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    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
    pic.twitter.com/KCHBw6GIEW


    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

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    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.

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    EastGhouta: Unconfirmed Reports emerging claiming SAA have taken FULL CONTROL of Bilaliyah
    http://redd.it/40cs08

    Faylaq al-Sham commander: goals in northern Syria are al-Bab and Manbij
    http://redd.it/40conf

    UNHCR tents for Syria refugees show up in Fars News pics showing Iran-backed forces "liberation" of south A...
    http://redd.it/40co11

    Rebels captured 2 ISIS/IS members during clashes in E.Qalamoun region, Damascus province.
    http://redd.it/40brtd

    Remnants of a drone shot down by ur al-Din Zanki movement - بقايا طائرة الاستطلاع الت...
    http://redd.it/40banj

    Hezbollah, Syrian Army amass near the town of Al-Zorba in southern Aleppo [Al-Madsar News]
    http://redd.it/409nvb

    Battle of #Salma officially started. #SAA rocket/artillery pounding the terrorist stronghold
    http://redd.it/40aycl

    Opp sources say that SAA has besieged Salma and will soon storm it.
    http://redd.it/40b2wz

    Al-Masdar:Syrian Army storms the mountains surrounding the strategic town of Salma
    http://redd.it/40b86s
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    Mark Galeotti @MarkGaleotti

    If as is likely Moscow behind hit, not 1st time:
    https://inmoscowsshadows.wordpress.c...k-in-istanbul/ … + http://blogs.blouinnews.com/blouinbe...ked-to-moscow/https://twitter.com/shaunwalker7/sta...20717470400512

    Mark Galeotti @MarkGaleotti
    Kremlin hand suspected in shooting of Chechen in Istanbul
    @shaunwalker7 reports on an another presumed #Russia hit
    http://gu.com/p/4eqgf/stw

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    http://www.thenational.ae/opinion/co...ssads-war#full

    Iran won’t surrender militias that conduct Assad’s war

    Hassan Hassan

    January 10, 2016 Updated: January 10, 2016 05:27 PM

    Not long before the Riyadh-Tehran diplomatic row that followed the execution of Saudi Shia cleric Nimr Al Nimr, a showdown between the two countries unfolded in New York. While it is difficult to draw a direct correlation between the two events, the incident can help us understand the depth of the continuing crisis.

    On December 18, heated debate ensued between representatives of the two countries at a meeting in New York over the listing of armed groups operating in Syria for possible determination as terrorist organisations. The list, which Jordan was asked to develop, would name extremist groups that must be defeated as part of the UN-sponsored political process for Syria.

    A month earlier in Vienna, Saudi Arabia had insisted on including in the list foreign Shia militias fighting on the side of president Bashar Al Assad. Riyadh argued that all foreign fighters must leave Syria, regardless of which side they supported. In New York, Iran, joined by Russia, strongly objected to the demand and the standoff caused a deeper rift between the two countries.

    For now, the designation of terror groups in Syria has been referred to a committee comprising several European and regional countries. They first determined indicators and criteria of what constitutes a terrorist organisation, then named armed groups currently fighting in Syria. There is a preliminary list of more than 160 Sunni and Shia organisations.

    Iran categorically rejects including any Shia groups in the list. For Tehran, the fate of the Assad regime it supports is critically tied to the presence of those Shia militias. It is a fact that adds to the many issues that compound the conflict in Syria – issues that the international community would seemingly rather sweep under the carpet instead of deal with head on.

    The Syrian regime controls about 30 per cent of the country, though it probably controls over 50 per cent of the population. According to the defence think tank IHS Jane’s, the regime lost 16 per cent of its territory over the past year. These figures are particularly damning if one considers that foreign Shia militias were on the front line of key battles against the rebels – in the Qalamoun region, Aleppo and central and western Syria – over this period.

    The growing role of these militias last year came as the Syrian army showed signs of internal weakening, something that Mr Al Assad has admitted. During his most recent speech, almost exactly a month before the Russian intervention in September, the president said that the army lacked “manpower”. Also last year, paramilitary fighters with the National Defence Forces (NDF) began to focus on their local areas rather than deploy in the front lines elsewhere – a task that foreign fighters took on.

    Youssef Sadaki, a Syrian researcher who closely focuses on Shia militias, says those foreign fighters acted as the main strikers in battles outside the regime’s heartlands, while the NDF fighters defended their areas or secured and held newly-captured areas.

