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'Enemy' rockets hit Hama, Aleppo army positions: Syrian state TV
Blasts reportedly hit Hama and Aleppo countryside in what a military source called 'a new aggression'.

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Blasts were reported in the Hama countryside on Sunday night [Al Jazeera]
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Syrian state TV says that rockets have struck military positions in the countryside of Hama and Aleppo provinces.

A military source was quoted as saying by SANA that the "new aggression" by Syria's enemies had taken place at around 10:30pm (19:30 GMT) on Sunday.

The state TV outlet aired images of what it said was the explosions. It had earlier reported that successive blasts were heard in the Hama and Aleppo countryside and that authorities were investigating the cause.

SANA did not say who was responsible for the attacks.

Reporting from Aleppo, Al Jazeera's Maan al-Khoder called the strikes "one of the strongest attacks on the military".

"Civilians in Aleppo described hearing a huge explosion and their description is in line with what the state is saying," he said.

An official death tally was not yet given.

An intelligence source told Reuters news agency it appeared multiple missile attacks hit command centres for "Iranian-backed militias" fighting alongside forces loyal to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.

Israel has previously targeted Iranian-backed militia outposts in Syria.

Andrew Tabler, a Syria expert at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, said Israeli attacks targeting Iranian bases in Syria have continued for some time now.

"It seems as if it's an Israeli strike. It's yet to be confirmed but the targets in recent history of Israeli bombing inside of Syria would suggest that that's who's responsible," he told Al Jazeera.

"These are mixed bases for Iran and regime forces inside Syria, Iranian forces are spread out throughout the country.

"They are the main backers of Assad on the ground and Israel has launched a campaign to target those assets as they spread throughout the country."

Reporting from Beirut, Lebanon, Al Jazeera's Zeina Khodr said the fact that Syrian state media are not blaming anyone for the strikes sets it apart from previous attacks.

"This is quite different than in the past when there have been similar strikes, the Syrian government does not shy away from pointing the finger at Israel, which is believed to be behind these latest strikes," Khodr said.

Missiles struck a Syrian airbase in Homs earlier this month, with Russia and Syriablaming Israel for that attack. Israel neither confirmed nor denied that raid.

SOURCE: AL JAZEERA AND NEWS AGENCIES

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Syria war: 'Iranian personnel among dozens dead' in missile attacks
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Missiles hit a number of military sites in northern Syria on Sunday night, state media say, with unconfirmed reports of dozens of fatalities.

The Syrian military said facilities in Hama and Aleppo provinces were struck.

It did not immediately report any casualties. But a UK-based monitoring group said 26 pro-government fighters were killed, most of them Iranians.

It is not known who was behind the attacks. Western nations and Israel have previously hit sites in Syria.

Earlier this month, the US, UK and France bombed three facilities they said were associated with the Syrian government's alleged chemical weapons programme.

Israel is meanwhile alleged to have hit an airbase in Homs province reportedly serving as an Iranian drone command centre and containing an advanced Iranian air defence system.

Seven Iranian soldiers were among 14 military personnel killed in that attack.

Israel has repeatedly vowed to stop its arch-enemy Iran from strengthening its military presence in Syria, Iran's closest ally.

A Syrian military source cited by the official Sana news agency said only that the sites targeted on Sunday night were "exposed… to a new aggression".

The source added that the strikes came after terrorist organisations had suffered defeats in the countryside of the capital, Damascus, an apparent reference to the recent recapture of the Eastern Ghouta region from rebel groups.

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR), a UK-based monitoring group, said the attack appeared to have targeted a depot for surface-to-surface missiles at the 47th Brigade military base, south of the city of Hama.

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The pro-opposition Orient News website also reported that large explosions were seen coming from what were believed to be ammunition caches at the base.

Missiles are also reported to have hit locations in the Salhab area, west of Hama city, and the area surrounding Nairab military airport, which is close to the city of Aleppo and its international airport.

However, Iran's Tasnim news agency cited the commander of an Iranian-backed Afghan militia as denying that its base near Aleppo was struck.

The SOHR cited its sources as saying 26 pro-government fighters were killed in the strikes. Four were Syrian and the others foreigners, a vast majority of whom were Iranians, it said.

It also noted that the death toll might rise as 60 fighters were wounded, some of them seriously, and several others were missing.

The SOHR said that given the nature of the targets, the attacks were likely to have been carried out by Israel.

