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2013 record year for deadly attacks on aid workers

(AFP)- Attacks on aid workers reached a new peak in 2013, with 155 relief staff killed, and this year is shaping up as equally deadly, according to figures released Tuesday. Afghanistan topped the list of countries where aid workers faced greater risk, with 81 killed in 2013,...

Jihadist Islamic State has 50,000 members in Syria: NGO

The jihadist Islamic State has more than 50,000 fighters in Syria and recruited 6,000 last month alone, the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said on Tuesday. The group, which relies on activists, doctors and lawyers on the ground in Syria for its reporting, said...

Five killed in mortar fire on town near Hama

Damascus, (IANS) At least five people were killed and 18 wounded Tuesday in a renewed mortar shelling against a central Syrian town, state media reported. The victims were killed and injured when the rebels fired mortar shells against Qamhaneh town in the northern countryside...