Yahoo: Assad predicts disaster if West meddles in Syria

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http://www.dailystar.com.lb/News/Pol...#axzz1w2eo7T4S

PM postpones trip to Turkey, status of Lebanese pilgrims unclear

Prime Minister Najib Mikati postponed Saturday a scheduled visit to Turkey, amid growing uncertainty over the status of the 11 Lebanese who were kidnapped in Syria last week.

“As a result of the available data [Friday] on the release of the Lebanese hostages in Syria, tireless efforts by Turkey and after intensive contacts with the Turkish leadership, I had planned [Saturday] to leave on a visit to thank Turkey, given that the hostages were thought to have been released,” Mikati said in a statement.

“However, … after talks with President Michel Sleiman and Speaker Nabih Berri and contacts with Turkish officials I took the decision to delay my visit for a short period of time as all the information indicates that the negotiations and contacts are still ongoing to free the Lebanese and to [check] on their safety,” he added.

Ministerial sources told The Daily Star Saturday that Turkish officials were still negotiating for the release of the hostages, who are in good health and located in Syria near the border with Turkey.

https://twitter.com/#!/HamaEcho

Regime forces are surrounding Arba'in neighbourhood of Hama since a few minutes and people are fearing a raid and a massacre.
9:42 PM

happy i managed to get most of my family out of the country, safe from the massacres
10:26 PM

attack still ongoing and getting louder and stronger on arbain and surrounding neighbourhoods. BMP-1 shelling. machinegun attack continues on arbain neighbourhood of hama . can still hear gunfire from heavy machinegun.
10:37 PM

Regime has been attacking us for days, but they never shut down the internet and mobile, what are they planning tonight?
10:40 PM

regime is attacking a really big part of the city at 5:45 AM!! wtf
10:46 PM

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/27/wo...imes&seid=auto

U.S. Hopes Assad Can Be Eased Out With Russia’s Aid

In a new effort to halt more than a year of bloodshed in Syria, President Obama will push for the departure of President Bashar al-Assad under a proposal modeled on the transition in another strife-torn Arab country, Yemen.

The plan calls for a negotiated political settlement that would satisfy Syrian opposition groups but that could leave remnants of Mr. Assad’s government in place. Its goal is the kind of transition under way in Yemen, where after months of violent unrest, President Ali Abdullah Saleh agreed to step down and hand control to his vice president, Abdu Rabbu Mansour Hadi, in a deal arranged by Yemen’s Arab neighbors. Mr. Hadi, though later elected in an uncontested vote, is viewed as a transitional leader.

The success of the plan hinges on Russia, one of Mr. Assad’s staunchest allies, which has strongly opposed his removal.

In the past year, Russia has blocked any tough United Nations Security Council action against Mr. Assad, arguing that it could lead to his forced ouster and the kind of fates suffered by Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi of Libya, who was killed, or Hosni Mubarak of Egypt, who was imprisoned and put on trial. But Russia is facing intense international pressure to use its influence to bring about the removal of Mr. Assad as the killings in Syria continue unabated, including the massacre of more than 90 people in a village near Homs that was reported by United Nations officials on Saturday.

The Yemen example has been widely discussed in Moscow, so much so that the option has become known by its Russian term, “the Yemenskii Variant,” even in the United States. In part, that reflects Russia’s desperation for a solution to the crisis in Syria, where, the United Nations says, thousands of civilians have been killed since protests began there in March of last year.

Mr. Obama, administration officials said, will press the proposal with President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia next month at their first meeting since Mr. Putin returned to his old post on May 7. Thomas E. Donilon, Mr. Obama’s national security adviser, raised the plan with Mr. Putin in Moscow three weeks ago.

Except neither Assad nor the opposition will accept such a plan and it's not clear that Russia would really support it.

http://syriansun.info/the-nato-is-out-of-the-window/

The NATO is out of the Window!

Interesting Analysis.

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?p...17848338242310

Damascus: Eastern Ghouta: Multiple explosions and sounds of heavy gunfire were reported in a number of areas in Eastern Ghouta, from Masraba to Harasta, Saqba, Hammourieh, and Irbeen
8:24 PM

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?p...17848338242310

Hama: Regime forces are shelling Masha'a Arba'een, Arba'een Neighborhood, and Masha'a Wadi Jouz
10:49 PM

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?p...17848338242310

Homs: Houla: Renewed shelling on the town by regime forces
11:10 PM

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?p...17848338242310

Hama: Violent shelling on Wadi Jouz
11:16 PM

https://twitter.com/#!/freesyria74

The US response is so weak and shameful. Is this all u can say?! Clinton condemns Syria 'atrocity' in Houla - http://news.yahoo.com/clinton-condem...222337999.html
12:13 AM

http://gulfnews.com/news/region/syri...acre-1.1028254

Arab League to hold emergency meeting on Syria massacre

Kuwait City: Arab League foreign ministers are to hold an emergency meeting on a massacre in Syria in which UN observers say government forces killed 92 people, the bloc’s current president Kuwait said on Sunday.

"Kuwait will contact members of the Arab League to hold an emergency ministerial meeting to study the situation and take measures to put an end to the oppressive practices against the Syrian people," said a foreign ministry statement cited by the official Kuna news agency.

Kuwait has also made contacts at regional and international levels "to urge the international community to assume its responsibility to stop the bloodshed," the ministry said.

UAE Foreign Minister Shaikh Abdullah Bin Zayed Al Nahyan called on Saturday for an urgent Arab League meeting, saying the "massacre shows the failure of Arab and international efforts to stop the violence against civilians in Syria."

https://twitter.com/#!/NMSyria

BREAKING: The FSA has carried out an operation in retaliation to the HoulaMassacre. They have stormed a police station in Aleppo.
2:15 AM

They clashed with the security inside and locked many of them up, after seizing all the weapons in the building.
2:16 AM

Hama, Arbaeen: Khaled Zaino, a young man, was killed during the shelling of the city.
2:22 AM

https://twitter.com/#!/javierespinosa2

main danger for syrian revolt: regimen's sectarian trap,statement from Homs Revolutionary Council already full of sectarian stuff
2:26 AM

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?p...17848338242310

Hama: Violent clashes between the Free Syrian Army and the regime's army were reported in Mkaneh Zeraeye on Salamyeh road
2:57 AM

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https://twitter.com/#!/BBCWorldTonight