    According to Mr Sadaki, foreign militias lead the regime’s battles in southern Aleppo, and the front lines between Idlib, Aleppo, Latakia, Homs and Hama. Hizbollah has spearheaded key battles in southern Syria near the Lebanese borders, while other militias guard the front lines in Damascus and fought in Deraa.

    Phillip Smyth, a close observer of Shia militancy, says that most of the regime’s offensives over the past two years were led by foreign forces, including in areas where the regime’s elite units operate, such as in Damascus.

    “When we look at Aleppo, the entire offensive there was spearheaded and planned by the Iranians, it was their Shia militia proxy forces which showcased the entire campaign,” said Mr Smyth, from the University of Maryland. “It’s quite clear that they are a – if not the main – fighting force in many areas.”

    Last month on these pages, I highlighted that while Iran and Russia might in theory be willing to accept the removal of Mr Al Assad, there are practical reasons why they would not do that, because consequences are unpredictable and the result is not guaranteed.

    For the rebels, no peace is possible while Mr Al Assad is in power, so his future complicates the peace talks. So does the presence of Shia militias in Syria.

    Reliance on these foreign forces means that their departure will have to follow the consolidation of the government’s military control over the country. They operate in critical areas and the regime’s army or NDF do not appear to be prepared to take their place.

    The presence of Shia militias is important for the regime and for its backer in Tehran. Many of these militias are also key Iranian proxies in Iraq, with recent reports suggesting that Iran has diverted them to Syria to assist in the wake of the Russian intervention in Syria. So the issue has also a regional dimension that cannot be ignored.

    Iran finds itself in a situation where it seeks to save the regime in Syria through the help of religious zealots, while pushing for the designation as terrorists of Sunni extremists fighting on the side of the opposition.

    In western capitals, strangely, that seems to be a reasonable position. For the opposition and regional backers such as Saudi Arabia, that is double dealing that further complicates the already-complex conflict in Syria.

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    Starving Syrians in Madaya are denied aid amid political jockeying.
    http://nyti.ms/1Zfl0P7

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    Hell on earth in #Douma again ...
    Giant "#Russian" bombs hit the city.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s5-tzjKoOyk
    pic.twitter.com/UazGqC79YB

    No words to describe this ...
    #Douma today.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XAEPpJ8j2cE
    pic.twitter.com/HJlyV6D5R3

    Death toll in Russian raids on Syria's Idlib nears 100
    http://dld.bz/egXtu
    pic.twitter.com/y9Cj89GjnC
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    Why does Obama worry about "messaging" in his Syrian strategy WHEN he absolutely does nothing that would indicate that he is a leader......

    ONLY two comments from his DoS and Kerry about the deliberate Putin air strikes against only civilians and not a single IS fighter....AND absolutely not a single comment on the deliberate use of starvation as a tactical weapon which is a clear violation of international humanitarian law.

    The US dropped food supplies to Kurds BUT the "messaging" to the average Syrian civilian is "you are not worth the effort"...........

    Starving Syrians in Madaya are denied aid amid political jockeying. http://nyti.ms/1Zfl0P7

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    Hell on earth in #Douma again ...
    Giant "#Russian" bombs hit the city.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s5-tzjKoOyk
    pic.twitter.com/UazGqC79YB

    No words to describe this ...
    #Douma today.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XAEPpJ8j2cE
    pic.twitter.com/HJlyV6D5R3

    Death toll in Russian raids on Syria's Idlib nears 100
    http://dld.bz/egXtu
    pic.twitter.com/y9Cj89GjnC

    BTW--an accidental Twitter comment from a proAssad supporter indicated the "average accuracy" of the Russian dumb bomb to be between 1-2km from actual target point.

    4 KM is not a problem as regime pilots are actually aiming with iPads at the villages/cities https://twitter.com/mario_greenly/st...24056589979648

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    Quote Originally Posted by OUTLAW 09 View Post
    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
    It's certainly so that there is a sort of 'race' for al-Bab and Manbij going on:

    - 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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    Quote Originally Posted by OUTLAW 09 View Post
    ...BTW--an accidental Twitter comment from a proAssad supporter indicated the "average accuracy" of the Russian dumb bomb to be between 1-2km from actual target point.

    4 KM is not a problem as regime pilots are actually aiming with iPads at the villages/cities https://twitter.com/mario_greenly/st...24056589979648
    This is something I'm 'telling' whoever is ready to 'listen' since nearly three months - and for which I'm getting attacked in all imaginable ways in return, too: fact is not only that the VKS is almost exclusively deploying 'dumb' bombs, but foremost that its aircraft lack the precision, and are flying much too high but to hit anything at all (especially in a country that is as windy as Syria is).

