Ed Cropley

Lonmin strikers march as South Africa mine unrest spreads

August 22, 2019 at 10:40 a.m.

MARIKANA, South Africa (Reuters) - Around 10,000 striking South African platinum miners marched from one Lonmin mine shaft to another on Monday, threatening to kill strike breakers, as another illegal...

South Africa police fire teargas as mine unrest spreads

August 23, 2021 at 6:30 p.m.

JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South African police fired teargas and rubber bullets to disperse striking miners at a gold mine near Johannesburg on Monday, the latest outbreak in a wave of...

South Africa police fire teargas as mine unrest spreads

August 22, 2019 at 10:33 a.m.

JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South African police fired teargas and rubber bullets to disperse striking miners at a gold mine near Johannesburg on Monday, the latest outbreak in a wave of...

Syria accused of war crimes, rebels kill 15

August 23, 2021 at 10:31 a.m.

BEIRUT (Reuters) - Syrian rebels killed 15 members of the security forces in an ambush on Wednesday, a monitoring group said, and a human rights organization accused Damascus of war...

Syria accused of war crimes, rebels kill 15

December 24, 2018 at 7:57 a.m.

BEIRUT (Reuters) - Syrian rebels killed 15 members of the security forces in an ambush on Wednesday, a monitoring group said, and a human rights organization accused Damascus of war...

The ship Letfallah II docks at the naval base at the port of Beirut, after it was diverted from a port. Lebanese authorities have found weapons on board the ship intercepted in the Mediterranean which may have been trying to supply Syrian rebels, security sources said on Saturday.

Gunmen hit Syrian army from sea, Moscow slams rebels

November 3, 2021 at 8:25 p.m.

BEIRUT (Reuters) - Gunmen in inflatable dinghies killed several security officials in an attack on a military unit on Syria's Mediterranean coast, state media said on Saturday, the first seaborne...

Gunmen hit Syrian army from sea, Moscow slams rebels

December 24, 2018 at 4:08 p.m.

BEIRUT (Reuters) - Gunmen in inflatable dinghies killed several security officials in an attack on a military unit on Syria's Mediterranean coast, state media said on Saturday, the first seaborne...

Syrians and local residents burn a banner bearing pictures of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (L-R) during a protest to express solidarity with Syria's anti-government protesters in Tripoli.

Nine dead in suicide bomb near Damascus mosque

November 3, 2021 at 8:24 p.m.

BEIRUT (Reuters) - A suicide bomber killed nine people including security officers at a Damascus mosque on Friday, Syria's interior ministry said, in another blow to a fraying U.N.-brokered truce...

Nine dead in suicide bomb near Damascus mosque

December 24, 2018 at 4:07 p.m.

BEIRUT (Reuters) - A suicide bomber killed nine people including security officers at a Damascus mosque on Friday, Syria's interior ministry said, in another blow to a fraying U.N.-brokered truce...

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