At 33, conflicts in the world last year increased by one compared to 2012. This is reported by peace researchers at Uppsala University's Conflict Data Program. The number has remained stable over the past decade. 2012 saw ...
Social Sciences
Jun 16, 2014
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Citizen reporters are increasingly getting stories out of remote areas of Syria, which are difficult for traditional media to reach during the conflict, according to data collated for Index on Censorship magazine.
Internet
Jun 16, 2014
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The UN's food aid agency warned on Tuesday that Syria was facing a drought that could put millions of people's lives at risk, compounding the impact of years of war.
Environment
Apr 8, 2014
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How can we explain the level of savagery that has been seen in Syria? And how on earth do the negotiators in Geneva hope to bridge an abyss of cruelty and suffering that has seen more than 100,000 people killed and almost ...
Social Sciences
Jan 27, 2014
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Syria no longer has the capacity to produce new chemical weapons en masse, but arms control experts caution that what remains is the more difficult job of destroying the existing stockpile in the midst of the country's brutal ...
Other
Nov 20, 2013
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(AP)—Syrian state television claims that a pro-government group has hacked into two social messaging networks and seized records of local users.
Internet
Jul 21, 2013
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Syria was cut off from the Internet on Tuesday, according to US tech firms monitoring Web traffic and the State Department.
Internet
May 7, 2013
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The Twitter account of AFP's photo service, @AFPphoto, was hacked on Tuesday at 16:45 GMT. The images posted until the account was suspended more than an hour later did not come from the agency, AFP's management said in a ...
Internet
Feb 26, 2013
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(AP) — As violence began racing through Syria last year, two European contractors were putting the finishing touches on an encrypted radio system that Syrian officials intended for their security forces, according to ...
Other
Jul 16, 2012
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Hundreds of amateur videos captured by news activists, citizen journalists and foreign correspondents in Homs, and distributed to news organizations and video-sharing websites around the world, have prompted some to dub the ...
Social Sciences
Mar 14, 2012
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