shelled for the 22nd straight day.
Regime artillery targeted the rebel-held district of Baba Amr, and opened fire on the inner city quarters of Khaldiyeh and Hamidiyeh, as well as Bab Dreib and Bab Tadmur, the Britain-based Observatory said.
The Local Coordination Committees opposition group said security forces fired mortars at Khaldiyeh, and posted footage on the Internet showing damage at the landmark mosque of Khaled bin al-Waleed, in the centre of Homs.
Six others, including a 14-year-old youth were shot dead at an army checkpoint in the village of Talbeesa, in the province of Homs, the Observatory said.
A boy was also shot dead in the Homs provincial town of Al-Hula, while a man was killed by gunfire in the city of al-Rastan, in the same province, it said.
Security forces shot dead six other people, including a woman and a girl, as they clashed with army defectors in the Aleppo provincial town of Ezaz, the Observatory said.
Police also opened fire to disperse a demonstration of some 4,000 people who took to the street in the Aleppo city neighborhood of Sayef al-Dawla for the funeral of a civilian killed on Friday, the Observatory said.
An activist who identified herself as Asma said a large number of people took part in the funeral, including mothers carrying their children.
The funeral turned into a protest to demand the ouster of President Bashar Assad and his regime, she told Agence France Presse on Skype.
No casualties were reported.
In the central province of Hama, six civilians, including two girls, died when troops stormed the villages of Maarazaf and al-Majdel, the Observatory said.
Elsewhere in the same province, troops manning a checkpoint shot dead a man and his mother in the town of Mharadeh, it said.
Meanwhile, 16 soldiers and members of the security forces were killed in clashes with rebels and by explosions in the provinces of Aleppo, Homs, and Idlib, the Observatory said.
Red Cross and Red Crescent ambulances had entered the besieged district of Homs on Friday and evacuated seven wounded Syrians, as well as 20 women and children.
But the ambulances did not evacuate two wounded Western journalists and the bodies of two others, said Saleh Dabbakeh, a spokesman for the International Committee of the Red Cross.
A medical official in Lebanon told AFP that seven wounded Syrians from Baba Amr crossed the border illegally.
The Free Syrian Army usually transports wounded people to Lebanon using traditional routes and avoiding border guards.
The latest group crossed into eastern Lebanon and has been taken to a hospital in Tripoli, in the country's north.
More than 7,600 people have been killed in violence across Syria since anti-regime protests erupted in March 2011, according to monitors.
25 February 2012, 14:21
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NGO = propaganda and spy agency subcontracted to help execute the filthy policies of the US abroad
25 February 2012, 19:23
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I did not realize Hezballah was an NGO you know Hassin admits it's infested with CIA spies.
25 February 2012, 21:14
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what is the filthy policy of the US in Syria? if the US/israel were against assad he would have been bombed back in April. Another question, didnt the "filthy US policy" get rid of saddam and gave you iraq? and now maliki who came on US tanks is a mumana3a, khalas quit the bs, it is sectarian to the bone and to people like you sunis are your real enemies and not the jews.
25 February 2012, 22:24
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As if bombing Syria is a walk in the park! As if the US and its always filthy allies did not try everything to legitimize the bombing of Syria and failed. The US filthy policies empowered Saddam, armed him with chemical weapons and pushed him to wage war against Iran. It's the US filthy policies that empowered and stood by Assad against Lebanon for 30 years, Mubarak, Bin Ali, and Al Qaida before they called them terrorists. The US drops them like a shoe if their filthy policies require it, and protects and supports them if their filthy policies require it, NOT for the love of the people or for human rights or other bs. You look up to the US as if it's a moral power when it's as immoral as the dictators and despots they support. Obviously, you are so informed and such a realist!!! You look up to the mothers of filth, and filth becomes normal to you, if not blinding. So before spreading your ill-placed advice left and right, do as the Lebanese proverb says: doctor, medicate yourself.
26 February 2012, 22:04
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osman, how did you conclude that i look up to the filthy US policy lol? calm down and read what i said again. The US is not interested in bombing Syria because the assad regime has been great/strategic for israel for over 40 years, regime change in syria is a gamble for israel and this is precisely why the west is hesitant and not interested. There are no morals in politics and countries are not charity organisations. It is people who look up to the filth that assad is doing in syria that killing/filth becomes normal to them. It is naieve to think that the US is not bombing Syria because of lack of legitimacy/park-walk. Throwing the dead cat on russia's door saves the west the embarrassment. Having said all that, the real factor in the equation that you have missed and that has actually kept the smowball rolling is the Syrian people who refuse to yield and will earn their freedom at the end. T.