I didn't see anyone resembling AQ in northern Syria @martinchulov tells @bbcworldtonight..the global jihadi presence has been overstated
4:44 PM 24 May

https://twitter.com/#!/HamaEcho

Soldiers come again to our street and shoot at houses. They aim at the houses for no reason. We are not people to them, just target practice
12:33 PM

Gunfire and explosions still shaking the city. Assad's army attempted a massacre here today but are failing so far.
1:25 PM

For 15 hours now the gunfire and shelling continues in Hama city. 3 killed in Janoob al-Malaab neighbourhood from shelling.
1:36 PM

Another explosion. these sounds like something being launched then exploding. Maybe tank, shell or rocket.
1:45 PM

Now: Another shell impact in Hama, close and very loud. They are trying to make a massacre again.
1:53 PM

https://twitter.com/#!/MulhamJundi

Who claimed that "Human Rights" are their issue .. Prove it NOW #AlHoulahMassacre
2:14 PM

Syria is dying, children, woman, and men. it could be your baby and it could be your wife #AlHoulahMassacre
2:15 PM

Help them ! The Earth's children are dying ! Let the World see what happens when there is no justice! #AlHoulahMassacre
2:15 PM

Do you have mercy in your heart? The victims asking you! Where is your answers? #AlHoulahMassacre
2:17 PM

in the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends #AlHoulahMassacre
2:17 PM

Very urgent need for medical help in Janoob al-Malaab and Arba'in neighbourhoods of #Hama. so many wounded. SOS for Hama.
2:02 PM

https://twitter.com/#!/_RichardHall

UN Security Council to begin emergency meeting on Houla massacre in five minutes.
2:25 PM

Russia and Hezzbollah have both condemned the massacre, but have said that it is unclear who commited it and we should wait for facts to come out.


https://twitter.com/#!/BreakingNews

Head of UN monitors tells Security Council 116 people killed, 300 injured in massacre in Houla, Syria, diplomat says - @Reuters
2:50 PM

https://twitter.com/#!/AJELive

UN Security Council issues a draft statement - one not approved by Russia and China - on killings in Houla http://aje.me/jlCqCU
2:51 PM

http://blogs.aljazeera.net/liveblog/Syria

1 hour 25 min ago

The UN Security Council has sent a draft statement on the Houla killings:

The members of the Security Council condemned in the strongest possible terms the Syrian armed forces’ heavy shelling of a civilian populated area which resulted in the killing, confirmed by United Nations observers, of dozens of men, women and children and the wounding of hundreds more in the village of El-Houleh, near Homs. The members of the Security Council extended their profound sympathies and sincere condolences to the families of the victims, and underscore their grave concern about the lack of protection for civilians in Syria.

This indiscriminate and disproportionate use of force against civilian population constitutes a flagrant violation of international law, United Nations Security Council Resolutions 2042 and 2043 and of the commitments of the Syrian Government to cease the use of heavy weapons in population centres and violence in all its forms. Those responsible for perpetrating this crime must be held accountable. The members of the Security Council requested the United Nations Human rights Commissioner and the International independent Commission of inquiry to investigate these killings.

The members of the Security Council demanded that the Government of Syria immediately cease the use of heavy weapons in population centres and immediately pullback its troops and its heavy weapons from in and around population centres and return them to their barracks. They reiterated that all violence in all its forms by all parties must cease.

The members of the Security Council reiterated their full support to the efforts of the Joint Special Envoy for the implementation of its six point plan in its entirety and requested him to convey in the clearest terms to the Syrian authorities the condemnation and the demands of the Security Council.

https://twitter.com/#!/LeShaque

BREAKING AlArabiya / Reuters: Russia doubts the Assad regime's complicity in the AlHoulahMassacre
2:54 PM

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?p...17848338242310

Local Coordinating Committees:

26 martyrs are reported in Syria thus far, including 5 children,3 women, 5 dissidents and a media activist; 8 martyrs are reported in Damascus (Midan, Nahr Eisha), 6 martyrs in Hama, 4 Martyrs in Idlib, 4 martyrs in Homs, 2 martyrs in Damascus Suburbs (Yelda, Daraya) and 2 martyrs in Daraa(Zeizon, Ghiraya)

https://twitter.com/#!/HamaEcho

Hama city tonight: 70 wounded from shelling on Araba'in, 60 in Janoob al-Malaab. 14 critically injured.
2:58 PM

URGENT: Large numbers of wounded and dead due to shelling on Mashaa al-Firousieh, Hama
3:03 PM

Mashaa al-Firousieh, Hama is under heavy shelling for several hours. Most houses have been destroyed and at least 50 wounded.
3:04 PM

Military reinforcements heading to Hama city now containing tanks and trucks full of troops.
3:11 PM

Urgent: Number of dead in Hama due to shelling all day has risen to 25. Field hospitals in the city being targeted by regime forces.

Protest in Houla, Homs today.


Smoke rising from homes in Hama today

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https://twitter.com/#!/alextomo

UN told me their work was hampered by a Syrian Army armed APC their vehicles, firing 2 rounds and starting another firefight.
11:25 AM

Syrian army in Houla tells me Afghan, Libyan and Iraqi mercenaries massacred civilians. No proof offered.
1:22 PM

Ask youself this: civilians still in rebel-held Houla. None in army-held. Why have they fled army and not rebels?
1:24 PM

http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/...84Q0CS20120527

Shelling on Syria opposition centre kills 30: activists

At least thirty people were killed on Sunday when Syrian army tanks shelled residential neighborhoods in the city of Hama that have been serving as bases for rebel attacks against loyalist forces, opposition activists said.

The reports could not be verified independently.

Opposition sources said the shelling began in the morning on areas near the northern entrance of Hama, after a series of rebel attacks on army roadblocks in the city, and resumed in the evening on the southern al-Malaab district.

