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One day without airstrikes and FSA already took 10+ towns...
One Manpads and ASSad/Iran forces already collapsing... I'm pretty sure they are begging RU to re-start airstrikes... Let's see how long will it last...
One Manpads and ASSad/Iran forces already collapsing... I'm pretty sure they are begging RU to re-start airstrikes... Let's see how long will it last...
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If i was FSA i would go talk with russia about, let them stay wher they are. Power shifting, the assad/iran is not strong.
Wel they have let the ypg fighters pas and with weapons, so we are sending a block and they got frustated. This time they will get hit if they do something stupid.
Wel they have let the ypg fighters pas and with weapons, so we are sending a block and they got frustated. This time they will get hit if they do something stupid.
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http://www.arabnews.com/node/1240811/middle-east
“The number of unexploded ordnance in Raqqa is something that we have never seen before. Extreme. Every house, every room, every inch of the city,” he said.
Landmines are causing 50-70 casualties a week — about the number that usually hit all of Afghanistan in a year — he said.
An alliance of Kurdish and Arab militias backed by a US-led coalition captured Raqqa in November after a long campaign to besiege the city followed by months of fighting inside it.
As well as land mines and improvised explosives planted by Daesh, there may also be undetonated bombs and missiles used by the coalition in its massive blitz of Raqqa.
The jihadist group still holds a few scattered pockets in Syria and Iraq, but has lost almost all its possessions in the two countries, where at its height it ruled over millions of people.
As when attacked in other parts of its self-declared “caliphate,” it used many booby traps as a tactic against its advancing foes. But in Raqqa many of the hidden bombs appear aimed at civilians.
“It is vicious to think they are deliberately planted to kill, to kill civilians, to kill people,” said Moumtzis.
http://saudigazette.com.sa/article/...-in-Syrias-Ghouta-even-as-UN-pleads-for-truce
Damascus — Fresh air strikes by the Syrian military on the rebel-held enclave of Eastern Ghouta, near Damascus, killed at least 16 civilians on Tuesday, a monitoring group said.
"There were 16 killed, two of them children, in intensive air raids carried out by the regime against several regions of Eastern Ghouta," Rami Abdel Rahman, the head of the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, said.
The Britain-based war monitor said Syrian government aircraft and shelling hit the towns of Harasta, Hamouriya, Douma and other parts of the eastern Ghouta pocket near the capital.
The United Nations in Syria appealed on Tuesday for a one-month truce in the conflict to allow aid to reach hundreds of thousands of civilians in urgent need of assistance.
In a statement issued in Damascus, the UN said a humanitarian crisis was unfolding in several parts of the country to which it was not being given access.
The UN's humanitarian coordinator and top envoys in Syria called "for an immediate cessation of hostilities lasting for at least one month throughout Syria."
The measure would "enable the delivery of humanitarian aid and services, evacuation of the critically sick and wounded, and alleviation of people's suffering, to the extent possible, wherever they are," the UN said.
On Monday, regime bombardment killed nearly 30 people in a rebel enclave near, as Syria's seven-year conflict left civilians paying a heavy price.
Residents across several Syrian battlefronts have reported escalating bombardment and have accused Syrian troops of deploying toxic chemicals against rebel-held zones.
The United States on Monday said there was “obvious evidence” of multiple chlorine gas attacks in recent weeks, including in the opposition-held enclave of Eastern Ghouta near Damascus.
On Monday, dozens of air strikes and artillery fire battered Eastern Ghouta, according to the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.
"Twenty-nine civilians were killed and dozens were wounded," said the war monitor's head, Rami Abdel Rahman.
The deadliest raids on Monday hit a market in the town of Beit Sawa, killing 10 civilians including two children.
Another nine civilians, two of them children and one a local rescue worker, were killed in Arbin.
Eastern Ghouta is included in a de-escalation deal agreed last year by rebel ally Turkey and government supporters Iran and Russia.
But violence has ramped up there in recent weeks, and this month alone, chlorine is suspected of having been used on two occasions in munitions launched by the regime on Eastern Ghouta.
A third accusation of toxic gas use came from Idlib, an opposition-controlled province in the country's northwest that also falls in a de-escalation zone.
Nearly a dozen people were treated for breathing difficulties on Sunday after Syrian government raids on the town of Saraqeb, the Observatory said.
Mohammad Ghaleb Tannari, a doctor in a nearby town, said his hospital had treated 11 people.
"All the cases we received had symptoms consistent with inhaling the toxic chlorine gas, including exhaustion, difficulty breathing, and coughing," he told AFP.
The United States and Russia clashed at the UN Security Council on Monday over a push by Washington to condemn reported chlorine gas attacks in Syria.
On Jan. 20, Turkish forces backing Syrian rebels launched a major operation against the Kurdish-controlled region of Afrin in the north of the country.
Large numbers of people who were displaced by last year's operations against the Islamic State group in the Raqa and Deir Ezzor regions are still in urgent need of humanitarian relief.
The UN said existing agreements on the delivery of aid were not being honored and stressed that "if access was granted, three convoys could be dispatched each week, reaching over 700,000 people in these areas in two months."
While the fighting is abating in some parts of the country, the humanitarian crisis is still in full swing and aid groups predict a further 1.5 million people will be displaced in 2018. — Agencies
http://aa.com.tr/en/middle-east/turkey-makes-pyd-pkks-4-km-ditch-in-syria-unusable/1056026
By Omer Koparan and Dildar Baykan
AZEZ, Syria
Turkish soldiers and Free Syrian Army (FSA) fighters uncovered a 4-kilometer (2.5-mile) long ditch used by terrorist PYD/PKK group in a liberated village during Turkey’s ongoing Operation Olive Branch in northwestern Syria.
On the 18th day of the operation, the 3.5-meter deep and 3-meter wide ditch linking Dikmetas, under control of terror group, and opposition-held Yazibag villages was discovered.
Opposition forces, later, filled the ditch with soil and made it unusable.
A total of 970 PKK/KCK/PYD-YPG and Daesh terrorists have been "neutralized" since the launch of Operation Olive Branch in Syria's Afrin region, the military said on Tuesday.
A total of 36 locations, including 23 villages and 11 strategic hills have been liberated so far in the operation.
On Jan. 20, Turkey launched Operation Olive Branch along with the Free Syrian Army (FSA) to clear PYD/PKK and Daesh terrorists from Afrin, northwestern Syria.
According to the Turkish General Staff, the operation aims to establish security and stability along Turkey’s borders and the region as well as protect Syrians from terrorist oppression and cruelty.
The operation is being carried out under the framework of Turkey's rights based on international law, UN Security Council resolutions, its self-defense rights under the UN charter, and respect for Syria's territorial integrity, it said.
The military also said only terror targets are being destroyed and that "utmost importance and sensitivity" is being put on avoiding harming civilians.
Afrin has been a major hideout for the PYD/PKK since July 2012, when the Bashar al-Assad regime in Syria left the city to the terror group without a fight.
