Search results for ‘Baba Amr’
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Red Cross aid blocked from entering Baba Amro in Homs
The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) says it has not been allowed to enter the stricken district of Baba Amro in Homs, where it had hoped to deliver food and medical supplies.
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Syrian rebel forces withdraw from Baba Amr
Syrian rebel forces “strategically withdraw” from their stronghold of Homs, reportedly leaving the area and its 4,000 civilians in control of government forces.
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Homs shelled as UN still denied entry
Syrian government forces are targeting the neighbourhood where some Baba Amr residents have fled, while the Red Cross is frustrated in its efforts to deliver aid to Baba Amr itself.
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Fierce bombardment reported in Homs
Residents of the Syria city of Homs have reported hearing massive shelling of the besieged Baba Amro district, as the Assad regime refuses a visit by a top United Nations official.
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US court find Syrian government guilty over journalist Marie Colvin’s killing
The judge said the the extra-judicial killing of the American reporter Marie Colvin was part of “Syria’s long-standing policy of violence” against journalists.
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When I met the Syrian rebel who ‘ate soldier’s heart’ – Mani
The Syrian rebel apparently pictured “eating a soldier’s heart” was captured in a Channel 4 News report last year. Filmmaker Mani recalls Abu Sakkar joking that he would “cut his throat”.
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Syria’s Descent: a normal week of bloodshed
Missile and mortar attacks in Aleppo and Syria, fierce clashes and claims of chemical weapon use – a typical week in Syria paints a grim picture of a country at war.
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Syrian activist Ali Othman ‘may have been tortured’
There are fears the journalist, who ran the Homs media centre and helped photographer Paul Conroy escape the city, has been subject to torture and mistreatment after being seized by the authorities.
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The politics of non-intervention in Syria
The visit of the UN envoy Kofi Annan to Damascus this week underscored international concern about the horror being visited on civilians, but no-one, it seems, has an easy way of resolving the deeper issues.
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Secret emails reveal Iran advised Syria on counter-revolt
A series of leaked emails reveals how President Bashar al-Assad took advice from Iran on countering a revolt against his regime while his wife spends tens of thousands on luxury shopping sprees.
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Syrian minister defects citing ‘crimes of this regime’
As deputy oil minister Abdo Hussameldin defects from President Assad’s government, Britain’s ambassador to Syria tells Channel 4 News the minister’s defection won’t be the last.
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United Nations: hospital torture taking place across Syria
The United Nations’ High Commissioner for Human Rights, Navi Pillay, tells Channel 4 News that “horrible acts of torture” are taking place in hospitals in the cities of Homs, Deraa and Hama.
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Exclusive: Syrian doctors ‘torturing’ patients
A Syrian employee at the Military Hospital in Homs has provided video evidence that medics are torturing patients, writes Channel 4 News Foreign Affairs Correspondent Jonathan Miller.
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Realpolitik laid bare as Homs falls
As Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin calls for reconciliation in Syria, Lindsey Hilsum wonders if he is really moved by the suffering of the citizens of Homs?
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‘It’s a massacre and the world sits by and watches’
After his escape from the besieged city of Homs, photographer Paul Conroy tells Channel 4 News: “It’s systematic slaughter, not a war.”