A video circulated by opposition sources purportedly showed a group of people, including two toddlers, lying wounded or dead on the floor of a mosque in the city, including several bodies with severed limbs.

https://twitter.com/#!/LeShaque

Gen. Mood is reportedly briefing the Security Council on the Houla Massacre, while another massacre is taking place in Hama.
3:49 PM

Me too RT @michaeldweiss: Eager to see how Russia puts death by shelling onto "terrorists"
3:57 PM

https://twitter.com/#!/columlynch

Gen Robert mood said that 85 victims at Taldou bore wound from shotgun fire and from wounds consistent with artillery fire, diplo source
3:58 PM

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?p...17848338242310

Hama: Bombs targeting a building in the sixth avenue in Abi AlFidaa suburbs, two families we severely injured and martyrs were reported to be fallen down
2:52 PM

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?p...17848338242310

Aleppo: Atareb: Rocket shelling of the city
3:29 PM

https://twitter.com/#!/albakhakh

BREAKING: 150 people between dead and wounded in a new massacre in Hama.
3:57 PM

https://twitter.com/#!/HamaEcho

All we want is just basic medical aid or the red crescent to visit the neighbourhoods that were shelled tonight.
3:59 PM

More are dying from their injuries in the shelling on Hama all day. 16 year old Ahmad Jassem died a few minutes ago.
4:15 PM

SOSHama WHERE SOSHama ARE SOSHama THE SOSHama ****ING SOSHama USELESS SOSHama OBSERVERS?? SOSHama
4:16 PM

Kafranbel's amazing cartoon on the UN observer mission. http://pic.twitter.com/B6rTJA0i
4:27 PM

https://twitter.com/#!/AnonymousSyria

I'm that close of picking up arms to fight against the regime. I really don't think it's ethical to blame Syrians for that.
4:53 PM

Assad must be stopped at all costs and by whatever it takes. Syrian population deserves protection from the ruling animals.
5:09 PM

A few months back he was against using violence and was for peaceful protesting only.
He was very critical of the idea of armed resistance.
Needless to say, his opinion like most Syrians has changed, though it took him longer.


https://twitter.com/#!/Thanku4theAnger

AJA: 40 martyrs at least killed in Hama with tens injured with womena & children
5:04 PM

https://twitter.com/#!/camanpour

Assad gives the world the finger: Can U.S/world stay hands-off!? http://bit.ly/JO7lYe
5:08 PM

https://twitter.com/#!/edwardedark

Assad can only be stopped through military intervention, otherwise with the support of Russia & Iran he will go on killing
5:11 PM

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?p...17848338242310

Local Coordination Committees:

51 martyrs in Syria thus far today, among them 11 children, 4 women and 6 defected soldiers, they are distributed as follows: 25 martyrs in Hama, 9 martyrs in Damascus (Midan, Naher Aisha and Asali), 6 martyrs in Homs, 5 martyrs in Damascus Suburbs (Yalda, Daraya, Douma and Ein Maneen), 4 martyrs in Idlib and 2 martyrs in Daraa (Zayzoun and Western Gharaya)
14 minutes ago

Notice that they only have 25 martyrs listed for Hama.
So it's possible that others have not been documented and the total will go way up today or tomorrow.
(since it's close to midnight there)

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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worl...ne-by-one.html

Syria Houla massacre: they moved from family to family, killing them one by one

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?p...17848338242310

Aleppo: Atareb: Two civilians were martyred in Kafr Karmeen and many others were wounded in the indiscriminate shelling of the city by regime forces
5:29 PM

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?p...17848338242310

Damascus: Assali: Another martyr fell in the neighborhood due to security force gunfire on a demonstration during the afternoon, the martyr was from Ammar family
5:29 PM

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?p...17848338242310

Aleppo: Powerful shelling of Atareb, Kafr Nooran, Sahara, Dar Azza, and Babki with heavy artillery and machine guns resulting in several injuries and a number of martyrs5:26 PM

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?p...17848338242310

Damascus Suburbs: Shabaa: Ezzedine Aziz, a Kurdish national from Ras Al-Ein and a resident of Shaaba, was martyred. In addition, his son Mohamad Zein, 4, and Khaled Abdel Nasser Hajirati from Hneitet Al-Turkman, were also martyred during the regime's indiscriminate gunfire in the area as they were raiding the town this evening
5:34 PM

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?p...17848338242310

Idlib: Sarmada: Three shells, coming in from Harat Al-Amoud, landed in the town
5:45 PM

Shelling of Atareb, Aleppo



https://twitter.com/#!/LeShaque

BRK Activists in Khan Sheikhon are reporting they just heard / felt a large explosion in their town.
5:31 PM

https://twitter.com/#!/HamaEcho

One of the saddest thing about the massacre tonight is that we called the UN observers to come for 17 hours. We will never forget this.
5:33 PM

Houla is less than 30 minutes away from Homs, so UN monitors can say "it's too far to respond" but what about Hama where they are inside?
5:38 PM

http://un-report.blogspot.co.uk/2012....html?spref=tw

Security Council's statement on Houla/Syria http://un-report.blogspot.co.uk/2012....html?spref=tw
5:43 PM

https://twitter.com/#!/blakehounshell

British envoy: "Well, the Annan plan is not dead…"
5:54 PM

"The fact is that there was an atrocity, and it wars perpetrated by the Syrian government." -British UN envoy
5:51 PM

Russian envoy: "Difficult to imagine that the Syrian government would not only shell or mortar…" And yet here we are.
6:01 PM

Now Russian envoy talking about a "third force." What an embarrassing load of crap.
6:01 PM

Jaafari's eyes shifting left and right; he's shifting from foot to foot as well. Knows he's lying.
6:12 PM

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?p...17848338242310

Jaafari says UN council statement "didn't blame Syria government. It indicate others might have done it." Here we go with twisting truth!
6:14 PM

In any case, UN diplomats will go home patting theirselves on the back tonight.
Meanwhile dozens of Syrians will continued to be slaughtered in their homes tonight.


https://twitter.com/#!/HamaEcho

Shelling restarted on Janoob al-Malaab neighbourhood of Hama and it getting more intense.
6:24 PM

Town of Maerdis in Hama countryside reports that 6 tanks are moving from there towards Hama city.
6:33 PM

https://twitter.com/#!/OmarShakir91

Hama Arbaaeen Neighborhood is under tanks shelling now
6:14 PM

Hama a new kid has been killed now Zain kondakjy three years old thanks UN
6:40 PM

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https://twitter.com/#!/HamaEcho

Today's massacre in Hama is really bad, more bad news will arrive in a few hours if the attack stops so there is more movement.
6:59 PM

There is still snipers all over Hama city tonight and they prevent people from moving. Also not possible to reached shelled areas.
7:05 PM

We urgently need medical assistance. Only UN or Red Crescent can break through this siege. There is big number of critically injured.
7:08 PM

https://twitter.com/#!/tweets4peace

A horrible tactic Assad uses is shelling at night, because you can't reach injuries or see as electricity gets cut..so they die slowly
7:12 PM

Okay Assad has gone mad tonight...dozens of neighborhoods across Syria are being attacked right now, news coming so fast. What's going on.
7:15 PM

https://twitter.com/#!/OnlySyrian

Assad's tanks are shelling Atareb town now in Aleppo country.
7:19 PM

People of the world wake up! Cities & towns full of human beings are being slaughtered now in Syria
7:23 PM

