Homs Governor Denies Mosque Targeted
SANA (State news agency)
July 1, 2013
Governor says extremist groups are known for attacking religious sites
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Governor says extremist groups are known for attacking religious sites
While the blood flows in Syria, so does the power from its biggest hydroelectric dam
Human Rights Watch interviewed 10 Syrian women who were detained, either due to their own engagement in activities related to government opposition, or that of their family members
Not all Alawites support President Assad and some take part in the revolution secretly
Homs Governor says reconstruction efforts already underway
Human Rights Watch accuses the Syrian government of interrogating students and carrying out violent assaults on their protests and military attacks on schools
A pro-government woman reporter was shot dead while covering the battles in al-Qusayr
Syrian army units killed and injured scores of terrorists in Homs and its countryside Tuesday, also destroying large amounts of weapons and ammunition.
he Syrian Coalition calls on the Lebanese government to exert control over its borders and put an immediate stop to Hezballah’s military operations on Syrian territory.
The Assad regime has launched a massive military campaign in the cities of Homs, Jebl Turkman off of the Syrian Coast, and the city of Dariyah in Damascus, in what seems to be an attempt to regain control of those areas
Islamist radicals may be gaining strength, but the spirit that sparked this uprising survives in the unlikeliest of places.
Moaz al-Khatib, the head of the Syrian National Coalition, told NOW on Thursday that “the situation [in Syria] is stalling and I want to avoid bloodshed.”
The regime continues to seek opportunities to delegitimize the revolution and create a rift among Syrians. The regime will try to distract from its murderous onslaught by attempting to demonize the Syrian Revolution and creating divisions amongst the diverse religious and ethnic groups. However, Syrians have insisted on national unity, thwarting the regimes efforts and rejecting any rift or divisions.
Forces loyal to the president, Bashar Al Assad, swept through a small farming village in central Syria this week, torching houses and shooting and stabbing residents in an attack that killed up to 106 people, including women and children, activists said yesterday.
136 martyrs, including 6 women and 16 children. 42 martyrs were reported in Damascus and its suburbs; 44 in Hama, including 23 martyrs from the village of Maan and 16 from Hasraya.
One of the main questions surrounding the Syrian uprising at the beginning of 2012 was if and when an economic collapse would occur. As the year draws to a close, the question has instead become whether one can still talk of “a” Syrian economy as such.
By the end of Sunday the LCC managed to document 234 martyrs in Syria (including 17 women and 11 children), 100 martyrs were reported in Damascus and its Suburbs (including 9 martyrs who were field-executed in Sbaina, 22 martyrs due to shelling of Yarmouk Camp and 5 martyrs due to Warplane shelling on Kafarbatna), 42 martyrs in Idlib, 31 martyrs in Daraa (including 23 martyrs due to massacre in Sad Road), 35 martyrs in Aleppo, 14 martyrs in Homs, 4 martyrs in Deir Ezzor, 4 martyrs in Hama, 3 martyrs in Lattakia and 1 martyr in Qunaitra.
Thirteen people were reportedly killed and 29 others were injured when an explosive device planted by an armed terrorist group under a car went off on Sunday in the Christian neighborhood of Bab Touma in Damascus.
A source told SANA that the operation caused the death of scores of terrorists and the injury of others, and inflicted heavy material losses on them.
