07/02/2014

At least 246 people, including 73 children, have been killed in five days of Syrian army barrel bombing of rebel-held held areas of second city Aleppo. Hundreds more have been wounded in the raids using the controversial unguided…

Hundreds of Syrian detainees have reportedly been freed after Syrian rebels stormed a jail in the northern city of Aleppo. Rami Abdel Rahman, a spokesman for the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, said 80% of the prison had been seized…

  At least 246 people, including 73 children, have been killed in five days of Syrian army barrel bombing of rebel-held held areas of second city Aleppo, an NGO said today. Hundreds more have been wounded in the raids using…

BEIRUT: At least 246 people, including 73 children, have been killed in five days of Syrian army barrel bombing of rebel-held held areas of second city Aleppo, an NGO said Thursday. Hundreds more have been wounded in the raids using…

BEIRUT: Syrian rebels launched a new push in the northern province of Aleppo on Thursday to capture key symbols of the government and stormed a major section of a prison there, freeing hundreds of prisoners in the process, activists said.…

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At least 257 people have been killed in "barrel bomb" attacks on eastern Aleppo since Saturday, AFP reported Thursday (February 6th). The dead include at least 76 children, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said, while hundreds…

Syrian rebels have breached part of Aleppo’s central prison, releasing several hundred inmates in a bloody skirmish with regime troops, activists reported Thursday. The prison, which the rebels have had under siege for almost a year, has…

A Syrian suicide bomber detonated himself in an Aleppo prison Thursday, freeing hundreds of inmates and intensifying the struggle to maintain control over the city, according to the Daily Herald. The attack began when a Chechen suicide…

Syrian rebels seized control on Thursday of most of Aleppo’s central prison, freeing hundreds of prisoners, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said. “Ahrar al-Sham and Al-Nusra Front (brigades) have taken control of 80 percent of…