    We all - and I mean: all serious observers of this and similar ongoing wars - are used to nearly 20 years of continuous warfare by Western militaries. Western warfare envisages tight integration between intel and combat operations with the aim of achieving greatest possible accuracy. It's not working 100%; not even 80%; so much is clear and we need not making ourselves any illusions. But, it's still really 'amazingly precise on average', especially when compared to earlier times (indeed, one can see significant improvement already in comparison to Bosnia of 1995, or Serbia/Kosovo of 1999).

    Because of this we all expect a similar performance from Russians too. Actually, Russians are neither capable nor interested in delivering a comparable performance. From Moscow's POV, it's PRBS which is all that matters, and not some amazing precision or else. Why 'waste billions of bucks' when all that matters is number of sorties flown and number of bombs dropped one can claim in the public?

    In turn, these numbers enable Keystone Cops in Moscow to claim 'hundreds of terrorists killed', every single day. The MSM is insta-buying this, mass of the public too, and nobody cares afterwards, no matter how much both of them - Keystone Cops and the MSM - have been proved as wrong.

    While actually, 'even' Su-34s and Su-30SMs are really spraying and praying. This is more than logical, then one simply can't hit anything at all if dropping dumb bombs from 2,000m + altitude in a country as windy as Syria is.

    As if eager to confirm this, Elijah J Mangier, one of biggest regime-fans online, indicated that the 'average accuracy' of Russian dumb bombs is about 1,000-2,000 metres from the actual target point; that of Assadist barrel-bomb attacks out to 4,000 metres. Curiously, he deleted that Tweet ever since, but this was saved by some others, for example here.

    Final irony: wherever I tried to explain that 90% of Russian sorties are targeting civilians in insurgent-held territories and about 5% are targeting the FSyA on several other 'military' forums, I've got banned within seconds - irrespectivelly of my assessment being based on Russian and allied releases, and well-supported. Now the AJE report here is citing the SNC reports that say,
    ..."Nearly 94 percent of the 12,000 sorties the Russian air force has so far flown in Syria targeted civilians and the Free Syrian Army."
    ...
    ...which means: their statistics is confirming mine...

    Bottom line: it's not as if 'Moscow couldn't care less when bombing civilians'. It's a part of their strategy.

    However, actual fact is that they are missing even these and - to make things 'even better' - at least something like 50% of their bombs are failing to detonate.

    Therefore, it's as absurd as true: Syrians can consider themselves happy Russian aiming is as piss-poor, otherwise there would be dozens of thousands of casualties already...

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    ...and if anybody is curious to read the following (and feel free to call it 'another rant'), here a reason more to think (and very hard at it!) about what are Russians actually doing in Syria...

    Elijah J Mangier, one of two major English-language mouthpieces of Assadist regime that is online, attempted to explain why is Assad (and Putler too) so insistent on bombing civilians and FSyA - instead of fighting the Daesh (which is what all the West not only expects, but also thinks they are doing): For Assad defeating al-Qaeda and its allies, rather than ISIS, is a top priority: ISIS is a “marionette”

    The piece is actually typical PRBS from Assadists. However, one can't simply discard it as such and ignore it. Instead, some careful 'reading between the lines' reveals plenty of details. Just concentrate on crucial statements:
    ...Nonetheless, the Syrian Army’ command, and now its allies, has avoided clashing with ISIS in many occasions, when unnecessary, on several fronts. In few words, ISIS is said to be “much easier and less urgent to defeat than al-Qaeda in Syria”.
    Means: yes stupids, we're NOT fighting Daesh.

    ...
    The answer to such a strategy comes from one of the highest decision maker of the joint operations room in Damascus that includes Russia, Syria, Iran and Hezbollah Lebanon (3+1 which is different from the one in Baghdad, called 4+1 as it includes Iraq).
    ...
    Moreover, ISIS does not exist in areas considered vital and rich like Idlib, Homs and the suburbs where the population is against the regime and supports the rebels.
    ...
    From our side, we want to establish a demarcation line with ISIS and will refrain from carrying out large military operations against the group to spare our forces (the military engagement) for other more strategic fronts.
    ...
    There follows plenty of outright idiotic babbling, like 'ISIS has no regional or international political horizont... no political cover up or umbrella... is no longer directly financed by any country or organization...', like 'al-Qaida in Syria' being in control of Ahrar ash-Sham, 'all the Jihadists' etc., being used by USA and allies etc. Of course, FSyA is not mentioned with a single word - as if nearly 100,000 of its combatants neither exist nor matter.