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http://aa.com.tr/en/middle-east/russian-airstrikes-kill-4-civilians-in-syrias-idlib/1056085
IDLIB, Syria
Four civilians were killed on Tuesday when Russian fighter jets conducted a series of airstrikes in northern Syria, according to local civil-defense officials.
Both Russia and the Assad regime have continued to carry out fierce airstrikes, both in central Idlib and in rural areas, Mustafa Haj Youssef, head of the White Helmets civil-defense agency in Idlib, told Anadolu Agency.
“Four civilians lost their lives due to airstrikes carried out by Russian warplanes in Idlib’s town of Saraqib and the villages of Termala and Al-Gadfa,” Youssef said.
He went on to note that the bodies of eight other civilians killed two days earlier had been unearthed from the rubble of collapsed structures on Tuesday.
According to civil-defense officials, the death toll is expected to rise further as the airstrikes continue.
Over the course of the last week, dozens of civilians have been killed in Idlib as Russian and regime warplanes target residential areas and refugee camps.
Notably, Idlib falls within a network of de-escalation zones -- endorsed by Turkey, Russia and Iran -- in which acts of aggression are expressly prohibited.
Controlled largely by armed anti-regime groups, Idlib has remained the target of intense airstrikes for the last two months. In January alone, 211 civilians were killed and another 1,447 injured.
Syria remains locked in a devastating conflict that began in 2011, when the Assad regime cracked down on demonstrators with disproportionate force and unexpected ferocity.
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http://aa.com.tr/en/turkey/downed-su-25-jet-pilots-body-handed-over-to-russia/1055859
MOSCOW
Downed Su-25 fighter jet pilot's body has been delivered to Russia, according to the Russian Defense Ministry Tuesday.
"The body of Roman Filipov has been returned, thanks to the actions of Russian intelligence service and Turkish Armed Forces," the ministry said in a statement.
A farewell ceremony at the request of Filipov's family will be held on Feb. 7 in Russian southern city of Voronezh, it added.
On Saturday, a Russian Su-25 fighter jet was shot down while flying over the Idlib de-escalation zone.
Located in northern Syria near the Turkish border, the Idlib province was declared a de-escalation zone.
In the de-escalation zones -- endorsed by Turkey, Russia and Iran -- acts of aggression are expressly prohibited.
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http://aa.com.tr/en/life/pyd-pkk-rocket-attack-devastates-family-in-north-syria/1055880
The PYD/PKK terror organization has once again demonstrated its ugly face by destroying dreams of the Tavil family, who live in Azaz district of Aleppo in northern Syria.
It is well known that the PYD/PKK targets mosques, hospitals and schools. On Monday, the terror group targeted Tavil family in Azaz with rockets as they were heading to work on a farm; a child lost his life while five others were injured in the incident.
The Tavil family lost their 10-year-old son, Abir, on Monday. Words cannot describe the pain experienced by the family, they said.
Among other family members injured in the rocket attack were: 2-year-old Surayya, 4-year-old Ahmad, 11-year-old Yousuf and 13-year-old Sayma and their uncle.
Sayma, who was taken to a hospital in southern Kilis province, will be operated upon Tuesday. The young girl remains unaware of the death of her brother Abir.
'Operation Olive Branch' to Afrin
ALEPPO, SYRIA - JANUARY 30: A member of Free Syrian Army (FSA) patrols near a tunnel, which was used by PKK/PYD terror groups, after Turkish Armed Forces and FSA freed a village then discovered the tunnel within the "Operation Olive Branch" launched in Syria's Afrin region, on January 30, 2018. Turkey launched Operation Olive Branch on January 20 in Syria’s northwestern Afrin region; the aim of the operation is to establish security and stability along Turkish borders and the region as well as to eliminate PKK/KCK/PYD-YPG and Daesh terror groups, and protect the Syrian people from the oppression and cruelty of terrorists. ( Emin Sansar - Anadolu Agency
'Operation Olive Branch' to Afrin
ALEPPO, SYRIA - JANUARY 30: Members of Free Syrian Army (FSA) patrol near a tunnel, which was used by PKK/PYD terror groups, after Turkish Armed Forces and FSA freed a village then discovered the tunnel within the "Operation Olive Branch" launched in Syria's Afrin region, on January 30, 2018. Turkey launched Operation Olive Branch on January 20 in Syria’s northwestern Afrin region; the aim of the operation is to establish security and stability along Turkish borders and the region as well as to eliminate PKK/KCK/PYD-YPG and Daesh terror groups, and protect the Syrian people from the oppression and cruelty of terrorists. ( Emin Sansar - Anadolu Agency )
'Operation Olive Branch' to Afrin
ALEPPO, SYRIA - JANUARY 30: A member of Free Syrian Army (FSA) enters a tunnel, which was used by PKK/PYD terror groups, after Turkish Armed Forces and FSA freed a village then discovered the tunnel within the "Operation Olive Branch" launched in Syria's Afrin region, on January 30, 2018. Turkey launched Operation Olive Branch on January 20 in Syria’s northwestern Afrin region; the aim of the operation is to establish security and stability along Turkish borders and the region as well as to eliminate PKK/KCK/PYD-YPG and Daesh terror groups, and protect the Syrian people from the oppression and cruelty of terrorists. ( Emin Sansar - Anadolu Agency )
Operation Olive Branch
HATAY, TURKEY - FEBRUARY 1: Military vehicles and personnel of Turkey are being dispatched to Turkey’s Hatay border to support the units within the 'Operation Olive Branch' launched in Syria's Afrin region, on February 01, 2018 in Hatay, Turkey. Turkey launched Operation Olive Branch on January 20 in Syria’s northwestern Afrin region; the aim of the operation is to establish security and stability along Turkish borders and the region as well as to eliminate PKK/KCK/PYD-YPG and Daesh terror groups, and protect the Syrian people from the oppression and cruelty of terrorists. ( Burak Milli - Anadolu Agency )
Operation Olive Branch
HATAY, TURKEY - FEBRUARY 1: Military vehicles and personnel of Turkey are being dispatched to Turkey’s Hatay border to support the units within the 'Operation Olive Branch' launched in Syria's Afrin region, on February 01, 2018 in Hatay, Turkey. Turkey launched Operation Olive Branch on January 20 in Syria’s northwestern Afrin region; the aim of the operation is to establish security and stability along Turkish borders and the region as well as to eliminate PKK/KCK/PYD-YPG and Daesh terror groups, and protect the Syrian people from the oppression and cruelty of terrorists. ( Burak Milli - Anadolu Agency )
'Operation Olive Branch' to Afrin
HATAY, TURKEY - FEBRUARY 01: A photo taken from Turkey's Hatay province shows Turkish Armed Forces' artillery as they continue to hit PYD/PKK terror group targets within the 'Operation Olive Branch' launched in Syria's Afrin, on February 01, 2018. Turkey launched Operation Olive Branch on January 20 in Syria’s northwestern Afrin region; the aim of the operation is to establish security and stability along Turkish borders and the region as well as to eliminate PKK/KCK/PYD-YPG and Daesh terror groups, and protect the Syrian people from the oppression and cruelty of terrorists. ( Eren Bozkurt - Anadolu Agency )
Operation Olive Branch' to Afrin