25 February 2012, 15:07
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Allah yi sem7on... because the people won't forgive, nor forget.
25 February 2012, 20:38
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So should syrians not forget nor forgive the over 1000 syrians murdered mostly by march14 supporters in lebanon who were led by the march 14 anti-syrian fascist speaches and racism? Were was your fake support then? Bashar has to go sure, but people like you should shut their pie hole with their fake sympathy and fake support for the great syrian people whom you never cared about as its all about setting scores with bashar for you.
25 February 2012, 22:16
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I have said the same thing in the past. This is why M14 is the lowest of the low.
25 February 2012, 15:14
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What's wrong with the picture? Are you offended by pictures of sexy ladies? I'm going to print a large poster out of that picture and put it up on my wall. ;)
25 February 2012, 15:20
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As you already but omit to mention it, Iran is the first country that launched the integral veil aka the chador. The 'new face of Syria' as you put it is already on display in Beirut's suburbs. I don't hear you criticize the Shia dress code... What a hypocrite. My message is about tolerance and if the Syrians want to dress like ninjas, so be it.
25 February 2012, 18:32
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thumbs up. plus she looks like the ones who live in Dahyeh! further, maybe she is hiding her face from the regime? lastly what does any of this have to do with the mass killing. another retarded bigdig follower of wilayet al faqih scaring antics
25 February 2012, 16:21
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bigdope, I believe he was one of the thugs that attacked the UN investigators in the Dahieh clinic and stole their cell phones and laptops. I also spotted him at last Ashura défilé in Dbayeh. I thought you liked him, guess I was wrong.
25 February 2012, 17:05
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You guys are good at using scare tactics. It's getting real old. Watch out for the boogie man.
25 February 2012, 18:25
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Regretfully, this woman is in a larger prison already and if she is liberated from the vicious Assad regime she will remain not truly free!
Only open minded people could gain true freedom. Those whose lives dwell in theologically dictated subjugations will never be free. This is why Assad is able to hold longer.
25 February 2012, 18:34
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sounds like a typical demented General follower. so continue killing people because their lives "dwell in theologically dictated subjugations"?
25 February 2012, 21:21
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holding longer because israel is skeptical of the alternative and thus the west is not intervening. The regime will fail on the economic, demographic and security fronts as a mathematical certainty. This will only mean it will take a much longer time and many more thousands to die. The US will only intervene when they are sure that the alternative will not alter the status quo with israel or if the Syrian people suprise everyone and alter the balance of power (and they will versus long time).
25 February 2012, 21:22
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the zionist tendency is to keep bashar in power otherwise he would have been bombed months ago. Khalas man nkashaftu.
25 February 2012, 21:25
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you prefer pictures of parrots who want to die for bashar bla bla bla lol.. these are heroes who stand in the face of bullets, these are free people who believe in god, unlike you who worship bashar.
25 February 2012, 21:16
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yes, better than the face of bashar and his nazi cronies. Every country in the world went through civil war to get built (US, france, russia etc.) and Syria needs a civil war as too much blood has been spilled and people are not just gona forgive and go home to be slaves to bashar/maher again, dream on.
25 February 2012, 22:13
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The only news I hear here is civilians killed by the Syrian regime and troops killed by rebels. I never here of rebels getting killed. Does the Syrian observatory (who is owned by and always praises the Saudi tyrant King) consider rebels killed as peace loving "civilians"? Naharnet does not mention the torture and murder of unarmed pro government civilians by the Syrian opposition. It is no better than listening to pro-Syrian regime propaganda.
26 February 2012, 19:14
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The syrian army is not the only cowards out there, teh rest of teh world is just as cowardly to stand by and look at people being killed by this murderous regime of this devil Assad. That's what happened when the US has to wait for the world to decide, a bunch of hypocrites. The us should just do it on its own. everytime bomb from the syrian army hits any of teh cities, a cruise missile shold destroy an army or a ministry guilding somewhere in syria. destroy all army barracks and installations. you never ave to put one boot on the ground. that's how tha US should do these conflicts from now on.
26 February 2012, 22:11
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wala ma 7ada low life except people like you who are nazi/zionists and have no compassion for human life. burning tires huh? yali sta7u mato
