Five children under 15 among 12 killed in bombing of Christian village in Syria
World Watch Monitor The children were still playing in the streets on Friday night. Then the rebels bombed the village. On Saturday, they should have celebrated a wedding in Mhardeh, a Christian village in northwest Syria. Instead they had to carry 10 of their own to the grave; two more later died in hospital. The […]
Syrian church in Turkish-hit enclave calls for aid
World Watch Monitor A church in a Syrian province under fire from Turkish troops has issued a plea for protection from the international community. Pastor Valentin Hanan of the Church of the Good Shepherd in Afrin, north-western Syria, wrote in an email to his supporters on Sunday: “We are at this moment under heavy shelling, […]