BEIRUT — Thousands of Syrian protesters called on soldiers Friday to abandon President Bashar Assad’s regime and join a dissident army numbering in the small thousands, as the top U.N. human rights official warned of a “full-blown civil war” in Syria, saying the death toll in the 7-month-old crackdown has passed 3,000. Security forces opened [...]
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — In shaky videos posted on the web, some protesters in Syria have begun flashing signs appealing for international help. “Where is NATO?” some messages ask amid crackdowns that have claimed nearly 3,000 lives. The answer: Waiting on the sidelines with other world powers and showing no willingness to open a [...]
BEIRUT — While Syrian protesters and security forces are engaged in a war of attrition on the ground, a different kind of battle is emerging online. Pro- and anti-government activists in Syria are increasingly turning to the Internet, hacking and defacing websites in an attempt to win a public relations victory. Shadowy online activist groups [...]
Harvard University’s homepage was hacked on Monday morning, and visitors to the site were greeted with the garbled message “SyRiAn ELeCTronic ArMy WeRe HeRE,” reports BBC News. The statement was accompanied by a photograph of Bashar al-Assad, Syria’s president, as well as an anti-American screed. “Do you support the war on Syria?” the message read in [...]
BEIRUT — When Bashar Assad inherited power in Syria in 2000, many saw him as a youthful new president in a region of aging dictators – a fresh face who could transform his father’s stagnant dictatorship into a modern state ready to engage with the world. Now, the bloody government backlash has extinguished the once-popular [...]
BEIRUT — Syria’s government proclaimed Friday that it was succeeding in crushing the uprising in the city of Hama, the epicenter of anti-regime protests, showing TV images of burned buildings and rubble-strewn streets. Under a suffocating siege, residents of the city warned that medical supplies were running out and food rotting after six days without [...]
BEIRUT — Security forces opened fire as tens of thousands of protesters poured into the streets across Syria on Friday calling for the downfall of President Bashar Assad’s regime, defying a deadly military siege on the city of Hama where government tanks blasted residential areas before dawn. Friday’s protests spread from the capital, Damascus, to [...]
BEIRUT — The flashpoint Syrian city of Hama endured a fifth day under military siege Thursday, with a resident saying people were being “slaughtered like sheep” in the streets and families were burying their dead in home gardens or roadsides rather than risk a trip to a cemetery. Food supplies grew short and residents shared [...]
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev urged Syrian President Bashar al-Assad on Thursday to carry out reforms and reconcile with his opponents, saying he risked a “sad fate” if he failed to do so. “He (Assad) needs to urgently carry out reforms, reconcile with the opposition, restore peace and set up a modern state,” Medvedev said in [...]
More people have reportedly been killed in Hama as troops of President Bashar al-Assad lay siege to the city for the third day. According to Channel 4, six protestors were also been killed in the Damascus suburb of Erbin. The shelling of the city, which started on Sunday, is believed to have claimed more than 160 [...]
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