At least 100 killed in drone attack on Syrian military academy – monitor
Beirut, LebanonReuters At least 100 people were killed on Thursday in an attack on a military academy in Syria, a war monitor and an official said, with weaponised drones bombing the site minutes after Syria’s defence minister left a graduation ceremony there. It was one of the bloodiest attacks ever against a Syrian army installation, […]
After quake, Syria’s northern coast ravaged by wildfires
Mashquita, Syria Reuters At 72, Syrian farmer Izzadin Zuhaira has survived war, displacement and a devastating earthquake in February. But the forest fires razing his home province of Latakia last week, turning his beloved orchards to ash, were the worst he had seen. “I’ve never seen any weather like this. The soil and the trees […]
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 […]
Report highlights “brutality against Christian clerics” in Syria, with five still missing
World Watch Monitor A report about violence against Syrian church leaders during the ongoing civil war shows that clerics have been beaten, abducted – five are still missing – and killed, and that 2013 was the worst year. In The Good Shepherd: A Report on Brutality against Christian Clerics in Syria March 25, 2011 – present’, […]
POSTCARDS: CAN THE SCOUTS HELP SAFEGUARD THE FUTURE OF THE CHURCH IN SYRIA?
World Watch Monitor reports from Syria on the role the Scouts are playing in helping to keep churches running…
US launches missile attack on Syrian airbase linked to chemical attack
The US has launched a missile attack on an airfield in Syria in response to the chemical weapons attack in the country’s Idlib province this week. Almost 60 Tomahawk missiles were reportedly launched from US warships, striking the Syrian Government airfield near the city of Homs. Reports have claimed the airfield was the location from […]