Language/Dil   KanallarBookmarkin Video| Bookmarks | News Panel | Davet et|   Register | Login | |

Search results for forces

BEIRUT (Reuters) - Syrian forces pressed home a sustained assault on opponents of President Bashar al-Assad, ignoring an international peace plan under which troops were to silence their guns and withdraw from urban areas. Opposition groups said Syrian troops killed 31 people on Tuesday, and Turkish media reported heavy gunfire coming from what appeared to be an army post topped with a Syrian fla
Syria’s political opposition accused President Bashar al-Assad of escalating military assaults on four major urban centers on Tuesday.
Security forces loyal to Democratic Republic of Congo President Joseph Kabila committed serious human rights violations, including killings and torture, during last year’s tense elections, the United Nations said in a report released Tuesday.
BEIRUT (Reuters) - Syrian forces pressed their military offensive in the northern province of Idlib, driving 1,000 refugees across the Turkish border as the bloody revolt against President Bashar al-Assad entered a second year with no sign of political solution. Forty-five civilians were killed in the frontier province, including 23 whose bodies were found with their hands tied behind their backs
AMMAN (Reuters) - Heavily armed forces loyal to President Bashar al-Assad battled rebels in the southern city of Deraa on Wednesday, while U.N. envoy Kofi Annan considered Syria's response to plans aimed at ending the violence. Around 20 tanks and armored vehicles surrounded the al-Balad district of Deraa, on the border with Jordan, and fired anti-aircraft guns into buildings, activist Rami Abdel
The appraisal by the defense secretary and the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff reflected increased concern about the uprising in Syria, in which more than 7,500 people have reportedly been killed.
Somali government troops backed by African Union forces overtook several key positions of the militant al Shabaab Islamist group in the capital Mogadishu on Friday, the latest in a long-running effort to drive out the al Qaeda-linked insurgents.
AMMAN (Reuters) - Elite forces loyal to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad pounded a rebel bastion in Homs on Thursday in what appeared to be a final push on the opposition stronghold after more than three weeks of siege and bombardment, activists said. A senior official in the rebel Free Syrian Army told Reuters rebels in the district of Baba Amro were fending off more than 7,000 government troops
As Mitt Romney’s presidential effort steps up fund-raising to meet rising costs, some Republicans are worried about the impact of an extended party contest on the November election.
AMMAN (Reuters) - Syrian forces opened fire with live ammunition on demonstrators in Damascus overnight, wounding at least four, activists said early Tuesday as unrest continued to spread in the capital. Demonstrations and clashes with security forces have hit Damascus in the past week, undermining President Bashar al-Assad's argument that an 11-month uprising has been the work of saboteurs and
AMMAN/BEIRUT (Reuters) - Syrian security forces have fired on a huge protest against President Bashar al-Assad in Damascus, opposition activists said, shortly after a Chinese envoy appealed for a halt to 11 months of violence.
AMMAN (Reuters) - Syrian government forces launched an offensive on the city of Hama early on Wednesday, firing on residential neighborhoods from armored vehicles and mobile anti-aircraft guns, opposition activists said.
Navi Pillay publicly castigated Syria’s leaders, accusing them of intensifying their deadly crackdown after the Security Council failed to reach a solution.
AMMAN/BEIRUT (Reuters) - Syrian forces bombarded districts of the city of Homs in their drive to crush a revolt against President Bashar al-Assad, ahead of a meeting of Arab foreign ministers due to discuss setting up a joint observer mission with the United Nations.
BEIRUT (Reuters) - A Syrian military assault on Homs killed dozens of people on the eve of a visit to Damascus by Russia's Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov aimed at pressing President Bashar al-Assad to end an 11-month uprising by implementing swift reform.
The reports could not be independently confirmed, but the attacks Friday night in Homs appeared to be the bloodiest episode in the nearly 11-month-old uprising, opposition activists said.
Clashes between security forces and protesters in northern Senegal on Monday killed two people during a rally against President Abdoulaye Wade's controversial bid for reelection.
US special forces rescued two foreign hostages from Somali pirates in a Tuesday raid. American Jessica Buchanan and Danish national Poul Thisted were working for a Danish demining group when they were kidnapped in October.

Profile Eklenenler


click  for digitiy