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Y! Big Story: Syria's 'civil war'
It took 15 months, more than 14,000 lives, and shots fired at United Nations monitors investigating a massacre before the U.N. called Syria's conflict a civil war. The acknowledgment came June 12 from the U.N. Under-Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Operations Herve Ladsous. Of course, unless the words "Syrian civil war" comes from the International Committee of [...]
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Growing jihadi presence in Syria 'alarming,' U.N. investigator says
Damascus, Syria (CNN) -- The growing presence of Islamic fundamentalist fighters is among the "most alarming" trends in Syria's civil war, a United Nations investigator said Monday."Some of them can be classified as jihadis," said P... Read Post
UN Warns Of 'Full-Blown' Civil War In Syria
The United Nations says the death toll in Syria's unrest now exceeds 3,000 and has warned of the danger of a "full-blown civil war" in the troubled country. The UN Commissioner for Human Rights, Navi Pillay, called for the internati... Read Post
UN monitors shot while trying to access new Syria massacre site
United Nations monitors in Syria that were trying to access the scene of "new massacres" in Hama province were shot with small arms, UN Security-General Ban Ki-Moon told the UN General Assembly. Moon said that he had just learned th... Read Post