Syria: At least 15 civilians killed, tens wounded in a heavy regime airstrike on Aleppo's rebel-held As-Sukkari. Large number of children were wounded as usual
Turkish UAV Bayraktar TB2 attack on IS targets http://syria.liveuamap.com/en/2016/7...-on-is-targets …
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15 storm howitzers shipped to Gazientep from Istanbul this evening #Turkey
Syria: At least 15 civilians killed, tens wounded in a heavy regime airstrike on Aleppo's rebel-held As-Sukkari. Large number of children were wounded as usual
Jaish Fatah al Sham Grand Saga - Release about S. Aleppo offensive
https://youtu.be/pdULs3eXZnk
Has there EVER been a regime who used chemical weapons on "own" population more frequently? 169 times by 8/21 @snhr
Over 100 Injured in Chlorine Gas Attack by #Assad Regime in #Aleppo
http://ow.ly/Tnbx303YEoF
Day after Qassem Suleimani inspects their front lines, Nujaba says it is sending additional 1,000 fighters to #Syria
Sounds roughly like the number chewed up at The Wall and interior.
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Syria TuAF S-70A over northern Syria.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IloLIDrBUIY …
The Smoking Gun' - New article I wrote for @NewsweekME on chlorine gas attacks in #Syria.
http://newsweekme.com/the-smoking-gun/
Afrin: Turkish artillery killed 6 #YPG militias and wounded 10 more in #Afrin pocket.
Afrin: Turkish army deployed 90 tanks at the #Turkey-#Afrin border.
Aleppo: Rebels killed #Hezbollah commander Hassan Mussa Abdel Nabi Ali in #Ramouseh District today.
Syria 5 #YPG fighters were killed in TSk shelling on Sourke village north #Efrin
http://xeber24.org/142768.html
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Russia's Foreign Ministry: "We are deeply concerned by the movement of Turkish troops and #Ankara-backed Syrian opposition in #Syria."
WHY...because they are heading straight to Manbij and Aleppo......
Assad Regime to Besieged #Aleppo: Surrender or Starve
https://yallasouriya.wordpress.com/2...nder-or-starve …
AND the UNSC and the Obama WH say/do absolutely nothing......Istanbul— Aleppo is under siege again. Once again, some 300,000 civilians in the rebel-held eastern part of the city must eke out their survival with no fresh produce and a dwindling food supply, in addition to the other perils of life for those in the Assad regime’s political opposition.
That means barrel bombs that destroy houses and bury their children, and missiles that destroy their schools, mosques, and hospitals.
The siege crept up almost without notice over the past 10 days, as the regime closed the Alramousa road, the sole supply route into the old town, first by intense bombing and then by targeted missile attacks just weeks after a surprise rebel offensive had opened it.
State television on August 27 showed a missile attack against vehicles traversing the road that it said were carrying “mercenaries and armed elements.” Two days later, rebel media activists reached the scene, where they found the body of driver Abdo Rawas splayed out on the road, alongside his destroyed truck and its cargo of fruits and vegetables. The activists couldn’t find the body of Adnan, Rawas’s 12-year-old son, who was driving with him. They fear he was incinerated in the attack, leaving no remains.
The siege of Aleppo, like any siege, will come to an end at some point, but the question is on what terms. If the other sieges against other rebel-held towns in Syria are any guide, the terms will be take it or leave it: Surrender or starve.
Take Darayya, a Damascus suburb where a four-year regime siege ended just one week ago. Regime forces had destroyed or damaged practically every building in the town, seized the inhabitants’ farmland, burned their crops, and bombed their sole hospital.
In Darayya, townspeople were out of food, water, ammunition, and medical care when they agreed to leave their homes with no expectation of returning. More than 5,000 were deported to Idlib province, which is under rebel control, or to camps for the internally displaced in regime-held territory near the Syrian capital.
In Moadamiya, which abuts Darayya, a regime military officer, accompanied by Russian officials, told town representatives on Wednesday that defenders would have to give up their weapons and be sent to Idlib, but anyone who was willing to submit to regime control could stay.
