Syria
By Johannes LEDEL Stockholm (AFP) - Un tribunal de Stockholm a acquitté jeudi un ancien général syrien accusé de crimes de guerre dans son pays en 2012, jugeant insuffisantes les preuves de son implication. Mohammed Hamo, âgé de 65 ans et vivant en Suède, a été jugé au printemps pour "complicité" de crimes de guerre entre janvier et juillet 2012. L'armée syrienne a bien commis des "attaques aveugles, contraires au droit international" dans un quartier de Homs (centre) et dans la ville d'Al Rastan en 2012 mais "aucune preuve" n'a été présentée pour démontrer que la 11e division de l'ancien géné...
AFP (Français)
By Robin MILLARD Genève (AFP) - En ruines, le système de santé syrien doit faire l'objet d'une réflexion pour stopper l'exode à l'étranger du personnel médical, qui en est réduit à pratiquer "une médecine du IVe siècle", a réclamé une haute responsable de l'Organisation mondiale de la santé. La situation en Syrie est "catastrophique", avec un nombre "ahurissant" de personnes dans le besoin et une malnutrition infantile à un niveau alarmant, explique dans un entretien avec l'AFP Mme Hanan Balkhy, la directrice régionale de l'OMS pour la Méditerranée orientale, qui a pris ses fonctions en févrie...
AFP (Français)
Israel's military confirmed the deaths of four more hostages held by Hamas - including three older men who were seen in a Hamas video begging for their release. Around 80 hostages captured on October 7 are believed to be still alive in Gaza, alongside the remains of 43 others. Israel’s military spokesperson Daniel Hagari, said the four men died together in the southern Gaza city of Khan Younis when Israel was operating there. The cause of death was not immediately known. “We are checking all of the options,” Hagari said. “There are a lot of questions.” G7 countries fully endorse Biden's ceasef...
Euronews (English)
At least six people were killed on Monday in a suspected Israeli airstrike on an area near the Syrian-Lebanese border, according to activists and Syrian sources. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported that a headquarters of Lebanon's pro-Iranian Hezbollah militia in al Qussair, south of the city of Homs, was hit in the attack. The victims are said to have been Hezbollah members, the Observatory said. The UK-based war monitor said several people were injured and the death toll is likely to rise. The Israeli military declined to comment on the report when asked. Israel's air force repe...
DPA Breaking News
Washington (AFP) - The United States announced Tuesday it had brought back two dozen Western citizens, half of them Americans, from Islamic State prison camps in northeastern Syria where tens of thousands have languished. The repatriation is the largest ever of US citizens and comes as rights groups warn of dire conditions in the camps still in use some five years after the ultra-violent extremist movement lost its last territory in Syria. In a complex operation involving US agencies, Kuwait and pro-US Kurdish fighters, the United States repatriated 11 US citizens, including five minors, as we...
AFP
Refugee reception and accomodation centres in Cyprus are full, with around 25,000 asylum seekers hoping they will be granted international protection. But the influx is having significant - and wide reaching - effects on the Mediterranean island. Watch the full report in the player above to find out more.
Euronews (English)
Residents of Damascus have been sensitive to booming sounds since a suspected Israeli bombardment targeted an Iranian embassy building in the Syrian capital earlier this week, a war monitor reported on Saturday. On Monday, two brigadier generals and five other members of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) were killed in an airstrike on the Iranian embassy compound in Damascus, triggering vows of retribution from Tehran. Israel has not commented on the incident. Residents of Damascus have since been panicked by any powerful sounds, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Righ...
DPA Breaking News
An Israeli airstrike has destroyed the consular section of Iran's embassy in Damascus, killing or wounding everyone inside, Syrian state media said on Monday. Iran's Arabic-language state TV, Al-Alam, and the pan-Arab station Al-Mayadeen, with journalists in Syria, reported that the strike resulted in the death of General Ali Reza Zahdi. The Iranian military adviser led the elite Quds Force in Lebanon and Syria until 2016. Iranian Ambassador Hossein Akbari condemned Israel and said as many as seven people were killed, but first responders were still searching for any other bodies under the rub...
Euronews (English)
By Hazel Gandhi An old video from 2013 is being falsely shared as Israeli soldiers torturing Palestinian victims in captivity amid the ongoing Israel-Palestine conflict. BOOM found that the claims are false; the video is from 2013 and shows pro-Bashar al-Assad rebels in Syria stabbing and stoning two men to death. The Israel-Palestine conflict began after Hamas launched an unprecedented attack into Israel on October 7, 2023, from the Gaza strip. Over 10 weeks, 1,200 Israelis are reported dead and the death toll of Palestinians has reached nearly 20,000, out of which 8,000 are children, accordi...
BOOM Live
By Hazel Gandhi An old video of a hospital being bombed is viral online with the false claim that it shows Israel's attack on a hospital in Gaza. BOOM found that the claims are false and the video shows an attack on a Syrian hospital in July 2016. The Israel-Hamas conflict erupted on October 7 after the latter launched an unprecedented attack into Israel from Gaza. The conflict has since continued and resulted in the deaths of more than 8,000 Palestinians and 1,400 Israelis in three weeks. An explosion at the Al-Ahli hospital on October 17 further raised humanitarian concerns for Gaza and both...
BOOM Live
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