    What is this all important, you might wonder?

    Well, pay attention:
    - Not only is this an outright - and then 'official' & 'public' - admission that Keystone Cops in Moscow are lying all the time about 'bombing Daesh' (because Elijah is, right next to al-Masdar, something like 'spokesperson' of that '3+1' HQ in Damascus). It's an admission that, 'the Daesh did not manage to integrate itself among the population in Syria' - which, dear quasi-anti-Imperialists, Neo-Nazis etc. in the West, means that it is idiotic to say 'Syrians are all terrorists'.

    - It also means that Assaidsts and Russians know they are NOT bombing Daesh, and are intentionally bombing insurgent-held area because insurgents ARE integrated among the population.

    - Less important, but still a matter of fact, it means that Assadists and Russians are now openly lying about attacking 'al-Qaida in Syria': the JAN was barely hit so far. What they are attacking are primarily civilians in areas controlled by the FSyA, IF and Ahrar.

    Another important fact: the source in question further babbles (citate), "Officially, Russia has declared al-Qaeda, Ahrar al-sham and all the salafist jihadists as terrorists, rejecting any presence of these groups at the negotiating table. This is exactly what Mr Assad declared throughout the years of war."

    This is another lie, then Assad refused to talk with anybody from the FSyA, first and foremost. He's not going to change this now, as can be seen from Putler's insistence on declaring the FSyA, IF, and AAS for 'terrorists'.

    Finally, what levels of absurdity such standpoints represent can at best be read in closing statements of that piece:
    ...ISIS is exhausting Iran’s finance that is injected to support Syria with oil and cash to pay salaries and keep the various institutions standing and functioning. For the second time since the Iranian revolution in 1979, Iran is sending troops abroad to fight in thousands and not only a limited number of tens or hundreds of advisors.
    So, if it is ISIS that is 'exhausting' Iran...which is the party that is paying practically everything that's left of the Assadist regime: then why to hell don't they fight the ISIS, but explain that it's 'no priority'?!?

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    AND this is now another in the unceasing line of Obama successes in Syrian...BUT WAIT the DoS did bring up only twice the excessive killing of civilians by the Russian and Assad AF directly with Putin...AND the shinning success was what again....ZERO....

    Toll of barrel bombs dropped by the Syrian Regime air-force in 2015
    According to @snhr , @KreaseChan @TheSyriaCmpgn
    pic.twitter.com/7YTVBs2Y9P

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    UNICEF MENA @UNICEFmena

    Workers at @UNICEF warehouse near #Damascus prepare nutrition&medical supplies for delivery 2 besieged area #Madaya

    Aid convoys expected to leave today for Madaya where 5 people died of starvation yesterday
    http://ow.ly/WSOax
    pic.twitter.com/bgZqcwTALQ

    A Russian airstrike has hit a school in Syria
    http://ind.pn/1TP6g8c
    pic.twitter.com/X6WJBQ3ktc

    One of the schools #Putin thugs targeted and destroyed in #Aleppo countryside.
    https://youtu.be/AXFue5ruD1M
    pic.twitter.com/lSkhCLqCtu

    Putin pilots continue targeting schools and civil institutes across #Aleppo countryside - @5595Sad
    pic.twitter.com/OXzPUuluoA

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    BREAKING
    #WFP AID Trucks arrived in the Gates of #Madaya, but didn't enter so far inside the town
    #Syria JAN 11


    Surrounded by Hezbollah and the SAA and the IRC wants to see if it is safe...come on...??

    Stupid #RedCross delegation in #Madaya,"inspecting" to see if is"safe" BEFORE receive @WFP AID TRUCKS
    #Syria JAN11
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    Quote Originally Posted by OUTLAW 09 View Post
    UNICEF MENA @UNICEFmena

    Workers at @UNICEF warehouse near #Damascus prepare nutrition&medical supplies for delivery 2 besieged area #Madaya

    Aid convoys expected to leave today for Madaya where 5 people died of starvation yesterday
    http://ow.ly/WSOax
    pic.twitter.com/bgZqcwTALQ

    A Russian airstrike has hit a school in Syria
    http://ind.pn/1TP6g8c
    pic.twitter.com/X6WJBQ3ktc

    One of the schools #Putin thugs targeted and destroyed in #Aleppo countryside.
    https://youtu.be/AXFue5ruD1M
    pic.twitter.com/lSkhCLqCtu