HATAY, TURKEY - FEBRUARY 01: A photo taken from Turkey's Hatay province shows Turkish Armed Forces' artillery as they continue to hit PYD/PKK terror group targets within the 'Operation Olive Branch' launched in Syria's Afrin, on February 01, 2018. Turkey launched Operation Olive Branch on January 20 in Syria’s northwestern Afrin region; the aim of the operation is to establish security and stability along Turkish borders and the region as well as to eliminate PKK/KCK/PYD-YPG and Daesh terror groups, and protect the Syrian people from the oppression and cruelty of terrorists. ( Eren Bozkurt - Anadolu Agency )
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'Operation Olive Branch' to Afrin
HATAY, TURKEY - FEBRUARY 01: A photo taken from Turkey's Hatay province shows Turkish Armed Forces' artillery as they continue to hit PYD/PKK terror group targets within the 'Operation Olive Branch' launched in Syria's Afrin, on February 01, 2018. Turkey launched Operation Olive Branch on January 20 in Syria’s northwestern Afrin region; the aim of the operation is to establish security and stability along Turkish borders and the region as well as to eliminate PKK/KCK/PYD-YPG and Daesh terror groups, and protect the Syrian people from the oppression and cruelty of terrorists. ( Eren Bozkurt - Anadolu Agency )
'Operation Olive Branch' to Afrin
HATAY, TURKEY - FEBRUARY 01: A photo taken from Turkey's Hatay province shows Turkish Armed Forces' artillery as they continue to hit PYD/PKK terror group targets within the 'Operation Olive Branch' launched in Syria's Afrin, on February 01, 2018. Turkey launched Operation Olive Branch on January 20 in Syria’s northwestern Afrin region; the aim of the operation is to establish security and stability along Turkish borders and the region as well as to eliminate PKK/KCK/PYD-YPG and Daesh terror groups, and protect the Syrian people from the oppression and cruelty of terrorists. ( Eren Bozkurt - Anadolu Agency )
http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/ov...egic-areas-captured-in-afrin-operation-126857
A total of 970 YPG and ISIL militants have been “neutralized” since the launch of “Operation Olive Branch” in Syria’s Afrin district, the military said on Feb. 6.
Turkish authorities often use the word “neutralized” to imply the militants in question either surrendered or were killed or captured.
In a statement, the Turkish General Staff said 23 People's Protection Units (YPG) and Islamic State of Iraq and Levant (ISIL) militants had been neutralized on Feb. 6.
On Jan. 20, Turkey launched “Operation Olive Branch” to clear “YPG and ISIL militants” from Syria’s northwestern Afrin district.
Afrin village captured
Turkish forces and the Free Syrian Army (FSA) on Feb. 5 captured another village from YPG militants in Syria’s Afrin.
According to a correspondent based in the region, Dikmetaş village in the town of Sharan and Mount Sirghaya were both cleared of militants.
Since the beginning of Turkey’s “Operation Olive Branch” on Jan. 20, the Turkish Armed Forces and the FSA have managed to capture 36 strategic areas.
“The number of unexploded ordnance in Raqqa is something that we have never seen before. Extreme. Every house, every room, every inch of the city,” he said.
Landmines are causing 50-70 casualties a week — about the number that usually hit all of Afghanistan in a year — he said.
An alliance of Kurdish and Arab militias backed by a US-led coalition captured Raqqa in November after a long campaign to besiege the city followed by months of fighting inside it.
As well as land mines and improvised explosives planted by Daesh, there may also be undetonated bombs and missiles used by the coalition in its massive blitz of Raqqa.
The jihadist group still holds a few scattered pockets in Syria and Iraq, but has lost almost all its possessions in the two countries, where at its height it ruled over millions of people.
As when attacked in other parts of its self-declared “caliphate,” it used many booby traps as a tactic against its advancing foes. But in Raqqa many of the hidden bombs appear aimed at civilians.
“It is vicious to think they are deliberately planted to kill, to kill civilians, to kill people,” said Moumtzis.
http://saudigazette.com.sa/article/...-in-Syrias-Ghouta-even-as-UN-pleads-for-truce
Damascus — Fresh air strikes by the Syrian military on the rebel-held enclave of Eastern Ghouta, near Damascus, killed at least 16 civilians on Tuesday, a monitoring group said.
"There were 16 killed, two of them children, in intensive air raids carried out by the regime against several regions of Eastern Ghouta," Rami Abdel Rahman, the head of the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, said.
The Britain-based war monitor said Syrian government aircraft and shelling hit the towns of Harasta, Hamouriya, Douma and other parts of the eastern Ghouta pocket near the capital.
The United Nations in Syria appealed on Tuesday for a one-month truce in the conflict to allow aid to reach hundreds of thousands of civilians in urgent need of assistance.
In a statement issued in Damascus, the UN said a humanitarian crisis was unfolding in several parts of the country to which it was not being given access.
The UN's humanitarian coordinator and top envoys in Syria called "for an immediate cessation of hostilities lasting for at least one month throughout Syria."
The measure would "enable the delivery of humanitarian aid and services, evacuation of the critically sick and wounded, and alleviation of people's suffering, to the extent possible, wherever they are," the UN said.
On Monday, regime bombardment killed nearly 30 people in a rebel enclave near, as Syria's seven-year conflict left civilians paying a heavy price.
Residents across several Syrian battlefronts have reported escalating bombardment and have accused Syrian troops of deploying toxic chemicals against rebel-held zones.
The United States on Monday said there was “obvious evidence” of multiple chlorine gas attacks in recent weeks, including in the opposition-held enclave of Eastern Ghouta near Damascus.
On Monday, dozens of air strikes and artillery fire battered Eastern Ghouta, according to the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.
"Twenty-nine civilians were killed and dozens were wounded," said the war monitor's head, Rami Abdel Rahman.
The deadliest raids on Monday hit a market in the town of Beit Sawa, killing 10 civilians including two children.
Another nine civilians, two of them children and one a local rescue worker, were killed in Arbin.
Eastern Ghouta is included in a de-escalation deal agreed last year by rebel ally Turkey and government supporters Iran and Russia.
But violence has ramped up there in recent weeks, and this month alone, chlorine is suspected of having been used on two occasions in munitions launched by the regime on Eastern Ghouta.
A third accusation of toxic gas use came from Idlib, an opposition-controlled province in the country's northwest that also falls in a de-escalation zone.
Nearly a dozen people were treated for breathing difficulties on Sunday after Syrian government raids on the town of Saraqeb, the Observatory said.
Mohammad Ghaleb Tannari, a doctor in a nearby town, said his hospital had treated 11 people.
"All the cases we received had symptoms consistent with inhaling the toxic chlorine gas, including exhaustion, difficulty breathing, and coughing," he told AFP.
The United States and Russia clashed at the UN Security Council on Monday over a push by Washington to condemn reported chlorine gas attacks in Syria.
