At least 90 people, including many children, have been killed in Syria’s restive Homs province, opposition activists say, calling it a “massacre”.

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VIDEO: Syria child massacre confirmed

Syrian opposition organizations on Saturday accused government forces of carrying out a massacre in a village near Homs, leaving some 100 people dead, many of them children.

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Syrian Activists Claim Death Toll in Village Soars

At least 88 people, including many children, are killed in a town in Syria’s restive province of Homs, opposition activists say, calling it a “massacre”.

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‘Dozens die’ in Syria town attack

Survivors of Anders Behring Breivik’s shootings in Norway relive the horrors of last year’s massacre as they testify at his trial in Oslo.

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Breivik survivors relive horrors

The court in the trial of Anders Behring Breivik begins hearing coroners’ reports for the 69 people killed in a youth camp massacre on Norway’s Utoeya Island.

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Breivik: Island killings detailed

The court in the trial of Anders Behring Breivik begins hearing coroners’ reports for the 69 people killed in a youth camp massacre on Norway’s Utoeya Island.

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Breivik: Island killings detailed

On his last day of testimony, Anders Behring Breivik described his shooting spree and told victims’ families that he lost “everything” as a result of the massacre.

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Anders Behring Breivik Says He Shared in Loss

Even now, he won’t go back inside. Kevin Sterne hasn’t reentered Norris Hall since four police officers rushed his limp body out of the blood-soaked building in the chaos of April 16, 2007 — a horrifying moment captured in a photograph that became a defining image of the Virginia Tech tragedy. Read full article > >

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A massacre’s survivors: Recovery and resilience at Va. Tech

A witness tells the Kevin ‘Gerbil’ Carroll murder trial she thought she was caught up in “another Dunblane” massacre.

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Murder witness in ‘Dunblane fear’

KABUL — The U.S. military on Friday charged Army Staff Sgt. Robert Bales with murdering 17 Afghans during an village massacre this month but did not shed light on a possible motive for the worst U.S. atrocity of the decade-long war. Read full article > >

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Army Sgt. Robert Bales charged with murdering 17 Afghans

Ron Barber will run for the seat vacated by former Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-Ariz.) this fall, not just in the upcoming special election, he told reporters Monday. Barber was a longtime aide to the ex-congresswoman, and he was shot in the Tucson massacre that killed six people and wounded 13. Giffords, who was shot in the head, resigned in January to focus on her own recovery. Read full article > >

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Ron Barber to run for full House term

KABUL — Afghan President Hamid Karzai on Friday accused the United States of stonewalling an investigation into the killings of 16 Afghan civilians and suggested that more than one soldier may have been involved in the massacre. Read full article > >

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Karzai accuses U.S. of blocking investigation into shooting rampage

PRESIDENT OBAMA spoke up forcefully on Tuesday about the massacre of Afghan civilians, allegedly by a U.S. soldier. He said that the United States “takes this as seriously as if it was our own citizens and our own children who were murdered” and promised to “spare no effort in conducting a full investigation.” Those were the right words. Following through with his commitment to “make sure that anybody who was involved is held fully accountable with the full force of the law” could help to repair damage with Afghans who are understandably outraged by the killings . Read full article > >

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Editorial Board: Obama’s troubled handling of Afghanistan

It was clear before Sunday’s horrific massacre of civilians that it’s past time for the U.S. mission in Afghanistan to end. Now the only question should be how quickly we can get our troops onto transport planes to fly them home. Read full article > >

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Bring home the troops now from Afghanistan

The police officials were among 13 who stood trial for a prison massacre that occurred a week after the 2010 earthquake.

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8 Haitian Policemen Convicted in 2010 Prison Killings