Syria

ADO – agencies: The Syrian government has detained more than 30,000 people since launching a deadly crackdown on opposition protests in March, a leading Syrian rights activist said Monday, as Washington condemned the Syrian army’s incursions into Lebanon and said that dissidents of the Damascus regime had either been killed …

ADO – agencies: Patients in Syrian state hospitals are subjected to torture and mistreatment as part of the government’s crackdown on dissent, while medics are also being targeted, Amnesty International said, as a leading Syrian rights activist said that Damascus has detained more than 30,000 people since launching March. “The …

ADO –  Press : An Arab League delegation tasked with restarting dialogue between President Bashar Assad’s government and the country’s diverse opposition to end the country’s eight-month crisis arrived in the capital Damascus Wednesday. But despite claims, the talks were “cordial and frank,” prospects for dialogue seemed dim, with the …

By Gina E. Ryder ADO-World.org Oct. 18 2011 A Middle East Church leader has expressed his concern for Christians and the potential adverse consequences that could result from increased pressure by the Syrian government, and especially if violence escalates into a fully blown civil war. The Syriac Catholic Church’s Patriarch …

ADO – Press : The Lebanese ISF police chief released to the media a detailed report that implicates the Syrian Embassy and its ISF personnel in the kidnappings of Syrian opposition figures, days after the Syrian ambassador to Lebanon demanded evidence be produced over the allegations. The report, released by Maj. …

ADO – Agencies : As many as fourteen people were killed on Sunday as Syrian security forces pressed a crackdown on political dissent in separate hubs of protest against President Bashar al-Assad’s regime, activists told Al Arabiya. They said that the highest death toll was reported in the city of …

ADO – Agencies: The United Nations top human rights official Navi Pillay called on Saturday for international action to prevent Syria’s “ruthless repression” of anti-government protesters from driving the country into “full-blown civil war.” Pillay also said in a statement that the death toll in the pro-democracy demonstrations that began …

ADO – Internet:  the Syrian opposition gathered at a conference that took place in Stockholm the 8-10th of October, hosted by the Olof Palme International Center. The conference was called “Unify all efforts to support the Syrian people” and aimed at unifying the opposition’s different fractions and their efforts for …

US expresses its outrage at Security Council for utterly failing to address urgent moral challenge in Syria. By Tim Witcher – UNITED NATIONS ADO-World.org 05-October-2011 Russia and China on Tuesday vetoed a UN Security Council resolution threatening action against Syria’s deadly crackdown on protests, opening up bitter international divisions over …

European nations and United States on collision course with Russia over proposed UN vote condemning Syrian crackdown. ADO-World.org 04-October-2011 Western nations are pressing for the adoption of a UN resolution condemning Syria’s crackdown on anti-government protests despite the threat of a Russian veto. European nations backed by the US were …