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?p...17848338242310

Homs: Several shellings shake Al-Khaldieh neighborhood accompanied with massive gunfire
7:22 PM

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?p...17848338242310

Aleppo: Atareb: Massive tank shelling on the city accompanied with a total electricity blackout
7:25 PM

https://twitter.com/#!/LeShaque

BRK AJA / activists: The death toll in Hama has increased to 75 amid continued shelling.
7:21 PM

We need to work overtime and raise awareness about the Hama massacre so that it is not lost in Houla massacre's shadows.
7:23 PM

While the UN was half-condemning Assad for the massacre his forces committed in Houla, another massacre was taking place in Hama.
7:24 PM

We don't know how many times we have to say this: Assad doesn't give a damn about condemnations. Get the hint already.
7:25 PM

Will the UN SC meet tomorrow to discuss the Hama massacre? What happens if tomorrow there is a third massacre somewhere else in Syria?
7:26 PM

https://twitter.com/#!/OmarShakir91

for the journalist who want to speak with some one from Hama i can help just send me massage
7:41 PM

http://www.extremeskins.com/showthre...94#post8951494
(First 30 days: 1,095 killed)
(Second 30 days(16 days in): 696 killed)

1,791 people killed since the ceasefire went into effect.

Pre-Ceasefire death total- 13,368
Current total- 15,157

I'm a bit uneasy about Sunday and Friday's totals though,.
I'm afraid that some of the late night casualties might have not have been documented until after they finshed the daily totals.
Neither day had a clearly stated end total and both days involved massacres in which the numbers mentioned on twitter and other places are higher than the listed LCC totals for them that I've seen.


Protest in Marat Harma, Idlib


Kurdish funeral in Qadam, Damascus

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https://twitter.com/#!/THE_47th

In other sad, sad news, Homs lost 3 of its bst activists lst night, including Laurence Fehmi, Cham News' in charge live feed. RIP Abu Omar
2:17 AM

https://twitter.com/#!/OrenKessler

Poll on Russia Today's Arabic Facebook page: Who's responsible for Houla massacre in Syria? Opposition, terrorists or armed gangs?
3:29 AM

https://twitter.com/#!/HamaEcho

More people have been dying overnight in Hama. I'm waiting for Hama Military Council to officially end co-operation with Annan's plan.
3:28 AM

There's been gunfire and explosions still this morning, I hope it's FSA response to these massacres and not another attack on the city.
3:32 AM

Residents of Damascus today reporting a general strike in Bab Srijeh and al-Hariqa markets, both key markets.
4:13 AM

Assad's army now raiding Andalus neighbourhood of Hama, snipers were placed in the neighbourhood early in the morning.
4:24 AM

General strikes in the main markets of #Damascus today condemning the regime's massacres. http://pic.twitter.com/eYJKHZiS
5:12 AM

https://twitter.com/#!/SkyNewsBreak

AFP: Syrian official says Kofi Annan will meet President Assad on Tuesday.
3:40 AM

https://twitter.com/#!/oxfordgirl

Pathetic, we rushed into Libya and blew it to kingdom come, but fot Syria we have to hope and pray that Assad suddenly becomes human!
4:46 AM

Hague – looked like a defeated man, the Russians will not budge on their support of Syria. Hague says this is only option we have
4:45 AM

Hague you backboneless moron - children were murdered - stand up and say that someone has to do something or else - pathetic
4:50 AM

https://twitter.com/#!/MartinxHodgson

"I was so terrified I couldn’t stand. I looked outside & saw all of my family members shot." Houla http://bit.ly/MSun6C
4:24 AM

Hague saying Russia and UK agree Annan plan is "best hope" for Syria. No hope at all, then.
4:43 AM

https://twitter.com/#!/Skytwitius

At the Russian/UK press conference William Hague looked like a man who'd gone to Moscow and got NOTHING on Syria from the Kremlin.
5:00 AM

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?p...17848338242310

Daraa: Dael: More than 6 explosions were heard in the city
4:48 AM

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?p...17848338242310

Daraa: Dael: The regime's army is deployed in all streets, and random gunfire at homes is reported
5:21 AM

https://twitter.com/#!/HamaEcho

First Russia accuses of an "external third force" now they say "both Syrian sides" are responsible for Houla. Learn to have consistent lies.
5:39 AM

Most shops on strike in the main market of Damacus, Souk El-Hamidiyeh today http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CCF3o...ature=youtu.be
5:47 AM

The strike today in Damascus is unprecedented in the history of the revolution. In response to this week of brutal massacres.
5:50 AM

https://twitter.com/#!/Nigello

UN tells @BBCNews: Kofi Annan has arrived in Damascus and is making his way to his hotel, where he will brief journalists
6:09 AM

Shelling destruction in Hama yesterday.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJBr6...ature=youtu.be

Shelling of Khaldiya, Homs today.


Shelling of Hamidiya, Homs today.

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http://www.dailystar.com.lb/News/Mid...#axzz1w9vv6Z1l

ROME: Italy is ready to support humanitarian corridors as part of any tougher U.N. resolution aimed at ending the bloodshed in Syria, its foreign minister said on Monday after a massacre triggered global outrage.

"We cannot stand by and watch dozens of children killed so brutally. We must do something," Giulio Terzi told La Stampa after 108 people, including many children were slaughtered in the central Syrian town of Houla.

He said Rome would support a "more robust" U.N. resolution but that the role of China and especially Russia, which have previously voted against resolutions on the crisis, was "crucial."

Terzi also said Italy was setting up a field hospital in Jordan across the border from Syria in an area that would be able to accommodate up to 3,000 refugees, and was planning to send medical kits that could treat 10,000 people.

http://www.cnn.com/2012/05/28/world/...est/index.html

"By God, I washed the dead bodies of nine children. One was less than nine months old!" a man screamed to a U.N. observer. "Why are they treating us like animals? We are humans. Did the infant carry an RPG? Was he a fighter? It was a baby, he had a pacifier in his mouth."

Images from Houla show a room crammed with the mangled and bloody bodies of children -- some with their skulls torn open.