On Jan. 20, Turkish forces backing Syrian rebels launched a major operation against the Kurdish-controlled region of Afrin in the north of the country.
Large numbers of people who were displaced by last year's operations against the Islamic State group in the Raqa and Deir Ezzor regions are still in urgent need of humanitarian relief.
The UN said existing agreements on the delivery of aid were not being honored and stressed that "if access was granted, three convoys could be dispatched each week, reaching over 700,000 people in these areas in two months."
While the fighting is abating in some parts of the country, the humanitarian crisis is still in full swing and aid groups predict a further 1.5 million people will be displaced in 2018. — Agencies
http://aa.com.tr/en/middle-east/turkey-makes-pyd-pkks-4-km-ditch-in-syria-unusable/1056026
By Omer Koparan and Dildar Baykan
AZEZ, Syria
Turkish soldiers and Free Syrian Army (FSA) fighters uncovered a 4-kilometer (2.5-mile) long ditch used by terrorist PYD/PKK group in a liberated village during Turkey’s ongoing Operation Olive Branch in northwestern Syria.
On the 18th day of the operation, the 3.5-meter deep and 3-meter wide ditch linking Dikmetas, under control of terror group, and opposition-held Yazibag villages was discovered.
Opposition forces, later, filled the ditch with soil and made it unusable.
A total of 970 PKK/KCK/PYD-YPG and Daesh terrorists have been "neutralized" since the launch of Operation Olive Branch in Syria's Afrin region, the military said on Tuesday.
A total of 36 locations, including 23 villages and 11 strategic hills have been liberated so far in the operation.
On Jan. 20, Turkey launched Operation Olive Branch along with the Free Syrian Army (FSA) to clear PYD/PKK and Daesh terrorists from Afrin, northwestern Syria.
According to the Turkish General Staff, the operation aims to establish security and stability along Turkey’s borders and the region as well as protect Syrians from terrorist oppression and cruelty.
The operation is being carried out under the framework of Turkey's rights based on international law, UN Security Council resolutions, its self-defense rights under the UN charter, and respect for Syria's territorial integrity, it said.
The military also said only terror targets are being destroyed and that "utmost importance and sensitivity" is being put on avoiding harming civilians.
Afrin has been a major hideout for the PYD/PKK since July 2012, when the Bashar al-Assad regime in Syria left the city to the terror group without a fight.
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http://aa.com.tr/en/middle-east/russian-airstrikes-kill-4-civilians-in-syrias-idlib/1056085
IDLIB, Syria
Four civilians were killed on Tuesday when Russian fighter jets conducted a series of airstrikes in northern Syria, according to local civil-defense officials.
Both Russia and the Assad regime have continued to carry out fierce airstrikes, both in central Idlib and in rural areas, Mustafa Haj Youssef, head of the White Helmets civil-defense agency in Idlib, told Anadolu Agency.
“Four civilians lost their lives due to airstrikes carried out by Russian warplanes in Idlib’s town of Saraqib and the villages of Termala and Al-Gadfa,” Youssef said.
He went on to note that the bodies of eight other civilians killed two days earlier had been unearthed from the rubble of collapsed structures on Tuesday.
According to civil-defense officials, the death toll is expected to rise further as the airstrikes continue.
Over the course of the last week, dozens of civilians have been killed in Idlib as Russian and regime warplanes target residential areas and refugee camps.
Notably, Idlib falls within a network of de-escalation zones -- endorsed by Turkey, Russia and Iran -- in which acts of aggression are expressly prohibited.
Controlled largely by armed anti-regime groups, Idlib has remained the target of intense airstrikes for the last two months. In January alone, 211 civilians were killed and another 1,447 injured.
Syria remains locked in a devastating conflict that began in 2011, when the Assad regime cracked down on demonstrators with disproportionate force and unexpected ferocity.
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http://aa.com.tr/en/turkey/downed-su-25-jet-pilots-body-handed-over-to-russia/1055859
MOSCOW
Downed Su-25 fighter jet pilot's body has been delivered to Russia, according to the Russian Defense Ministry Tuesday.
"The body of Roman Filipov has been returned, thanks to the actions of Russian intelligence service and Turkish Armed Forces," the ministry said in a statement.
A farewell ceremony at the request of Filipov's family will be held on Feb. 7 in Russian southern city of Voronezh, it added.
On Saturday, a Russian Su-25 fighter jet was shot down while flying over the Idlib de-escalation zone.
Located in northern Syria near the Turkish border, the Idlib province was declared a de-escalation zone.
In the de-escalation zones -- endorsed by Turkey, Russia and Iran -- acts of aggression are expressly prohibited.
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http://aa.com.tr/en/life/pyd-pkk-rocket-attack-devastates-family-in-north-syria/1055880
The PYD/PKK terror organization has once again demonstrated its ugly face by destroying dreams of the Tavil family, who live in Azaz district of Aleppo in northern Syria.
It is well known that the PYD/PKK targets mosques, hospitals and schools. On Monday, the terror group targeted Tavil family in Azaz with rockets as they were heading to work on a farm; a child lost his life while five others were injured in the incident.
The Tavil family lost their 10-year-old son, Abir, on Monday. Words cannot describe the pain experienced by the family, they said.
Among other family members injured in the rocket attack were: 2-year-old Surayya, 4-year-old Ahmad, 11-year-old Yousuf and 13-year-old Sayma and their uncle.
Sayma, who was taken to a hospital in southern Kilis province, will be operated upon Tuesday. The young girl remains unaware of the death of her brother Abir.
