Tagged: Syrian Observatory for Human Rights
‘Syrian regime accused of chemical attack on Harasta,’ Al-Jazeera (Qatar), 11 April 2014
Almost eight months after the deadly chemical weapons attack perpetrated by the Syrian regime, which led to over 1000 deaths, activists are reporting another attack using poisonous gasses in the town of Harasta in the Rif Dimashq governorate. The August 21st, 2013 attack led the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) to begin a program for the destruction of Syria’s chemical weapons stockpiles, but regime forces have continued to strike opposition-held towns and cities hard with barrel bombs. The regime says it maintains its commitment to destroying its chemical weapons. Continue reading
‘International silence while more than 136,000 have died since the Syrian revolution began,’ SOHR (London), 1 February 2014
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights has released its latest statistics on the number of deaths in Syria since the revolution began in March 2011. Along with the shocking numbers, they renewed their call to the United Nations and the international community to work towards an end to the killing in Syria.
‘Observatory: 517 dead including 151 children in air strikes on Aleppo and the surrounding countryside in two weeks’, Akhbar al-Khaleej (Bahrain), 29th December 2013
The Syrian Observatory of Human Rights has released a statement stating that at least 517 people have been killed in air raids on Aleppo and its surrounding countryside in the last two weeks.
Bombardment of Damascus, Daraa and Idlib, SOHR (Syria), 21 November 2013
Daily report of attacks and confrontations between Syrian regime forces and opposition fighters from the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.
Assassination of fighting force commander in Damascus, SOHR (Syria), 19 November 2013
A top Syrian opposition commander has been assassinated in the Yarkmouk refugee camp in Damascus as opposition fighters continue to lose ground to the regime forces of Bashar al-Assad.
What role does Hezbollah play in Syria?, BBC Arabic (London), 22 April 2013
حزب الله ينفي مشاركته في القتال
This BBC report from April, when Hezbollah fighters were confirmed to be involved in Syria, explains the groups early activities on the ground and poses questions to readers about the role Hezbollah will play in the conflict, and how there involvement could shape the situation.
Statement: New massacre of children in Raqqah, Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (Syria), 29 September 2013
مجزرة جديدة بالرقة بحق الاطفال
محافظة الرقة – المرصد السوري لحقوق الانسان: ارتفع إلى 12 عدد الشهداء الذين قضوا إثر القصف من طائرة حربية على الثانوية التجارية في مدينة الرقة الشهداء غالبيتهم طلاب مرحلة ثانوية دون سن الـ18 و عدد الشهداء مرشح للارتفاع بسبب وجود جرحى بعضهم في حالات خطرة
ويأتي هذا الاستهداف بعد تعهد النظام السوري بعدم استهداف المدارس والجامعات
إن المرصد السوري لحقوق الانسان يدين بأشد العبارات ارتكاب هذه المجزرة بحق أطفال سورية وطلاب العلم الذين هم مستقبل سورية الواعد ,ويجدد مطالبته بإحالة ملف جرائم الحرب والجرائم ضد الإنسانية التي ترتكب بشكل يومي في سورية إلى محكمة الجنايات الدولية لينال مرتكبيها ومن أعطاهم الأوامر، عقابهم على ما ارتكبت أيديهم الآثمة بحق الشعب السوري
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New massacre of children in Raqqah
Raqqa Province – Syrian Observatory for Human Rights: The number of martyrs who have died following the military aircraft bombing of a secondary commercial school in the city of Raqqah has increased to twelve. Most of the martyrs are secondary school students, under the age of 18, and the number of martyrs is expected to rise because of the critical condition of some of those injured.
This targeted attack comes after the Syrian regime’s pledge to stop targeting schools and universities.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights condemns in the strongest terms the perpetration of this massacre of Syria’s children and students who are the promising future of Syria. We also renew our demands to refer the portfolio of war crime and crimes against humanities, perpetrated daily in Syria, to the International Criminal Court in order to apprehend the perpetrators and whoever gives them commands, and punish them for what has been perpetrated at their sinful hands against the Syrian people.
Translated by Kevin Moore.
Statement available from Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.
Regime forces control the strategic city of As-Safira, SOHR (Syria), 31 October 2013
القوات النظامية تسيطر على مدينة السفيرة الاستراتيجية
محافظة حلب
المرصد السوري لحقوق الانسان
سيطر مقاتلو الدولة الاسلامية في العراق والشام على حاجز للواء مقاتل على طريق الكاستيلو بعد اشتباكات عنيفة دارت بين الطرفين واعتقلت 7عناصر من الحاجز فيما اقتحم مقاتلو الدولة الاسلامية في العراق والشام بلدة حيان واعتقلت عناصر من لواء مقاتل اخر من منزلهم كما تدور اشتباكات عنيفة بين القوات النظامية ومقاتلي الكتائب المقاتلة على جبهة اكثار البذار في حي الميدان وبالقرب من شارع النيل ترافق مع قصف الكتائب المقاتلة تمركزات القوات النظامية بقذائف الهاون في حي الميدان وانباء عن قتلى وجرحى في صفوف القوات النظامية في حين اعطبت الكتائب المقاتلة ثلاثة اليات للقوات النظامية على اطراف حي العامرية متجهة الى بلدة رسم عسان وانباء عن قتلى وجرحى في صفوف القوات النظامية وسيطرت القوات النظامية على مدينة السفيرة الاستراتيجية بشكل شبه كامل بعد اشتباكات وقصف عنيف بكافة انواع الاسلحة لعدة ايام وانسحاب الكتائب المقاتلة من المدينة
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Regime forces control the strategic city of As-Safira
Aleppo Province
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights
The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIS) took control of the blockade of a brigade after violent clashes between the two sides and arrested seven members of the blockade. Meanwhile, ISIS fighters stormed the town of Hayyan and arrested members of another brigade in their home. There were also violent clashes between regime forces and combat brigades on the front lines in the main square and close to Nile Street. These were accompanied by shelling, by troupes against regime forces in the main square. There were reports of deaths and injuries on the side of the regime forces while brigades destroyed three regime tanks on the outskirts of Amriya, heading towards the town of Rasam Asan, as well as reports of deaths and injuries amongst regime forces. Reports show that regime forces had almost completely captured the strategic city of As-Safira after clashes and violent shelling with all types of weapons for several days and the withdrawal of armed brigades from the city.