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?p...17848338242310

Daraa: Tafas: Two people were wounded by security forces at Omary mosque, one of them is seriously injured in the head
6:19 AM

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?p...17848338242310

Hama: Ali Ahmad Kereij, 50 years old, was martyred by regime's sniper's fire in Jarajemeh neighborhood while he was driving back from the Main Bakery
6:26 AM

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?p...17848338242310

Homs: Artillery shelling has renewed in Old Homs neighborhoods, Jouret Al-Sheyah, Qarabees, Qusour, Khaldieh and Hameedieh, accompanied by gunfire using heavy weaponry from Ghardenia Tower in Ghouta neighborhood
6:33 AM

https://twitter.com/#!/itsEnas

Watch the massive numbers in the funeral procession in Al Tal, Damascus. Now chanting for the FSA : http://bambuser.com/v/2684173
6:51 AM

http://www.utsandiego.com/news/2012/...acre-in-syria/

Special envoy Kofi Annan said Monday he was horrified by a gruesome weekend massacre that killed more than 100 people in Syria, and called on "every individual with a gun" to lay down arms and stop the killing.

Annan arrived in Damascus Monday for talks with Syrian President Bashar Assad and other senior officials.

"I have come to Syria at a critical moment in this crisis," Annan said as he arrived in Damascus on Monday. "I am personally shocked and horrified by the tragic incident in Houla."

He called on all sides of the conflict to end the bloodshed.

"This message of peace is ... for everyone, for every individual with a gun," he said.

What a pointless statement.

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http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012...ces?CMP=twt_gu

Syrian army being aided by Iranian forces

A senior commander in Iran's Revolutionary Guards has admitted that Iranian forces are operating in Syria in support of Bashar al-Assad's regime.

Ismail Gha'ani, the deputy head of Iran's Quds force, the arm of the Revolutionary Guards tasked with overseas operations, said in an interview with the semi-official Isna news agency: "If the Islamic republic was not present in Syria, the massacre of people would have happened on a much larger scale."

Isna published the interview at the weekend but subsequently removed it from its website.

It quoted Gha'ani as saying: "Before our presence in Syria, too many people were killed by the opposition but with the physical and non-physical presence of the Islamic republic, big massacres in Syria were prevented."

I'm wary of this though, since there hasn't been a lot of evidence or mention of recent spottings of Iranian soldiers or such. (I've definitely seen mentions of Hezzbollah not too long ago though.)
Also the first place I saw this news was on an Israeli site.


http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worl...s-efforts.html

Syria: Russia refuses to change stance despite William Hague's efforts

Sergei Lavrov, Russia's foreign minister, insisted that "both sides" in Syria's conflict were responsible for the deaths of at least 108 people in the town on Friday, and that Russia was not interested in trying to remove Bashar al-Assad from power.

Mr Hague had expressed hope on Sunday that he could persuade the Kremlin to lean on the Syrian president - whose forces are suspected of committing the massacre – to curtail the spiralling violence.

Yet while the Foreign Secretary and Mr Lavrov called for renewed efforts to implement UN-Arab League envoy Kofi Annan's peace plan after a tense meeting in the Russian capital, neither suggested concrete steps for how to achieve the ceasefire and troop withdrawals that it demands.

Mr Lavrov even chided Mr Hague for calling for Mr Assad's departure, saying he doubted the sincerity of those who called for peace while asking for regime change.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012...ria?CMP=twt_gu

Houla massacre survivor tells how his family were slaughtered

An 11-year old boy has described how he smeared himself in the blood of his slain brother and played dead as loyalist gunmen burst into his home and killed six members of his family during the start of a massacre in Houla, central Syria.

Speaking to the Guardian, the young survivor said government troops arrived in his district around 3am on Saturday, several hours after shells started reining down on Houla.

"They came in armoured vehicles and there were some tanks," said the boy. "They shot five bullets through the door of our house. They said they wanted Aref and Shawki, my father and my brother. They then asked about my uncle, Abu Haidar. They also knew his name."

Shivering with fear, the boy stood towards the back of the entrance to his family home as gunmen then shot dead every family member in front of him.

https://twitter.com/#!/IvanCNN

rebel Green Idlib Battalion commander tells CNN his men attacked regime forces in Atareb last nite, burned police station/city hall.
7:46 AM

Akil from Green Idlib Battalion says rebel attack on Atareb was response to Houla massacre. Claims regime retaliated w/chopper fire.
7:47 AM

Mohammed HajTaha fled Atareb to Turkey early this morning after Syrian artillery wounded his brother, who died 2day in a Turkish hospital.
8:48 AM

Haj Taha:I'm at hospital now, filling out paperwork for my brother,who died after being wounded by artillery. Our home was totally destroyed
8:53 AM

https://twitter.com/#!/martinchulov

Seconded RT @ian_black Syria is looking more like Bosnia 20 years ago http://gu.com/p/37qnn/tw via @guardian
9:03 AM

https://twitter.com/#!/tweets4peace

Jobar: electricity cut totally, artillery+ missile shelling still going on. 1 death + 17 injuries so far (10 are due to shelling)
1:44 PM

7 of the 17 injuries are due to the regime checkpoint at Kafar Aya junction opening fire onto an entire family.
1:45 PM

Entrances to Jobar shut, huge reinforcements have arrived and its almost certain they're about to launch an on ground invasion, again.
2:37 PM

https://twitter.com/#!/edwardedark

Assad supporters on social media are now celebrating & gloating at the death of 13 kids at a mall fire in Qatar calling it a victory
12:52 PM

https://twitter.com/#!/MagdyBasha123

BREAKING: Assad regime is shelling site of HoulaMassacre
2:40 PM

Bastards!

[visionary]

http://blogs.aljazeera.com/liveblog/Syria

2 hours 42 min ago

Syrian authorities on Monday blamed "Islamist militants" for the massacre of 108 men, women and children in the town of Houla and denied UN and witness accounts that army tanks were in the area at the time.

In a letter to the UN Security Council published by state media, the foreign ministry said the Syrian army had clashed with hundreds of armed men who it said committed Friday's massacre.

The ministry said the killers used knives, which it called a "signature" of attacks by Islamist fighters. It said three Syrian soldiers were killed and 16 wounded.

Not a single tank entered the region and the Syrian army was in a state of self-defence using the utmost degree of self control and appropriate response, and anything other than this is pure lies."

"The terrorist armed groups ... entered with the purpose of killing and the best proof of that is the killing by knives, which is the signature of terrorist groups who massacre according to the Islamist way."

2 hours 2 min ago

John Baird, the Canadian foreign minister, has called on the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) to take "stronger diplomatic action" against Syria following the Houla massacre that killed more than 100 people, including 49 children.