'Operation Olive Branch' to Afrin
ALEPPO, SYRIA - JANUARY 30: A member of Free Syrian Army (FSA) patrols near a tunnel, which was used by PKK/PYD terror groups, after Turkish Armed Forces and FSA freed a village then discovered the tunnel within the "Operation Olive Branch" launched in Syria's Afrin region, on January 30, 2018. Turkey launched Operation Olive Branch on January 20 in Syria’s northwestern Afrin region; the aim of the operation is to establish security and stability along Turkish borders and the region as well as to eliminate PKK/KCK/PYD-YPG and Daesh terror groups, and protect the Syrian people from the oppression and cruelty of terrorists. ( Emin Sansar - Anadolu Agency
'Operation Olive Branch' to Afrin
ALEPPO, SYRIA - JANUARY 30: Members of Free Syrian Army (FSA) patrol near a tunnel, which was used by PKK/PYD terror groups, after Turkish Armed Forces and FSA freed a village then discovered the tunnel within the "Operation Olive Branch" launched in Syria's Afrin region, on January 30, 2018. Turkey launched Operation Olive Branch on January 20 in Syria’s northwestern Afrin region; the aim of the operation is to establish security and stability along Turkish borders and the region as well as to eliminate PKK/KCK/PYD-YPG and Daesh terror groups, and protect the Syrian people from the oppression and cruelty of terrorists. ( Emin Sansar - Anadolu Agency )
'Operation Olive Branch' to Afrin
ALEPPO, SYRIA - JANUARY 30: A member of Free Syrian Army (FSA) enters a tunnel, which was used by PKK/PYD terror groups, after Turkish Armed Forces and FSA freed a village then discovered the tunnel within the "Operation Olive Branch" launched in Syria's Afrin region, on January 30, 2018. Turkey launched Operation Olive Branch on January 20 in Syria’s northwestern Afrin region; the aim of the operation is to establish security and stability along Turkish borders and the region as well as to eliminate PKK/KCK/PYD-YPG and Daesh terror groups, and protect the Syrian people from the oppression and cruelty of terrorists. ( Emin Sansar - Anadolu Agency )
Operation Olive Branch
HATAY, TURKEY - FEBRUARY 1: Military vehicles and personnel of Turkey are being dispatched to Turkey’s Hatay border to support the units within the 'Operation Olive Branch' launched in Syria's Afrin region, on February 01, 2018 in Hatay, Turkey. Turkey launched Operation Olive Branch on January 20 in Syria’s northwestern Afrin region; the aim of the operation is to establish security and stability along Turkish borders and the region as well as to eliminate PKK/KCK/PYD-YPG and Daesh terror groups, and protect the Syrian people from the oppression and cruelty of terrorists. ( Burak Milli - Anadolu Agency )
Operation Olive Branch
HATAY, TURKEY - FEBRUARY 1: Military vehicles and personnel of Turkey are being dispatched to Turkey’s Hatay border to support the units within the 'Operation Olive Branch' launched in Syria's Afrin region, on February 01, 2018 in Hatay, Turkey. Turkey launched Operation Olive Branch on January 20 in Syria’s northwestern Afrin region; the aim of the operation is to establish security and stability along Turkish borders and the region as well as to eliminate PKK/KCK/PYD-YPG and Daesh terror groups, and protect the Syrian people from the oppression and cruelty of terrorists. ( Burak Milli - Anadolu Agency )
'Operation Olive Branch' to Afrin
HATAY, TURKEY - FEBRUARY 01: A photo taken from Turkey's Hatay province shows Turkish Armed Forces' artillery as they continue to hit PYD/PKK terror group targets within the 'Operation Olive Branch' launched in Syria's Afrin, on February 01, 2018. Turkey launched Operation Olive Branch on January 20 in Syria’s northwestern Afrin region; the aim of the operation is to establish security and stability along Turkish borders and the region as well as to eliminate PKK/KCK/PYD-YPG and Daesh terror groups, and protect the Syrian people from the oppression and cruelty of terrorists. ( Eren Bozkurt - Anadolu Agency )
Operation Olive Branch' to Afrin
HATAY, TURKEY - FEBRUARY 01: A photo taken from Turkey's Hatay province shows Turkish Armed Forces' artillery as they continue to hit PYD/PKK terror group targets within the 'Operation Olive Branch' launched in Syria's Afrin, on February 01, 2018. Turkey launched Operation Olive Branch on January 20 in Syria’s northwestern Afrin region; the aim of the operation is to establish security and stability along Turkish borders and the region as well as to eliminate PKK/KCK/PYD-YPG and Daesh terror groups, and protect the Syrian people from the oppression and cruelty of terrorists. ( Eren Bozkurt - Anadolu Agency )
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'Operation Olive Branch' to Afrin
HATAY, TURKEY - FEBRUARY 01: A photo taken from Turkey's Hatay province shows Turkish Armed Forces' artillery as they continue to hit PYD/PKK terror group targets within the 'Operation Olive Branch' launched in Syria's Afrin, on February 01, 2018. Turkey launched Operation Olive Branch on January 20 in Syria’s northwestern Afrin region; the aim of the operation is to establish security and stability along Turkish borders and the region as well as to eliminate PKK/KCK/PYD-YPG and Daesh terror groups, and protect the Syrian people from the oppression and cruelty of terrorists. ( Eren Bozkurt - Anadolu Agency )
'Operation Olive Branch' to Afrin
HATAY, TURKEY - FEBRUARY 01: A photo taken from Turkey's Hatay province shows Turkish Armed Forces' artillery as they continue to hit PYD/PKK terror group targets within the 'Operation Olive Branch' launched in Syria's Afrin, on February 01, 2018. Turkey launched Operation Olive Branch on January 20 in Syria’s northwestern Afrin region; the aim of the operation is to establish security and stability along Turkish borders and the region as well as to eliminate PKK/KCK/PYD-YPG and Daesh terror groups, and protect the Syrian people from the oppression and cruelty of terrorists. ( Eren Bozkurt - Anadolu Agency )
http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/ov...egic-areas-captured-in-afrin-operation-126857
A total of 970 YPG and ISIL militants have been “neutralized” since the launch of “Operation Olive Branch” in Syria’s Afrin district, the military said on Feb. 6.
Turkish authorities often use the word “neutralized” to imply the militants in question either surrendered or were killed or captured.
In a statement, the Turkish General Staff said 23 People's Protection Units (YPG) and Islamic State of Iraq and Levant (ISIL) militants had been neutralized on Feb. 6.
On Jan. 20, Turkey launched “Operation Olive Branch” to clear “YPG and ISIL militants” from Syria’s northwestern Afrin district.
Afrin village captured
Turkish forces and the Free Syrian Army (FSA) on Feb. 5 captured another village from YPG militants in Syria’s Afrin.
According to a correspondent based in the region, Dikmetaş village in the town of Sharan and Mount Sirghaya were both cleared of militants.
Since the beginning of Turkey’s “Operation Olive Branch” on Jan. 20, the Turkish Armed Forces and the FSA have managed to capture 36 strategic areas.
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Let's say you are you...and I, for years killed you mother, then father, then sister/brother then your son/daughter... and laugh about it...
I only left you alive... for you to remember those days where you had to take your mother head 10 meters from her body... your father...with a face that beyond recognition... and the legs/hands left of your own brothers/sisters...
I let you live... for you to remember endlessly how un-powerful and weak you were... A simple pityfull man crying like a baby at his own despair...
I let you live... for you to have only a shitty future... die with them by your own hands /Runway as far as possible and let those pictures haunt you till your last breath...or take revenge...
Now I ask you again...What will you do if you were an FSA soldier?
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I understand what you mean, it is not easy to ask like that. If they cut support to assad/iran then the war will be over. I can't imagine what i would do.
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Syria attacks kill dozens in rebel-held Eastern Ghouta
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Rebel-held Eastern Ghouta has been under a government siege since 2013 [Anadolu]
MORE ON SYRIA'S CIVIL WAR
The latest casualties on Tuesday bring to 78 the total number of deaths in the last 24 hours in the rebel-held area near Damascus, the UK-based war monitor said.
"Today there is no safe area at all," Siraj Mahmoud, head of the civil defence rescue service outside Damascus, told Reuters news agency.
"Right now, we have people under rubble, the targeting is ongoing, warplanes on residential neighbourhoods."
The Syrian Observatory said it was the highest number of deaths recorded in one day since attacks escalated six weeks ago. More than 335 people have been killed since then.
