Here you can see @smd1900 deny civilians starved by his cult leader #Assad & the terrorist organization #Hezbollah.
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Guardian news ✔ @guardiannews
Murder in Istanbul: Kremlin's hand suspected in shooting of Chechen
http://d.gu.com/DDrSNM
I went to Istanbul to look into a murder that has it all: Chechen fighters, al-Nusra, Syria, Ukraine, Russian agents http://www.theguardian.com/world/201...P=share_btn_tw …
https://www.yahoo.com/news/pakistan-...144318541.html
Pakistan says it will respond to any threat to Saudi Arabia
ISLAMABAD (AP) — Any threat to Saudi Arabia's territorial integrity will evoke a strong response from Islamabad, Pakistani army chief Gen. Raheel Sharif said Sunday.
Sharif made the remarks in a statement after Saudi Deputy Crown Prince and Defense Minister Mohammed bin Salman met with him in the garrison city of Rawalpindi, adjacent to the capital.
Salman earlier arrived in Islamabad, making him the second top Saudi official to visit Pakistan in a week amid growing tension with Iran over Shiite cleric Nimr al-Nimr's recent execution.
Saudi Foreign Minister Adel al-Jubeir visited Pakistan a couple of days ago.
The visits came after Saudi Arabia and several of its allies announced the severing or downgrading of diplomatic relations with Shiite powerhouse Iran. Protesters in Tehran stormed the Saudi embassy and a Saudi consulate elsewhere in the country after Saudi Arabia executed al-Nimr, a prominent Shiite cleric and opposition leader earlier this month.
Pakistan, a predominantly Sunni state, also has a large Shiite population. Pakistan has had a history of sectarian violence where Sunni and Shiite militants have reportedly been funded and supported by Gulf states for their proxy wars.
The deputy crown prince later called on Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif.
The people of Pakistan would always stand with the people of Saudi Arabia, said Sharif in a statement after the meeting. Pakistan has previously agreed to become part of a Saudi-led counter-terrorism alliance. Sharif welcomed the initiative and informed the prince about Pakistan's support for efforts to oppose terrorism and extremism. It was agreed that the two countries would cooperate in developing an effective counter narrative to defeat the extremist mindset, said the statement. It said Pakistan also expressed its readiness to offer its offices to brotherly Muslim countries for resolution of their differences through peaceful dialogue and reconciliation.
Pakistan hold its defense ties with Saudi Arabia in highest esteem, said Sharif, the army chief. He said Pakistan attached great importance to the security of Saudi Arabia and other Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries.
Nusra has released @HadiAlabdallah and @RaedFares4.
CrowBat---anything to this comment...??
If Turkey is helping Azaz/Mare rebels to break through against IS, we could end up with rebels, YPG/SDF and regime all converging at Al Bab
Doctors w/o Borders ✔ @MSF_USA
#Madaya medics have eaten nothing for a week. Tired, weak, growing lines of sick patients – all residents desperate
http://bit.ly/1ZSagZ0
MSF UK Press Office @MSF_Press
Madaya update: #MSF-supported medics in #Madaya besieged town have 10 critical starvation patients needing urgent hospitalisation
Hezbollah has "feelings"....come on get real....
Hezbollah feels reputation damaged by international media and NGOs like @MSF and posts "counter evidence". https://twitter.com/mmagreen/status/686230977442521088 …
Doctors w/o Borders ✔ @MSF_USA
UPDATE: #MSF-supported medics in Madaya confirm 5 starvation deaths in besieged town today; One 9-yr-old boy & four over 45-yrs men
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Humor........
BREAKING: #Russia's Su-27 accidentally crosses into #Turkey's airspace, co-pilot ejects just in case
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Two articles on media propagandists, one working in the @UN. Both support killing civilians in defense of #Assad. https://twitter.com/Mario_Greenly/st...97757082599424 …
http://www.reuters.com/article/2016/...0UO0AJ20160110
Sun Jan 10, 2016 1:39pm EST
Syrian rebel group casts new doubt on peace process, wants missiles
BEIRUT
A large Syrian rebel group has said the best way to push Damascus to a political settlement of the country's civil war was to give insurgents anti-aircraft missiles and has pledged to control the arms if provided.