In a statement issued on Monday, Baird said "there must be repercussions for [Bashar] al-Assad's refusal to implement the Security Council-endorsed Annan Peace Plan".

Baird went on to say that Ottawa is calling "on all Security Council members to come together and adopt strong measures -- including economic sanctions -- against the Syrian regime, to ensure that it fulfills its commitments and immediately stops the senseless slaughter of its own people".

https://twitter.com/#!/M_akbik

Cinema director Bassel Shehada was killed under shelling of Homs today.
4:27 PM

https://twitter.com/#!/NMSyria

Fierce rocket shelling of Qusair in Homs.
4:43 PM

https://twitter.com/#!/Visionaryck

Explosions and gunfire aren't stopping in Homs. It's like Annan's plan didn't exit. The Syrian regime spits in the face of the world
2:50 PM

Three massive explosions happened not far from my house. It's dark so I can't tell for sure what happened.
5:10 PM

Explosions are getting closer. I don't know if people are getting hurt. I can barely move cause my back is very sore.
5:43 PM

My phone's battery is dying. I'll charge it. Will tweet if anything unusual happen. (Shelling and shooting is usual).
7:42 PM

CNN is covering Syria right now.
Anderson is talking to a reporter in Houla, Homs who saw the aftermath of the massacre.
He says there are more bodies than the UN observers saw that were buried earlier or elsewhere.


https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?p...17848338242310

Homs: Qussair: Fierce rocket shelling at Jossiya, Nizariya and Basatin Alqussair
4:16 PM

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?p...17848338242310

Homs: Heavy mortar shelling and intense gunfire were reported in Qarabees and Jouret Al-Shayah
5:59 PM

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?p...17848338242310

Homs: Heavy mortar shelling was reported in Qosour and regime forces targeted the area media office for the second time
6:04 PM

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?p...17848338242310

Homs: Mouhanad Arabi Al-Najjar was martyred as a result of the heavy shelling in Bab Dreib
6:05 PM

https://twitter.com/#!/i_magpie

How long can the “free & civilised” world continue to bury its head in shame while Assad continues to soak his hands in Syrian blood?
8:28 PM

https://www.facebook.com/permalink.p...21855461256134

Kurdish protesters break into security branch

Hasakeh province: Kurdish protesters enraged by the recent massacres stormed the security branch in the city of Amouda.
8:30 PM

https://twitter.com/#!/NMSyria

BREAKING: Dorms at the University of Damascus are being stormed by security forces and arrests being made.
9:08 PM

We saw how brutal the regime was when it stormed Aleppo University... and Damascus University is being stormed as we speak.
9:10 PM

https://twitter.com/#!/HamaEcho

Dozens of men arrested in the storming of Arba'in neighbourhood of Hama http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uWe7l...ature=youtu.be
9:01 PM

Protest in Daraa, Dael after shelling

[visionary]

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012...redirect=false

Houla massacre: US military warns Syria as pressure builds on Obama

General Martin Dempsey, the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, said that following the UN security council's condemnation of the slaughter – in which more than 100 people were killed, many of them children – there needed to be increased diplomatic pressure on Damascus. But he added that the US would be prepared to act militarily if it was "asked to do so".

"There is always a military option," he told Fox News. "You'll always find military leaders to be somewhat cautious about the use of force, because we're never entirely sure what comes out on the other side. But that said, it may come to a point with Syria because of the atrocities."

http://www.cnn.com/2012/05/28/world/...macy-deadlock/

Syria: Diplomatic deadlock, deaths go on

But few Middle East watchers predict the atrocities in Houla will break the diplomatic deadlock that has cemented itself around Syria for the last 15 months.

"Nobody can see these images and not react," said Rami Khouri, a veteran analyst of the Arab world who lectures at the American University of Beirut in Lebanon.

"The problem is no one has figured out an effective way to get involved and bring this conflict to an end."

"Overall, the strategy coming from the White House is procrastinate, try to emphasize the diplomatic initiative, talk about helping the opposition, but do not really ratchet up rhetoric into full confrontation with Russia and Iran."

After initially rejecting armed rebellion against the government, the Syrian opposition has morphed into a patchwork of loosely coordinated rebel groups determined to bring down the Syrian president.

But they have been woefully under-funded and poorly armed. For months, demonstrators across Syria have chanted, "Arm the Free Syrian army" at protests that are filmed and then distributed around the world via YouTube.

https://twitter.com/#!/zaidbenjamin

Basil Shehada [28] a Syrian Christian was killed in an assault by government forces in Homs
9:53 PM

https://twitter.com/#!/AnonymousSyria

Hand-made armored vehicle in Homs. No joke at all. The original car was a Suzuki pickup http://goo.gl/YSyI2
10:17 PM

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?p...17848338242310

Aleppo: Atareb: The city is groaning under the weight of the vicious attack by the regime's army, who are using all types of heavy weapons, from tanks and missile launchers to cannons
10:45 PM

The FSA reportedly burned the police station and town hall there last night to get the security forces to leave the town. It seems to have mostly just made them crack down harder. Parts of Atareb have been shelled by regime forces for months though on and off before that. The regime has also committed a few mini massacres there and used helicopters to attack homes as well.


https://twitter.com/#!/AmalHanano

For people asking who could be capable of committing HoulaMassacre, they should RememberSakher, the Dr who was tortured to death.
11:38 PM

GRAPHIC: Dr Sakher's body was mutilated, his head riddled with drill holes; he was barely recognizable, but his shoes were shining.
11:40 PM

https://twitter.com/#!/luv2live2

RememberSakher illegally detained by Assad's thugs at his medical practice for attending a medical conference in the USA
11:37 PM

RememberSakher his corpse--eyes gouged, genitals mutilated, bones broken--in a ditch and brought him to the coroner's office
11:43 PM

https://twitter.com/#!/MagdyBasha123

@statedept & BarackObama continue to hide behind Russia. Time 4 statements is over! Ur inaction is enabling Assad on massacring Syrians
12:26 AM

Shelling of Qusor neighborhood, Homs
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E7nMJ...ature=youtu.be


http://www.lccsyria.org/8665

The Local Coordination Commitees in Syria:

The number of martys has risen to 26 thus far, among them 2 women, 3 children, and 8 FSA members. 9 martyrs were reported in Hama, 5 in Deir Ezzor, 5 in Homs, 3 in Daraa, 2 in Aleppo, 1 in Qaboun in Damascus, and 1 in Yabroud in the Damascus Suburbs

Once again I'm confused by the daily death toll.
This one was posted pretty early in the day and there weren't any updates since then.
I also saw another group posting a much hugher number.