Syria, Russia escalate air raids on rebel-held areas
It warned the death toll could rise as bodies were still being pulled from the rubble and many of the 197 wounded were in critical condition.
In Damascus, the office of Russia's trade mission in Syria was bombed on Tuesday, according to its foreign ministry.
There were no reported casualties, though the building was heavily damaged by the blast, Russia's Tass news agency quoted the ministry as saying.
It didn't say who was responsible for the attack.
Syria's state SANA news agency reported at least three people were killed in shelling on Tuesday from rebel areas on parts of the old city of Damascus.
Ceasefire?
The UN mission in Syria issued a statement in Damascus on Tuesday calling for a month-long truce.
The halt would "enable the delivery of humanitarian aid and services, evacuation of the critically sick and wounded, and alleviation of people's suffering", the statement said.
A source from the civil defence inside Eastern Ghouta told Al Jazeera dozens of air raids hit several residential neighbourhoods.
The source said he could confirm at least 20 deaths, adding a rocket landed near his home.
Civil defence rescue members carry a wounded man in Eastern Ghouta on Tuesday [Anadolu]
Images posted by the Turkish news agency Anadolu showed members of the civil defence team trying to rescue people from the wreckage of the attacks in the town of Sabqa on Tuesday.
Eastern Ghouta has been under a government siege since 2013, and there are an estimated 400,000 people living in the area.
The news came as Paulo Pinheiro, head of the UN-mandated International Commission of Inquiry on Syria, announced on Tuesday his team is probing reports that weaponised chlorine may have been used on two recent attacks in Eastern Ghouta and Idlib province.
He described the recent air raids as "extremely troubling", adding the attacks make "a mockery of the so-called 'de-escalation zones'".
Pinheiro said the attacks on Eastern Ghouta involve "the international crimes of indiscriminate bombardment and deliberate starvation of the civilian population".
INSIDE STORY
Syria war crimes probe: Will anyone be charged?
SOURCE: AL JAZEERA AND NEWS AGENCIES
http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2018/...ebel-held-eastern-ghouta-180206121436971.html
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Rebel-held Eastern Ghouta has been under a government siege since 2013 [Anadolu]
MORE ON SYRIA'S CIVIL WAR
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The latest casualties on Tuesday bring to 78 the total number of deaths in the last 24 hours in the rebel-held area near Damascus, the UK-based war monitor said.
"Today there is no safe area at all," Siraj Mahmoud, head of the civil defence rescue service outside Damascus, told Reuters news agency.
"Right now, we have people under rubble, the targeting is ongoing, warplanes on residential neighbourhoods."
The Syrian Observatory said it was the highest number of deaths recorded in one day since attacks escalated six weeks ago. More than 335 people have been killed since then.
Syria, Russia escalate air raids on rebel-held areas
It warned the death toll could rise as bodies were still being pulled from the rubble and many of the 197 wounded were in critical condition.
In Damascus, the office of Russia's trade mission in Syria was bombed on Tuesday, according to its foreign ministry.
There were no reported casualties, though the building was heavily damaged by the blast, Russia's Tass news agency quoted the ministry as saying.
It didn't say who was responsible for the attack.
Syria's state SANA news agency reported at least three people were killed in shelling on Tuesday from rebel areas on parts of the old city of Damascus.
Ceasefire?
The UN mission in Syria issued a statement in Damascus on Tuesday calling for a month-long truce.
The halt would "enable the delivery of humanitarian aid and services, evacuation of the critically sick and wounded, and alleviation of people's suffering", the statement said.
A source from the civil defence inside Eastern Ghouta told Al Jazeera dozens of air raids hit several residential neighbourhoods.
The source said he could confirm at least 20 deaths, adding a rocket landed near his home.
Civil defence rescue members carry a wounded man in Eastern Ghouta on Tuesday [Anadolu]
Images posted by the Turkish news agency Anadolu showed members of the civil defence team trying to rescue people from the wreckage of the attacks in the town of Sabqa on Tuesday.
Eastern Ghouta has been under a government siege since 2013, and there are an estimated 400,000 people living in the area.
The news came as Paulo Pinheiro, head of the UN-mandated International Commission of Inquiry on Syria, announced on Tuesday his team is probing reports that weaponised chlorine may have been used on two recent attacks in Eastern Ghouta and Idlib province.
He described the recent air raids as "extremely troubling", adding the attacks make "a mockery of the so-called 'de-escalation zones'".
Pinheiro said the attacks on Eastern Ghouta involve "the international crimes of indiscriminate bombardment and deliberate starvation of the civilian population".
INSIDE STORY
Syria war crimes probe: Will anyone be charged?
SOURCE: AL JAZEERA AND NEWS AGENCIES
http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2018/...ebel-held-eastern-ghouta-180206121436971.html
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ANKARA: A deadly attack carried out by Iranian militias on Turkish troops deep inside Syria has cast renewed doubt on the survival of a de-escalation agreement meant to ease tensions between three of the main powers enmeshed in the long-running conflict.
The assault on the outpost in Idlib province, southwest of Aleppo city, on Monday night killed one Turkish soldier and injured five others. The Turkish military retaliated with rocket fire, but experts have told Arab News that the bloodshed could be a sign of further trouble to come.
Last year officials from Ankara, Tehran and Moscow agreed to set up a series of de-escalation zones in Syria that were supposed to reduce violence between anti-government insurgents and forces fighting in support of Syrian President Bashar Assad.
The UN backed the move but all three countries remain deeply involved in the conflict and Monday night’s attack was just the latest indication that their detente is in danger of collapsing into a new wave of violence.
Huseyin Bagci, a professor of international relations at Ankara’s Middle East Technical University, said the deal — struck in Kazakhstan’s capital Astana — was “still valid” but “the three guarantor countries should immediately meet and discuss the ongoing problems with each other.”
He anticipated more clashes between Iran’s proxy forces and Turkish troops in the coming weeks, as both powers seek to exert their influence over Idlib — a province controlled by the former Al-Qaeda affiliate group Hayat Tahrir Al-Sham.
The outpost that was attacked on Monday had only been established that morning. It is the fourth observation point the Turkish military has set up in Idlib, with a further eight still due to be built under the terms of the Astana deal, but its construction came at a particularly delicate time.
On Jan. 20, the Turkish military launched Operation Olive Branch against Kurdish fighters belonging to militias including the People’s Protection Units (YPG) stationed in the nearby Syrian district of Afrin. Ankara has since portrayed the offensive as a successful attempt to root out separatists threatening its sovereignty but Damascus fears Turkish troops are moving deeper into Syrian territory in an attempt to establish a permanent presence in the country.
The Syrian civil war has turned into a battleground for regional and international powers since it first began with a wave of civil unrest against the Assad regime in 2011. The regime responded to the peaceful protests in brutal fashion, arresting and killing thousands of its opponents and deliberately stoking the flames of an Islamist insurgency.
Under the guise of fighting terrorism and protecting one of its main allies, Iran has become increasingly involved in the war. There was further evidence of this close relationship after Monday night’s attack, with the Syrian army yesterday (Tuesday) deploying anti-aircraft missiles to the front lines in Aleppo and Idlib in an apparent warning to Ankara not to retaliate further.