Translated by Kevin Moore.
Report available from Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.
‘Kurdish fighters seize Syrian border post from armed opposition group,’ BBC Arabic, 10 October 2013
مقاتلون أكراد يستولون على موقع حدودي سوري من جماعة مسلحة معارضة
أعلن المرصد السوري لحقوق الانسان المعارض، أن مسلحين أكراداً استولوا على معبر اليعربية وهو موقع سوري على الحدود مع العراق في ساعة مبكرة من صباح السبت، بعد اشتباكات استمرت ثلاثة ايام مع الدولة الاسلامية في العراق والشام وهي جماعة مسلحة على صلة بتنظيم القاعدة
وكانت الجماعة الاسلامية المسلحة قد انتزعت المعبر من الجيش السوري منذ مارس/ آذار الماضي
كما قال المرصد إن 40 شخصا قتلوا في تفجير سيارة ملغومة خارج مسجد في وادى بردى في محافظة دمشق أمس الجمعة
وذكرت الوكالة العربية السورية الرسمية للانباء ان “عددا من الارهابيين” قتلوا إثر الانفجار ونقلت عن شاهد عيان قوله ان مدخلي المسجد انهارا جراء الانفجار الذي وقع قبل انتهاء صلاة الجمعة
وكانت الانباء قد تضاربت بشأن مقتل زعيم جبهة النصرة حيث بث التلفزيون السوري الجمعة نبأ مفاده أن زعيم جبهة النصرة ابو محمد الجولاني، التي اعلنت مسؤوليتها عن عدد من التفجيرات الانتحارية، قد قتل
إلا أن المعارضة نفت مقتله
ونقل المرصد السوري لحقوق الإنسان عن قيادي في المعارضة السورية المسلحة أنه يعتقد أن الجولاني “على قيد الحياة وبصحة جيدة
كما أوضح المرصد أن قيادات بارزة بجبهة النصرة نفوا لنشطاء في اللاذقية الأنباء الواردة حول مقتل الجولاني، بحسب ما ذكرته وكالة أسوشيتد برس
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Kurdish fighters seize Syrian border post from armed opposition group
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported that Kurdish gunmen seized the Al-Yabiriyya border crossing, located on the Syrian border with Iraq, in the early hours of Saturday morning. The point was seized after three days of clashes with the Islamic State of Iraq and Greater Syria, an armed group linked to Al-Qaeda.
The armed Islamist group had held the crossing from the Syrian army since last March.
The Observatory also said that 40 people were killed in a car bombing outside of a mosque in Wadi Barada in the province of Damascus yesterday.
The official Syrian Arabic news agency told outlets that “a number of terrorists” were killed after the explosion, and quoted an eyewitness as saying that the two entrances to the mosque collapsed in the blast, which occurred before Friday prayers finished.
There were conflicting reports about the death of a leader of Al-Nusra Front, when Syrian state television broadcast on Friday the news that Al-Nusra Front leader Abu Mohammed Joulani, who claimed responsibility for a number of suicide bombings, had been killed.
However, the opposition has denied his death.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported that Syrian armed opposition leadership believes that Joulani is “alive and in good health.”
The Observatory explained that prominent leaders of Al-Nusra Front denied to activists in Lattikia that they had received new about Joulani’s death, according to the Associated Press.
Translated by Kevin Moore
Article available at BBC Arabic.
‘al-Mo’alam confirmed Damascus’ refusal of any ‘partial report’ to UN inspectors’, as-Safiir (Lebanon), 30th August 2013
المعلم يؤكد رفض دمشق أي “تقرير جزئي” لمفتشي الامم المتحدة
أكد وزير الخارجية السوري وليد المعلم في اتصال مع الأمين العام للأمم المتحدة بان كي مون أن دمشق ترفض أي “تقرير جزئي” يصدر عن الأمانة العامة للأمم المتحدة قبل انجاز البعثة الدولية بشأن الاسلحة الكيميائية مهامها والوقوف على نتائج التحاليل المخبرية للعينات التي جرى جمعها من قبل البعثة والتحقيق في المواقع التي تعرض فيها الجنود للغازات السامة والتي طلبت الحكومة السورية من الأمين العام التحقيق فيها.
(“التلفزيون السوري”)
As-Safiir live feed: 30.08.2013, 14:50pm GMT at As-Safiir.
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‘al-Mo’alam confirm Damascus’ refusal of any ‘partial report’ to UN inspectors’
As-Safiir live feed: 30.08.2013, 14:50pm GMT
The Syrian Minster of Exterior, Walid al-Mo’alam confirmed in a call with the United Nations General Secretary Ban Ki Moon that Damascus refuses any “partial report” issued by the UN General Secretary before completion of the international mission on the issue of chemical weapon functions. Damascus stands by results of expert analysis of the sample which was collected by the mission to investigate the sites that exposed soldiers to poison gases, which the Syrian government requested General Security to investigate.
(Syrian Television)
Translated by Robert Forster
The Edinburgh Arabic Initiative 