Col. Ghassan Bilal said now that the regime had separated Moadamiya from Darayya, “There will be no more meetings.” If locals did not accept the deal, the opposition Smart news agency reported, he threatened to set the city on fire. A town spokesman said 45,000 are trapped there, along with possibly 2,800 rebel fighters.
The evacuation began Friday, with hundreds of civilians piling into buses to be evacuated to regime shelters. The monitoring group Physicians for Human Rights called the evacuation a war crime. “Nothing about this evacuation is voluntary, and nothing about this evacuation is legal,” said Widney Brown, the PHR programs director. “Under international law, both forced evacuations and besiegement, in which Moadamiya’s thousands of civilians are being deprived of vital food and medicine, are war crimes and crimes against humanity.”
In Al Waer, the regime fired napalm-like incendiaries, which produce orange flumes that intensify when doused with water.
Al Waer, a neighborhood in Homs where there are 80,000 civilians according to the Syrian opposition, has been under heavy attack since March, first from snipers, then mortars, artillery, missiles and air assault, local medical personnel reported. The regime tried out a new weapon on public locations as well as private dwellings, dubbed a cylinder missile, which consists of 300–400 kilograms of TNT. Launched from nearby areas, it can destroy a four-story building.
What the Assad regime chalks up as a morale-boosting success is simultaneously a signal failure for the US-led Friends of Syria Group, the international coalition that has provided pro-Western rebels with just enough arms and support to survive; as well as for the United Nations, which has been ordered by the Security Council to deliver food and medical supplies to the people under siege.
The UN, which has managed to deliver food and medicine only once in four years, “failed the people of Darayya, we all failed the people of Darayya,” Jan Egeland, a senior UN official, said in Geneva on Thursday. “I failed them, and it is really sad to think of what they went through over these years.”
A siege, he told reporters, “is not broken by the population giving up after starvation and after bombing. A siege is lifted by humanitarian access and freedom of movement, in and out, by the civilian population.”
The evacuation of Darayya was also an abject setback for the world’s governments, which are party to the 1949 Geneva Conventions and other instruments of international humanitarian law. A fundamental principle of the convention is that civilians are not to be made the object of attack in war, a lesson incorporated from the Holocaust and World War II.
Aleppo first came under siege around July 10, when the Assad regime, with Russian air support along with Iranian-led Hezbollah and other militias, cut the Castello road. At the time, it was the only secure route into eastern Aleppo, and they stopped the traffic by destroying at least 20 vehicles and their occupants as they tried to enter or leave the city. Amid Syrian-regime barrel bombing of civilian districts, along with Russian aircraft targeting at least six health facilities, Russia proposed setting up evacuation corridors so that residents could flee the city safely, a move that other UN Security Council members rejected.
On August 6, 27 days into the siege, rebel forces attacking from southern Aleppo linked with rebels based south of the city and freed the Alramousa road, which leads to eastern Aleppo. After several days of fighting, commercial traffic, ambulances, and private cars began to traverse the narrow road, marking a temporary end to the siege.
Within 10 days, regime aircraft began targeting the Alramousa road, and doctors based in eastern Aleppo reported that Russian jets were “hunting” the cars of civilians trying to flee the city.
By August 20, the road was impassable, rebel media activists said, and by August 27, regime forces, trying to regain lost territory, set up mortar positions on the hills above the road, giving them complete control over it.
“The regime and its allies were destroying everything on the road, even though they knew they were carrying civilians…”
It is now “a death road, like the Castello road,” Dr. Abdo Mohammadain told The Nation in a WhatsApp message Thursday from inside Aleppo. He said he had tried to drive the road twice, around August 24, first by ambulance and then by private car. “It was raining mortars, some landing just 20 meters from us, and we had to turn back because the driver didn’t think we would make it,” he said of the first attempt that morning.
On the second attempt, he said, aircraft were attacking cars, which were crashing and burning, causing accidents and blocking passage. “The regime and its allies were destroying everything on the road, even though they knew they were carrying civilians or transporting food or fuel for electric generators,” he said.