[visionary]

http://blogs.aljazeera.net/liveblog/syria

3 hours 23 min ago -
Australia has expelled two Syrian diplomats in response to the massacre at Houla, Bob Carr, the Australian foreign minister has announced.

Syrian charge d'affaires Jawdat Ali was notified of Carr's decision to expel him and one other diplomat within 72 hours, a day after he was called in to meet with officials over the killings which sparked global condemnation.[AFP]

1 hour 57 min ago -

Syrian troops have shot dead a Lebanese man and wounded three others in the country's eastern border region, a security official has told the AFP news agency.

"Syrian soldiers opened fire at 00:30 am (2130 GMT Monday) on a farmhouse in Al-Qaa region, killing one person and injuring three others," the Lebanese security official told AFP, speaking on condition of anonymity.

The man's body was transported to his home town Arsal, near Al-Qaa, he said.

A local official, Ali al-Hojairi, said the Syrian soldiers were on Lebanese soil when they opened fire. He added that the four Lebanese were out hunting rabbits when they were hit.[AFP]

14 min 50 sec ago
French President Francois Hollande has announced that the Syrian ambassador to the country is to be expelled.

13 min 50 sec ago
Francois Hollande, the French president, says that the Syrian ambassador to Paris will leave "today or tomorrow", but has provided no further details.

https://twitter.com/#!/HamaEcho

15 year olds Hamza and Khaled were killed by a sniper near their home in Hama today.
3:43 AM

Many residents of Arba'in neighbourhood of Hama are missing after the attack. Some fled, some were executed and some were arrested.
5:00 AM

Tareeq Halab is under attack, most explosions/shelling stopped, there is still gunfire though.
5:04 AM

FSA and residents ask the UN observers to leave Azaz because of massacres & shellling that come after their visits https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HFIA...ature=youtu.be
7:00 AM

Observers went to Kafranbel today, it's a shame because this wonderful town will likely be punished for this visit.
7:01 AM

Homes burning from shelling on Old Homs a few minutes ago. http://twitpic.com/9qkrux
7:13 AM

https://twitter.com/#!/MrHalimi

The Australian FM said that other nations will be taking similar steps tonight. Most likely UK, Canada and US.
3:41 AM

https://twitter.com/#!/martinchulov

Australia expels head of Syria embassy. Suggests more international sanctions to be announced today. Probably expulsions.
3:52 AM

https://twitter.com/#!/KatalystProds

"The Syrian army is jamming the [UN] radios ... " http://bit.ly/KZ95DG
6:53 AM

https://twitter.com/#!/SkyNewsBreak

Sky sources: Britain has expelled the Syrian Charge D'Affaires and two other diplomats.
7:19 AM

Germany also announces expulsion of Syrian Ambassador.
7:19 AM

https://twitter.com/#!/BigAlBrand

We went out asking the world to expel Syrian ambassadors six months ago. We named a Friday for this. SIX MONTHS AGO.
7:33 AM

Houla is still under attack and starvation

https://twitter.com/#!/tweets4peace

Central Alhouleh is being hit with Shilka (anti-aircraft) and tank shells now, shelling is intensifying. Homs
7:32 AM

Food including vegetables, bread and other basic humanitarian needs were prevented entry to Alhouleh by regime checkpoints today.
7:33 AM

https://twitter.com/#!/ZeinakhodrAljaz

Annan expected to visit Lebanon and Jordan; spokesman
7:41 AM

Interesting, and possibly worrying.


https://twitter.com/#!/BreakingNews

Canada says it will expel all remaining Syrian diplomats immediately - @Reuters
7:51 AM

https://twitter.com/#!/KareemLailah

Spain expelled the Syrian ambassador.
7:53 AM

[Stadium-Armory]

At what point are we forced to take military action? 100 murdered children? 500? 5,000?

At what point does it become our business?

[thebluefood]

At what point are we forced to take military action? 100 murdered children? 500? 5,000?

At what point does it become our business?

The United States alone or NATO forces?

Situations like this are a Catch-22. If you don't intervene, then you're accused of standing by and ignoring a big problem. If you intervene, then you're accused of being overbearing and meddling in someone else's business.

[visionary]

http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/...84S14L20120529

White House: U.S. military role in Syria would cause more chaos

The White House said on Tuesday it did not believe military intervention in Syria was the right course of action at this time because it would lead to greater chaos and carnage.

White House spokesman Jay Carney told a briefing, however, that the United States had not taken any options - including military action - off of the table with regard to dealing with the Syrian crisis.

Earlier on Tuesday, the administration expelled Syria's top diplomat in Washington following what it described as the massacre of more than 100 civilians in the Syrian town of Houla.

This is the first time I've heard the White House or State Department say that intervention is not being taken off the table. It doesn't mean it will happen necessarily, but they've previously ruled it out emphatically every time.


http://www.aljazeera.com/news/middle...325815473.html

Syrian ambassadors and diplomats have been expelled from countries including the US, several European Union nations and Gulf Arab states in protest over a massacre blamed by witnesses on pro-government forces.

Other nations joining the action on Tuesday included the UK, Canada, Australia, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Belgium, Bulgaria and the Netherlands in what Washington described as a move "in co-ordination with partner countries".

http://blogs.aljazeera.com/liveblog/Syria

7 hours 53 min ago

Iran has reiterated its support for Kofi Annan's six-point peace plan, calling it the only way to the end the crisis in Syria.

"The best solution in this situation is to support Kofi Annan and his plan to restore order in Syria, preparing the ground for a dialogue between government and opposition and helping the Syrian government to implement reforms," foreign ministry spokesman Ramin Mehmanparast told reporters.

2 hours 46 min ago - Syria

Sergei Lavrov, the Russian foreign minister, said on Tuesday that some countries are trying to derail the peace plan offered by the UN and Arab League envoy to Syria Kofi Annan. He also said the Syrian opposition is trying to incite civil war in the country.

Lavrov said the following at a joint news briefing with his Peruvian counterpart Rafael Roncagliolo in Moscow:

We are certainly worried by continuing attempts to derail Kofi Annan's plan. Now the pretext being used is the tragic events outside the town of Houla on May 25."

"We were simply stunned by the public statement made yesterday or today by the leader of the Syrian National Council Burhan Ghalioun who openly called on all Syrian opposition forces to continue, as he put it, the liberation struggle until the UN Security Council approves the outside military intervention. This is a direct incitement to civil war."