Islam Army (Jaysh al-Islam), echoing opposition concerns over a United Nations-led drive to launch peace talks in Geneva on Jan. 25, also said it was unacceptable to talk about a political solution to the war while people died of hunger and bombardment.
The opposition to President Bashar al-Assad wants goodwill measures including a ceasefire, a detainee release and the end of blockades on besieged areas before starting negotiations.
U.N. envoy Staffan de Mistura is shuttling around the region to prepare for the talks, part of a plan endorsed by the Security Council last month to end the five-year-war that has killed 250,000 people and created millions of refugees.
Islam Army, part of a newly formed council to oversee the negotiations on the opposition side, said the "best way to force the regime to accept the (political) solution and stick by it" was to allow states that back the opposition to supply rebels with anti-aircraft missiles.
The statement, sent by the group's spokesman overnight, said it would guarantee the missiles would not reach groups that would use them "illegally".
Foreign governments including the United States and Saudi Arabia have provided rebels with military support, but have resisted demands for missiles for fear they would end up with hardline jihadist groups such as Islamic State.
The Syrian government says Islam Army is a terrorist group, like all the groups that fighting to topple Assad, who has received crucial support from Russia and Iran. Both states have sent forces to help him fight the insurgency.
The Syrian government told de Mistura on Saturday it was ready to take part in Geneva talks but stressed the need to see the names of the Syrian opposition figures who will take part.
Pointing to another potential complication, Foreign Minister Walid al-Moualem also stressed the need for the government to obtain a list of groups that would be classified as terrorists as part of the peace process.
Islam Army said the success of the political process "depended on the seriousness of the international community in putting pressure on the criminal regime to halt the killing".
Opposition officials have already cast doubt on whether the talks will go ahead on schedule, citing the need to see the goodwill measures from the government side.
Separately, the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the death toll from Russian aerial strikes on a rebel-held town in northern western Syria on Saturday climbed to 81 people with at least 52 civilians among the dead.
The dead included 23 fighters from Nusra and 6 Islamist fighters, in the latest update by the independent monitor on casualties.
The raids hit court house and prison run by al Qaeda’s offshoot Nusra Front and residential areas in the town of Maarat al-Numan, a major urban center in Idlib province whose towns have been the targets of intense Russian bombing in the last two months.
Rescue workers and rights groups say Russia's bombing in Syria has killed scores of civilians at busy market places and in residential areas. Russia denies this.
Jets also believed to be Russian pounded Talbisa and Rastan towns in Homs province and the southern town of Sheikh Maskin, part of Moscow's major military intervention to help the Syrian army gain ground lost to rebels, the monitor and activists said.
It's certainly so that there is a sort of 'race' for al-Bab and Manbij going on:Originally Posted by OUTLAW 09
- Turkey-supported FSyA insurgents are advancing along the border in the north;
- '2nd Division' of the regime (that is: 'Tiger Force' and 'Katibat Ba'ath' of the Ba'ath Party Militia/Phalanga) is advancing from Kweres AB in the south;
- SDF's US-supported/vetted FSyA elements are advancing from Teshreen Dam towards Manbij from south-east.
However, this morning the Hezbollah, IRGC, SSNP and NDF have launched an all-out attack on Salma in NE Lattakia, while the IRGC and 4th Division have launched an all-out attack west of Aleppo (city). Both of these are likely to draw lots of insurgent attention away from northern Aleppo.
So, I would say that this might become something like a 'crucial moment' in this war: either insurgents still have reserves - and supplies - they can re-deploy to reinforce frontlines in NE Lattakia and western Aleppo, and do so while continuing advance in northern Aleppo, or they are not only going to lose the race to al-Bab, but also give the regime a major PR coup.
Considering reports from southern Syria, where 24 FSyA groups are on the best way to beat the IRGC+PLA assault on Sheikh Mishkin despite another US ban on delivery of ammo and supplies from Jordan... sigh... well, guess it's not much better in regards of what they're getting from Turkey meanwhile and thus it's hard to place any bets on them any more.
Once again: 'congratulations Oblabla'...
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