Stunning as these setbacks are, they receive little notice from the Obama administration, which is still hoping to convince Russia to observe a cease-fire and impose one on its Syrian ally. Not only has the president failed to comment, but US efforts to end the fighting, with a diplomatic drive that features carrots but no sticks, seem to be going nowhere.
Even as Russian aircraft destroyed a half-dozen medical facilities in Aleppo and other parts of northern Syria last month, the administration refused to pin responsibility on its negotiating partner. Human Rights Watch produced careful documentation in late July of Russia’s use of cluster bombs against Syrian civilians earlier that month, but the US government refused to confirm the data.
The worst terror in Syria is not from the Islamic State but from state-sponsored attacks on civilians, backed by Russia.
Far from taking the lead in organizing protection for civilians in Syria or allowing defenders to acquire arms so they can protect themselves, the administration strategy appears to be focused on reaching a deal with Russia on jointly bombing terrorist targets in Syria, a deal that would be accompanied by a national cease-fire. The problem with the strategy is in the different definitions of terrorists used by Moscow and Washington. It’s hard to see how they can reach an accord.
Continued.....
The US government, once the world’s leading champion of humanitarian law, is not completely silent but has been reduced to pro forma statements. “The United States deplores the regime’s attempt to besiege Aleppo city and demands that full access to the city be maintained,” said Michael Ratney, the US Special Envoy for Syria.
Continued.....
Madaya: Meningitis epidemic spread among women and children. No medicine available as Hezbollah besiege the area
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Army Of Islam @Islamarmy_eng3
Mujahideen foiled a penetration attempt from Daesh during the night in Jabal al-Naqab in the Eastern Qalamoun.
On 7/9/2016 Hassan @SyriaCivilDef was killed. This was him asking the world to stop the targeting of SCD. What shame on us. Today several wounded while rescuing others during a Russian cluster munitions air strike on civilians....
REMEMBER US Home Department of Homeland Security turned back the leader of the SCD when he arrived recently in Washington on a US Embassy issued valid visa to received a humanitarian award....detained him based on a number of Twitter comments to DHS that he was a member of AQ sent by an identified proAssad commenter.
DHS never checked the comments for their validity and the Obama WH never said a word about the incident.....ALMOST like they agreed with the actions of DHS....
NOW SCD is nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize.....REMEMBER Obama got his NPP for doing nothing.....other being elected US President and since then he has never used the moral power of the NPP for anything.....
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Obama and Kerry talk about humanitarian aid to the besieged areas in Syria....NOT even the UN is free from corruption it appears....SO why do they think humanitarian aid will arrive at all......ESPECISLLY when there are already UNSC resolutions on the subject as well as US/Russian Geneva statements on aid as well....and still nothing is being delivered....
DOES the Obama/Rhodes/Kerry WH and the entire UNSC have any explanation of this at all??????
Homs- Alwa’er #UN relief arived EMPTY boxes !!!
@Sy_Reporter
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y3Hs...ature=youtu.be …
Empty aid boxes from @UN to besieged Waer, nicely sums up how Assad uses UN to further his killings
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SOHR Turkish forces shell #Afrin countryside, killing &injuring about 16 mostly self-defense forces and Asayish
http://www.syriahr.com/en/?p=50392
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All the Obama/Rhodes/Kerry WH talks about are Sunni jihadists...FORGETTING they recently did a deal with Iran that actually supports Shia jihadists.....
Well worth reading......
Iran marshals an army of Shia jihadists to crush the Syrian population—excuse me, Takfiris—in Aleppo.
http://bit.ly/2bTTV1Z
Syria’s HNC will reject *any* US-#Russia plan that diverges from its political framework:
http://reut.rs/2c9KAGp
Pressure rising within US-#Russia talks on #Syria.
#Moscow has a U.S proposal, but is holding out.
#Washington wants to settle by Friday.