Tehran has also urged Turkey to stop its military offensive against the Kurdish separatists, accusing it of breaching Syrian sovereignty and destabilizing the region.
Meanwhile, Russia still finds itself mired in the conflict almost three years after first launching airstrikes against opposition groups fighting the Assad regime. Last Saturday, one of its pilots blew himself up with a grenade to avoid being captured by insurgents after his plane was shot down over Idlib.
Timur Akhmetov, a researcher at the Moscow-backed Russian International Affairs Council, told Arab News that the latest clash between Turkey and Iranian-sponsored militias might yet develop into a major new fault-line in the war.
“It would not be unrealistic to expect confrontation between Turkey-backed groups and pro-Assad forces in the coming days. The decisive factor, however, will be the absence of Russian air support in any offensives against Turkish interests,” he said.
Turkish forces free village from PYD/PKK in Afrin
Hill in northern Afrin also cleared of terrorists during Operation Olive Branch
ANKARA/AFRIN, Syria
http://aa.com.tr/en/middle-east/turkish-forces-free-village-from-pyd-pkk-in-afrin/1056959
Turkish Armed Forces and Free Syrian Army (FSA) have liberated another village in Afrin, northwestern Syria, according to an Anadolu Agency correspondent on the ground.
Sheikh Horuz village as well as Hawouz hill in northern Afrin were cleared of PYD/PKK terrorists during ongoing Operation Olive Branch.
The Turkish forces and FSA have liberated a total of 40 zones, including 24 villages and 12 strategic mountains or hills since the onset of Operation Olive Branch.
Turkey on Jan. 20 launched Operation Olive Branch to remove PYD/PKK and Daesh terrorists from Afrin.
According to Turkish General Staff, the operation aims to establish security and stability along Turkish borders and the region as well as to protect the Syrian people from the oppression and cruelty of terrorists.
The operation is being carried out under the framework of Turkey’s rights based on international law, UN Security Council’s decisions, self-defense rights under the UN charter and respect for Syria's territorial integrity, the military said.
The military has also said that only terrorist targets are being destroyed and "utmost care" is being taken to not harm any civilians.
Afrin has been a major hideout for the PYD/PKK since July 2012 when the Assad regime in Syria left the city to the terror group without putting up a fight.
ANKARA: A deadly attack carried out by Iranian militias on Turkish troops deep inside Syria has cast renewed doubt on the survival of a de-escalation agreement meant to ease tensions between three of the main powers enmeshed in the long-running conflict.
The assault on the outpost in Idlib province, southwest of Aleppo city, on Monday night killed one Turkish soldier and injured five others. The Turkish military retaliated with rocket fire, but experts have told Arab News that the bloodshed could be a sign of further trouble to come.
Last year officials from Ankara, Tehran and Moscow agreed to set up a series of de-escalation zones in Syria that were supposed to reduce violence between anti-government insurgents and forces fighting in support of Syrian President Bashar Assad.
The UN backed the move but all three countries remain deeply involved in the conflict and Monday night’s attack was just the latest indication that their detente is in danger of collapsing into a new wave of violence.
Huseyin Bagci, a professor of international relations at Ankara’s Middle East Technical University, said the deal — struck in Kazakhstan’s capital Astana — was “still valid” but “the three guarantor countries should immediately meet and discuss the ongoing problems with each other.”
He anticipated more clashes between Iran’s proxy forces and Turkish troops in the coming weeks, as both powers seek to exert their influence over Idlib — a province controlled by the former Al-Qaeda affiliate group Hayat Tahrir Al-Sham.
The outpost that was attacked on Monday had only been established that morning. It is the fourth observation point the Turkish military has set up in Idlib, with a further eight still due to be built under the terms of the Astana deal, but its construction came at a particularly delicate time.
On Jan. 20, the Turkish military launched Operation Olive Branch against Kurdish fighters belonging to militias including the People’s Protection Units (YPG) stationed in the nearby Syrian district of Afrin. Ankara has since portrayed the offensive as a successful attempt to root out separatists threatening its sovereignty but Damascus fears Turkish troops are moving deeper into Syrian territory in an attempt to establish a permanent presence in the country.
The Syrian civil war has turned into a battleground for regional and international powers since it first began with a wave of civil unrest against the Assad regime in 2011. The regime responded to the peaceful protests in brutal fashion, arresting and killing thousands of its opponents and deliberately stoking the flames of an Islamist insurgency.
Under the guise of fighting terrorism and protecting one of its main allies, Iran has become increasingly involved in the war. There was further evidence of this close relationship after Monday night’s attack, with the Syrian army yesterday (Tuesday) deploying anti-aircraft missiles to the front lines in Aleppo and Idlib in an apparent warning to Ankara not to retaliate further.
Tehran has also urged Turkey to stop its military offensive against the Kurdish separatists, accusing it of breaching Syrian sovereignty and destabilizing the region.
Meanwhile, Russia still finds itself mired in the conflict almost three years after first launching airstrikes against opposition groups fighting the Assad regime. Last Saturday, one of its pilots blew himself up with a grenade to avoid being captured by insurgents after his plane was shot down over Idlib.
Timur Akhmetov, a researcher at the Moscow-backed Russian International Affairs Council, told Arab News that the latest clash between Turkey and Iranian-sponsored militias might yet develop into a major new fault-line in the war.
“It would not be unrealistic to expect confrontation between Turkey-backed groups and pro-Assad forces in the coming days. The decisive factor, however, will be the absence of Russian air support in any offensives against Turkish interests,” he said.
Turkish forces free village from PYD/PKK in Afrin
Hill in northern Afrin also cleared of terrorists during Operation Olive Branch
ANKARA/AFRIN, Syria
http://aa.com.tr/en/middle-east/turkish-forces-free-village-from-pyd-pkk-in-afrin/1056959
Turkish Armed Forces and Free Syrian Army (FSA) have liberated another village in Afrin, northwestern Syria, according to an Anadolu Agency correspondent on the ground.
Sheikh Horuz village as well as Hawouz hill in northern Afrin were cleared of PYD/PKK terrorists during ongoing Operation Olive Branch.
The Turkish forces and FSA have liberated a total of 40 zones, including 24 villages and 12 strategic mountains or hills since the onset of Operation Olive Branch.
Turkey on Jan. 20 launched Operation Olive Branch to remove PYD/PKK and Daesh terrorists from Afrin.
According to Turkish General Staff, the operation aims to establish security and stability along Turkish borders and the region as well as to protect the Syrian people from the oppression and cruelty of terrorists.
The operation is being carried out under the framework of Turkey’s rights based on international law, UN Security Council’s decisions, self-defense rights under the UN charter and respect for Syria's territorial integrity, the military said.
The military has also said that only terrorist targets are being destroyed and "utmost care" is being taken to not harm any civilians.
Afrin has been a major hideout for the PYD/PKK since July 2012 when the Assad regime in Syria left the city to the terror group without putting up a fight.