    Putin pilots continue targeting schools and civil institutes across #Aleppo countryside - @5595Sad
    pic.twitter.com/OXzPUuluoA
    Russia's warplanes target schools area in the town of #Anjarah in rural #Aleppo #Syria leaving 35 dead

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    Little girl wounded on her head w/ Shrapnel from #SAA Mortars shelling on #Saqba @SyriaCivilDef
    #Syria JAN11

    SAA terrorists shelling mortars on #Saqba
    #Damascus cs #Syria JAN 11

    Unexploded "rusted" #SAA missile fell on #Harasta
    E #Ghouta #Damascus cs #Syria JAN 11

    SAA Helicopters dropping barrel bombs on #Teir_Maela
    #Homs #Syria JAN 11
    (Look the "ring" that form b4 explosion)

    FSA @forsanalhaq1 (North Div) try to target #Russia warplanes in the sky of #Maarat_al_Nouman
    #Idlib #Syria JAN 11

    Moment #Russia warplanes carried out airstrikes on #Sheikh_Meskin
    #Daraa #Syria JAN 11
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eDtw-Rm1XAU

    SCD HERO Mohammed Omar, lost his life, victim of #Russia airstrikes on #Maarat_Alortiq
    #Aleppo cs #Syria JAN 11

    And the #Russia CLUSTER BOMBS don't stop..
    Our HEROES #SCD collecting Cluster Bombs in Kafr_Zeta
    #Hama #Syria JAN 11

    Aftermath #Russia airstrikes on civilians houses of #Howr neighborhood
    #ALeppo cs #SYria JAN 11

    17children,1 teacher killed by #Russia in #Anjarah
    #Syria JAN11
    Educational Complex

    https://goo.gl/nuw9i4

    BREAKING
    @SyriaCivilDef ENTIRE FAMILY UNDER RUBBLE AFTERMATH #RUSSIA AIRSTRIKES ON #ANJARAH
    #ALEPPO CS #SYRIA JAN11



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    Finally !
    @SYRedCrescent convoy with aid arrived in #Madaya minutes ago.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bsuN0wG_2QM

    WFP Europe @WFP_Europe
    Helping #Syrians in & outside of the country is vital to avoiding a lost generation - thanks to donors such as #EU
    pic.twitter.com/pbaAI5De3B

    Since @MuradoRT stopped covering #Madaya after the fake #Hezbollah aid I'll pick up slack: "Crowds of hungry kids.."
    pic.twitter.com/QbbJx9bMgF

    UNHCRNews ‏@RefugeesMedia ·
    ... UNHCR Rep: 'to see so many hungry people. Its cold and raining but there is excitement because we are here with some food and blankets.'
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    Quote Originally Posted by OUTLAW 09 View Post
    Russia's warplanes target schools area in the town of #Anjarah in rural #Aleppo #Syria leaving 35 dead
    Spoke to another source in Turkey who told me the jet that bombed the #Anjarah schools today came straight from the #RuAF base in Latakia.

    Don't ask me how they know but I guess you can imagine.

    #Anjarah precision bomb came through the roof,floor wall&went straight into the class room.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZWnTmyHCTpE

    GRAPHIC #footage
    The #AnjarahSchoolMassacre:
    Children tell what happened to their schools.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k4P240oTILs

    Anjarah is possibly the best location to kill as many pupils as possible with a few bombs.
    All 3 schools close-by.
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    Footage
    Su-24 in action over eastern #Daraa province today.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_a6kpW6I8l4
    Can't ID the air force.

    SheikhMaskin today: #Assad would be lost without #Putin's SU-34!! ...
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eDtw-Rm1XAU

    Also in #KafrHamra, north of #Aleppo, Russian pilots "did their job", hitting residences.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=643HEP1mryg

    Possible use of incendiary weapons by regime in Hamouriya, rural #Damascus earlier today
    https://www.facebook.com/Syriancivil...53123048046336
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    With Crimea borders & territory didn't matter, with Syria they do. Hmm.
    http://m.sputniknews.com/analysis/20...vereignty.html

    Russia's annexation of Crimea in March of 2014, Putin told BILD, was simply the Kremlin's way of protecting the people of Crimea from being confined within the borders imposed upon them by the US and Europe after the West claimed victory in the Cold War.

    "Our soldiers have merely prevented the Ukrainian troops on Crimea from impeding the freedom of expression of the people," Putin said. "For me, it is not borders and state territories that matter, but people’s fortunes."

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