"It directly contradicts Kofi Annan's plan, because Kofi Annan's plan stipulates the unification of the Syrian opposition not on the platform of civil war but on the platform of readiness for a dialogue with the authorities.

"And I don't know how the sponsors of the Syrian National Council can support efforts to unite all Syrian opposition under that umbrella."

Ghalioun said that on Saturday.

2 hours 41 min ago

The United States said Tuesday that it hopes the massacre in Syria sparks a "turning point" in Russia's reluctance to take tougher action against Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.

"Is this going to be a turning point in Russian thinking? We hope so," Victoria Nuland, the US state department spokesperson, told reporters when asked if Washington saw moves in Moscow toward further action on Syria. -- AFP

CNN's video report on the Houla Massacre, graphic footage
http://edition.cnn.com/video/#/video...iref=allsearch


https://twitter.com/#!/Samsomhoms

Midday here's Homs. It's raining both rain & mortar shell while martyres' souls raising up to the sky. No place for boring here
5:23 AM

Mortar Shell landed on a mosque in the old city of Homs by Assad gangs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FHwOGYLIs38
2:26 PM

Implementation of Annan's Plan by Syrian regime today, setting up new rocket launchers near University of Homs to be used to bomb
2:31 PM

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?p...17848338242310

Damascus Suburbs: Beit Sahhem: Security forces raided the town amid intense gunfire, a heavy detention and detention campaign. Assad forces ransacked and destroyed the stores that participated in the general strike
9:09 AM

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?p...17848338242310

Yabroud: [Damascus Suburbs] Regime tanks are shelling the city amid powerful explosions and intense gunfire following the UN visit to the town
9:53 AM

Aleppo: Babka: Ms. Zoulouj Amin Al-Khateeb was martyred due to the regime's helicopter shelling in her village today
10:19 AM

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?p...17848338242310

Damascus Suburbs: Douma: Shelling Al-ob neighborhood by tanks is reported; heavy gunfire can be heard from the Shifoniya direction
10:39 AM

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?p...17848338242310

Aleppo: Batbo: Helicopters are shelling the village and columns of smoke can be seen rising in the sky
10:54 AM

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?p...17848338242310

Hama: Child Mahmoud Adnan Al-Owair (14 years old) was martyred by regime's sniper at Union of Workers building, while he was crossing the street
12:48 PM

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?p...17848338242310

Homs: Qosair: Female child Marah Ahmad Mardash (8 months old) was martyred due to massive bombing in Tal Binny village
12:55 PM

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?p...17848338242310

Homs: Qosair: Child Ali Fayez Al-Ahmad, from Khaldieh neighborhood, was martyred due to the violent shelling in the city
1:14 PM

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?p...17848338242310

Homs: Houla: Violent shelling from the Water Company checkpoint using Shilka and tanks is reported in the city
1:48 PM

I guess they'll keep attacking Houla until there's nothing and no one left.


https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?p...17848338242310

Damascus Suburbs: Douma: Shells were launched by the Medical Tower's sniper and the municipality barricades directly at an evening demonstration
2:40 PM

The observers have been there for a month and a half with almost nothing to show for it.
https://twitter.com/#!/ZeinakhodrAljaz

ANNAN: Those who believe the monitors have failed, I would suggest it is a bit hasty, they just got here
3:32 PM

France : military intervention in Syria is not ruled out if approved by UN security council
3:33 PM

Never going to happen then.
What about a UN emergency session?



https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?p...17848338242310

Local Coordination Committees:

62 Syrian martyrs were reported so far, including 2 women, 9 children, and 8 Free Syrian Army soldiers: 15 martyrs in Deir Ezzor; including 13 unidentified corpses that were thrown by security this morning, 19 martyrs in Homs, 7 martyrs in Aleppo (Atareb, Mangh, and Babka), 8 martyrs in Damascus Suburbs (Irbeen, Qatana, Kafar Batna, Qara, Ain Tarma), 5 martyrs in Daraa (Yadoda, Om Walad, and Daraa Balad) 5 martyrs in Hama, 2 martyrs in Idlib, and 1 martyr in Damascus
about an hour ago

UN Observers arrive in Kafranbel



Funeral in Jobar neighborhood, Damascus

[visionary]

http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/...84S1A720120529

France to push Russia on Syria sanctions, expels envoy

French President Francois Hollande said on Tuesday he would try to convince Russia's Vladimir Putin to back Security Council sanctions against Syria, and said military action could be possible but only if it was backed by a U.N. resolution.

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?p...17848338242310

Idlib: The random shelling has intensified by the regime's army in Ihsem town
3:34 PM

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?p...17848338242310

Homs: The regime's army is massively shelling the neighborhoods of Old Homs, and launching gunfire using heavy machine guns. Snipers are stationed on the rooftop of the Police Headquarters
4:29 PM

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?p...17848338242310

Homs: Artillery shelling has intensified in Khaldieh neighborhood at a rate of four shells in less than five minutes
4:30 PM

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?p...17848338242310

Idlib: A BMP vehicle's crew has defected from the regime's army and joined the Free Syrian Army. They were stationed on the International highway in Idlib city
4:42 PM

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?p...17848338242310

Idlib: Jisr Al-Shoghour: Regime's army is storming Najya village amid heavy gunfire and mortar shells
5:02 PM

https://twitter.com/#!/NMSyria

BREAKING: Regime forces have stormed Qatana, a Damascus Suburb. Homes have been burnt - casualties reported.
5:40 PM

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?p...17848338242310

Damascus Suburbs: Douma: Many were wounded due to the intensive shelling on residential houses in the city; and which continues by tanks and heavy graded machine guns for four consecutive hours now
5:47 PM

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?p...17848338242310

Local Coordination Committees in Syria:

The number of martyrs in Syria has reached 72, including 2 women, 9 children and 8 soldiers from the Free Syrian Army.

24 martyrs were reported in Homs, 15 martyrs in Deir Ezzor, including 13 unidentified corpses that were disposed of by security forces this morning, 7 in Aleppo (Atareb, Mangh and Babkeh), 10 in Damascus Suburbs (Arbeen, Qatana, Kafar Batna, Qara and Ein Tarma), 6 in Hama, 5 in Daraa (Yadoudeh, Um Walad, and Daraa Balad), 3 in Damascus, and 2 in Idlib
56 minutes ago

Protest in Kafer Souseh, Damascus


Protest in Sarmada, Idlib