Nadim Houry News
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Syria’s opposition fighters must do more to respect the laws of war after an Internet video appeared to show a rebel leader mutilating and biting into the heart and liver of a dead enemy soldier, Human Rights Watch said.
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Hezbollah has a “national and moral” duty to defend Lebanese residents from Syrian rebels following the Beirut government’s failure to protect border villages, one of its leaders said.
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President Bashar al-Assad granted amnesty to some people convicted of certain crimes, the official Syrian Arab News Agency reported.
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Area SpA, the Italian company that had been building an Internet surveillance system in Syria, is exiting the project, according to the newspaper la Repubblica, which cited a lawyer for the firm.
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Syrian demonstrators holding a candlelight vigil for anti-government protesters in Egypt were attacked by unidentified men suspected of belonging to Syria’s security services, New-York-based Human Rights Watch said.
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Area SpA, the Italian company building a Syrian surveillance system, is weighing options that may include exiting the deal, according to Chief Executive Officer Andrea Formenti.
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Lebanese lawmakers approved today a bill that for the first time grants Palestinian refugees in the country the right to work and access to social security benefits.
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Syrian rebels have tortured detainees and committed extra-judicial or summary executions in Aleppo, Latakia and Idlib that may amount to war crimes, Human Rights Watch said.
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Syrian authorities will release youths detained in unrest last week and vowed to protect civilians during any protests, the state Syrian Arab News Agency reported.
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