Worth noting that all key armed opposition groups have already determined their opposition to U.S. proposal terms:
[Encouraging] from UK Boris Johnson:
- "As long as #Assad is in power in #Damascus, there’ll be no #Syria to govern”
If no US-#Russia deal is reached, what is #Obama admin’s Plan B?
Sustain status quo + strikes vs. AQ?
Russia is holding out basically because they feel they can via the Iranian IRGC, Shia militias and Hezbollah launch a major attack on Aleppo and it end with a military victory thus do not want to be tied into some form of limitations.....this victory over Aleppo has been on the table since the Assad interview and the total lack of a Russia push back when it was aired....Originally Posted by OUTLAW 09
NOTICE for strange reason the Obama WH did not pick up and or wanted to pick up the linkage between the Assad interview on Aleppo and the resulting Russian actions in supporting Assad's attacks on Aleppo.....
WHY is that??
How Iran Conned the Internet/MSM Into Believing a Fake ISIS Story
http://thebea.st/2cGs63k
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Yesterday from the Russian FM......
7 September 201615:20
Foreign Ministry statement on Turkey’s military operation in Syria
I read this Russian statement as a warning to Kerry to go to Geneva and cave to Russian terms on Syria. Or else.The Foreign Ministry expresses grave concern about the advance of the Turkish troops and armed groups of the Syrian opposition it supports further into Syrian territory, and stresses that these actions are not being coordinated with the legitimate Syrian Government and are undertaken without approval of the UN Security Council. This undermines the sovereignty and territorial integrity of the Syrian Arab Republic. Taking this into account, the position adopted by Damascus seems justified and valid in terms of international law.
The Foreign Ministry believes that Turkey’s actions could further complicate an already challenging military and political situation in Syria and negatively affect international efforts to devise a settlement platform that would ensure a more sustainable ceasefire, uninterrupted humanitarian access and would provide a solid foundation for conciliation and overcoming the crisis in this country.
Russia calls on Ankara to put these objectives above immediate military and tactical aims and refrain from steps that could further destabilise the Syrian Arab Republic.
NOTE...just as the Syrian opposition HNC and armed groups have basically rejected anything the US/Russians work out.....highly suspect the Turks will not as well recognize anything the two work out.......
Russia is seriously concerned that there is enough Turkish firepower now on the ground and in the air to disrupt any Assad ground attacks planned for Aleppo.....and that combined with the FSA they must now negotiate with them as well as the US.....
Turkey has never stopped saying ...Assad must go....
On the 10 new wars brewing as a result of the ISIS war, listed here
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/...mepage%2Fstory …
Kyle W. Orton Verified account
@KyleWOrton
As @LizSly notes, (1) is already underway and (10) seems to me a certainty; in some ways that new stage has begun too. Watch (7) and (8).
Potentially all these wars involve somehow the Kurds.....and CENTCOM/Obama WH did not see this coming in their total support for PKK/YPG????
Quneitra: Israeli airstrikes destroyed first division headquarters, some Hezbollah fighters killed.
Ukraine - deeply concerned abt RU drills
Russia - gravely concerned abt Turkey's advance in Syria
USA - very concerned abt a bunch of stuff
Fastaqem Union @fko_union blow up a bobby trapped building after regime forces move into it. #FSA #Aleppo #Ramouseh
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ildltYTxLj8 …
Ahrar al Sham "Winds of Rage" media release coming soon. @Ahrar_lens
Go Pros marketing campaign has gotten considerably more intense.
Southern front attacking Islamic State in Yarmouk Basin
https://youtu.be/LHTgK0OHd-0
Assad regime in #DeirEzzor delays the evacuation of the civilians, in order to allow its soldiers to leave for #Eid vacations.
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Shiite #Iraq'i Haraket al-Nujba militia backed by #Assad-forces invade now Ramouseh in southern #Aleppo
http://wikimapia.org/#lang=de&lat=36...33017&z=15&m=b …
S. #Aleppo: Jaish Al-Fateh repelled several overnight attempts by pro-Regime forces to seize the Missile Battalion. http://wikimapia.org/#lang=en&lat=36....102203&z=14&m …
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