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Russian surprise for terrorists:
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Living Under Assad’s Siege
Eastern Ghouta has been turned into a concentration camp by the Assad regime. Mr. Assad has perfected a system of political nihilism, which wipes out people who oppose it and enslaves those who acquiesce and submit. Even after five years of siege and bombardment, the residents are holding on to human dignity, mourning each death, not turning callous in the face of its familiarity.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/07/...tml?mtrref=www.facebook.com&assetType=opinion
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JISREEN: A fourth consecutive day of heavy regime bombing raids on the rebel-held enclave of Eastern Ghouta near Damascus killed 22 on Thursday, a monitor said.
The civilian toll was first reported at nine on Thursday morning but almost immediately began to rise, mirroring previous bloody days in the besieged district.
Wednesday's strikes hit at least six different locations in Eastern Ghouta, said the head of the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, Rami Abdel Rahman.
The highest toll was in the town of Jisreen, where eight civilians were killed.
An AFP correspondent there said the strikes hit near a school, a market and a mosque.
Vegetable stalls in the market were overturned and damaged, and a motionless body lay outside the mosque.
Rescue teams rushed to the district and pulled three children and a woman out of the rubble.
Moayad al-Hafi, a rescue worker, said his team was hit in a double-tap strike as they were pulling bodies out in Jisreen.
"As we were pulling out the children and the dead from under the rubble, they targeted us with five rockets -- directly targeting us," said Hafi, 24.
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DAMASCUS: Syrian state media confirmed Thursday that dozens of fighters were killed in US-led coalition strikes overnight but appeared to deny the victims were soldiers.
“In a new aggression and in an attempt to support terrorism, coalition forces targeted popular forces” in the eastern province of Deir Ezzor, state television said, apparently referring to paramilitary groups allied to the regime.
According to a US military official, at least 100 pro-regime fighters were killed in what the US Central Command said were retaliatory strikes.
State media acknowledged that what it termed “popular forces” were targeting the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces, which are supported by the coalition and host its advisers on its bases.
The state news agency SANA said the fighters hit by the coalition were “battling Daesh terrorist and SDF groups,” referring to the Daesh jihadist group and the Kurdish-dominated militia respectively.
JISREEN: A fourth consecutive day of heavy regime bombing raids on the rebel-held enclave of Eastern Ghouta near Damascus killed 22 on Thursday, a monitor said.
The civilian toll was first reported at nine on Thursday morning but almost immediately began to rise, mirroring previous bloody days in the besieged district.
Wednesday's strikes hit at least six different locations in Eastern Ghouta, said the head of the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, Rami Abdel Rahman.
The highest toll was in the town of Jisreen, where eight civilians were killed.
An AFP correspondent there said the strikes hit near a school, a market and a mosque.
Vegetable stalls in the market were overturned and damaged, and a motionless body lay outside the mosque.
Rescue teams rushed to the district and pulled three children and a woman out of the rubble.
Moayad al-Hafi, a rescue worker, said his team was hit in a double-tap strike as they were pulling bodies out in Jisreen.
"As we were pulling out the children and the dead from under the rubble, they targeted us with five rockets -- directly targeting us," said Hafi, 24.
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http://www.arabnews.com/node/1241846/middle-east
DAMASCUS: Syrian state media confirmed Thursday that dozens of fighters were killed in US-led coalition strikes overnight but appeared to deny the victims were soldiers.
“In a new aggression and in an attempt to support terrorism, coalition forces targeted popular forces” in the eastern province of Deir Ezzor, state television said, apparently referring to paramilitary groups allied to the regime.
According to a US military official, at least 100 pro-regime fighters were killed in what the US Central Command said were retaliatory strikes.
State media acknowledged that what it termed “popular forces” were targeting the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces, which are supported by the coalition and host its advisers on its bases.
The state news agency SANA said the fighters hit by the coalition were “battling Daesh terrorist and SDF groups,” referring to the Daesh jihadist group and the Kurdish-dominated militia respectively.
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If it's not non-Muslims killing Muslims the Pakistanis here don't seem to care about bombed mosques and targeted civilians in faraway places.
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They call it "seige" after they've supported terrorists and those terrorists got cleared out, now they want nice treatment from their govt. This is the same crap some sunnis did in Iraq- they supported ISIS as retaliatioin against the central govt and when ISIS got vanquished they started complaining they were being "mistreated",but they conveniently forgot when they were actively supporting ISIS and other terrorists against their "government".
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US airstrikes kill 15 civilians in Syria's Dayr al-Zawr
The file photo taken by the US Air Forces Central Command shows a pair of US Air Force F-15E warplanes flying over northern Iraq after conducting airstrikes in Syria. (Via AFP)
Fresh air raids conducted by the US have claimed the lives of 15 civilians, including seven women, in Syria’s eastern Dayr al-Zawr Province.
Civil sources told Syria's official SANA news agency on Thursday that US warplanes had targeted several houses in the town of al-Sha’afa in eastern Dayr al-Zawr.
The deadly attacks also injured a number of people, some critically, and caused massive damage to their properties, according to the sources.
Meanwhile, the so-called Syrian Observatory for Human Rights confirmed the fatal strikes, but put the death toll at 13.
The Daesh Takfiri terrorist group still holds patches of the desert on either side of the Euphrates River in the oil-rich Dayr al-Zawr Province.
The US and its allies have been bombarding what they call Daesh positions inside Syria since September 2014 without any authorization from the Damascus government or a UN mandate.
The strikes, however, have on many occasions resulted in civilian casualties and failed to fulfill their declared aim of countering terrorism.
The Syrian Foreign Ministry has on several occasions written to the UN, complaining that the US was flagrantly violating the sovereignty of Syria by targeting residential neighborhoods.
Source: PressTV
The file photo taken by the US Air Forces Central Command shows a pair of US Air Force F-15E warplanes flying over northern Iraq after conducting airstrikes in Syria. (Via AFP)
Fresh air raids conducted by the US have claimed the lives of 15 civilians, including seven women, in Syria’s eastern Dayr al-Zawr Province.
Civil sources told Syria's official SANA news agency on Thursday that US warplanes had targeted several houses in the town of al-Sha’afa in eastern Dayr al-Zawr.
The deadly attacks also injured a number of people, some critically, and caused massive damage to their properties, according to the sources.
Meanwhile, the so-called Syrian Observatory for Human Rights confirmed the fatal strikes, but put the death toll at 13.
The Daesh Takfiri terrorist group still holds patches of the desert on either side of the Euphrates River in the oil-rich Dayr al-Zawr Province.
The US and its allies have been bombarding what they call Daesh positions inside Syria since September 2014 without any authorization from the Damascus government or a UN mandate.
The strikes, however, have on many occasions resulted in civilian casualties and failed to fulfill their declared aim of countering terrorism.
The Syrian Foreign Ministry has on several occasions written to the UN, complaining that the US was flagrantly violating the sovereignty of Syria by targeting residential neighborhoods.
Source: PressTV
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