Some 96 people were killed across Syria yesterday, according to the Syrian Network for Human Rights, an activist monitoring group.
In July alone, IS expanded dramatically, recruiting some 6,300 new fighters largely in Raqqa, an activist monitoring group said.
Rights activists monitoring the Mali crisis had a mixed reaction to the Security Council resolution.
Opposition activists monitoring flash points around the country, including Homs, Aleppo and its surrounding province and the southern province of Dara'a, reported continued shelling of civilian neighborhoods by government forces on Friday, as large antigovernment demonstrations were held.
Malcolm Smart, Amnesty International's Middle East and North Africa director said, 'The Egyptian authorities must now carry out an urgent independent investigation into why human rights activists monitoring protests in Cairo were targeted in this way, and who gave the orders for it.'.
Father Amado Picardal, a Catholic priest and former spokesperson for the Coalition Against Summary Execution, and perhaps the only person among the community of human rights activists monitoring the Davao death squads who feels safe enough to speak publicly since Duterte's presidential victory, says he hopes that what Duterte has said was little more than campaign rhetoric.
But fear cannot prevent us from moving forward, as long as love still exists in our hearts," they wrote, according to a translation posted on the Facebook page of China Human Rights Lawyers Concern Group, an activist organisation monitoring the crackdown.
Activist groups monitoring the violence in Syria reported that at least 30 people died Tuesday in hot spots around the country, including at least 10 in Homs and nine in the Damascus suburbs.
Dozens more were injured from gas inhalation in the attack, which a local activist and monitoring groups claim was carried out by President Bashar al-Assad's forces.
Bulldozers razed seven buildings in the West Bank village of al-Aqaba, reported the Jordan River Solidarity Group, an activist and monitoring group.
A Vietnamese activist who monitors dissent reckons there is a real chance that "things could get out of control" before then.
