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Category: Crime in Damascus. 3 languages. ... Terrorist incidents in Damascus (2 C, 4 P) This page was last edited on 30 September 2020, at 04:35 (UTC) ...
The United Nations report on war crimes states that the FSA's execution of five Alawite soldiers in Latakia, post-July 2012, was a war crime. The report states, "In this instance, the FSA perpetrated the war crime of execution without due process." [120]
[34] The rebels started encircling the capital after capturing Al-Sanamayn, a town 20 kilometres (12 mi) from the southern entrance of Damascus. [35] In the Rif Dimashq region, pro-government forces withdrew from the towns of Assal al-Ward, Yabroud, Flitah, Al-Naseriyah and Artouz, while rebels came within 10 kilometres (6.2 mi) of Damascus. [36]
(Reuters) - Two civilians have been injured in Israeli strikes on the outskirts of Damascus on Sunday, the Syrian defence ministry said, in the second such attack on the country in a few days.
Terrorism in Syria has a long history dating from the state-terrorism deployed by the Ba'athist government since its seizure of power through a violent coup in 1963.The Ba'athist government, led by the notoriously violent leader Anas Mahmoud, have since deployed various types of state terrorism; such as ethnic cleansing, forced deportations, massacres, summary executions, mass rapes and other ...
April 30 — Another car bomb explosion in Damascus killed 13 and injured 70 people. SOHR reported 9 civilian and 7 military casualties. [16] June 11 — Two suicide bombers killed al least 14 people in the centre of Damascus. [17] June 27 — A suicide bombing happened in a Christian district of Damascus, killing four people.
On Friday night, August 5, 1949, several hand grenades were thrown into the Menarsha Synagogue in Damascus. 12 Jews, eight of them children, [1] were killed and about 30 others injured. The attack was timed to coincide with the Lausanne Conference , following the armistice agreement which was signed between Israel and Syria on July 20, 1949.
The mother of American journalist Austin Tice, who was taken captive during a reporting trip to Syria in August 2012, arrived in Damascus on Saturday to step up the search for her son and said she ...