But Israeli Intelligence Minister Yisrael Katz said on Monday morning that he was "not aware" of the strikes.

"All the violence and instability in Syria is the result of Iran's attempts to establish a military presence there. Israel will not allow the opening of a northern front in Syria," he told Israel's Army Radio
 
Israel fighting anti-Assad forces in the Syrian-held Golan:



Following intensive fighting at Hader on Friday, on the Syrian-held section of Mount Hermon, which resulted in dozens of casualties, the IDF said it is willing to provide assistance and prevent the capture of the Druse village by anti-regime forces...

...The IDF said it “is ready and prepared to assist the residents of the village and will prevent the harming or the conquering of the village of Hader due to our deep commitment to the Druse population.” This statement reflects a desire to deter Syrian rebels and jihadist groups from harming the Druse in Syria near the Golan...

...“They [the rebels] are being attacked by Assad’s forces in the Bayt Jinn enclave,” Zehavi says.

She says that the current situation “proves Israel is rescuing human lives and it doesn’t matter if they are Shia or Sunni [or Druse].” She points out that Hader has residents who support Hezbollah, and because of the Assad regime’s presence there are also contacts with Iranian forces in Syria.

The statement by Israel “reflects an unwillingness of Israel to take sides in this conflict. So we were blamed in the past for helping rebels, and now [with this] bold announcement [that] we will help a Druse village [which has] sided with the Assad regime, no one can say we help one side or another,” says Zehavi...
 
Feel sorry for druze , but Isreali army compose of druze soldiers. And when arab comes to revenge they feel no mercy for there opponent .
 
Feel sorry for druze , but Isreali army compose of druze soldiers. And when arab comes to revenge they feel no mercy for there opponent .
They are lier.
Deruz population are with Syrian Government.
 
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A Sukhoi Su-24 fighter jet takes off from the Hmeymim air base near Latakia, Syria.(REUTERS File Photo)

A Russian fighter jet crashed after taking off from an airbase in Syria on Thursday, killing both pilots, Moscow’s defence ministry said in a statement carried by news agencies.

“As it was climbing after taking off from the Hmeimim airbase, the Russian fighter Su-30SM crashed into the Mediterranean Sea. Two pilots, who fought until the last minute to save the plane, died, according to reports from the scene,” the statement said.

The ministry said the plane had not come under fire, adding that “according to preliminary information, the reason for the crash could have been a bird falling into the engine”.

The accident brings Russia’s official military losses in Syria to 86.

The most recent acknowledged military loss came when a transport plane crashed on landing at the Hmeimim airbase in March, killing all 39 people on board.

But Russian nationals are regularly reported to be serving as paid mercenaries in Syria and taking on dangerous missions that often lead to casualties.


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Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said it was not clear if the airstrikes in the Hassakeh province were carried out by the US-led coalition or the Iraqi air force.
Updated: May 01, 2018 23:03 IST

Airstrikes killed at least 23 civilians on Tuesday in one of the last pockets of Islamic State-controlled territory in Syria, according to Syrian state media and an opposition-linked monitoring group, as US-backed forces in the area announced they have resumed their campaign against the extremists.

The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said it was not clear if the airstrikes in the Hassakeh province were carried out by the US-led coalition or the Iraqi air force. It said the strikes killed 10 children, six women and seven elderly people.

The state-run Syrian News Agency said 25 civilians were killed in the airstrikes south of the town of Shadadi, blaming the US-led coalition.

The strikes took place in an area where the US-backed and Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces are battling IS.

Lelwa Abdullah, an SDF spokeswoman in the adjacent Deir el-Zour province, said Tuesday the final phase of a large operation against IS in eastern Syria has begun. She said the SDF will “liberate those areas and secure the Syrian-Iraqi border and end the IS presence in eastern Syria once and for all.”

The SDF had redeployed hundreds of its forces to western Syria after Turkish troops attacked the Kurdish-held Afrin enclave earlier this year, effectively putting operations against IS on hold.

Abdullah said IS attacks have increased in recent weeks in parts of eastern Syria near the border with Iraq as the extremist group seeks to regroup. She said the clearing operations will take place with the help of the U.S.-led coalition and Iraqi forces across the border.

Elsewhere in Syria on Tuesday, more than three dozen Syrians held for years by al-Qaida-linked insurgents in the country’s northwest were released as part of a deal to hand over areas around Damascus to the government, state media reported.

State-run Al-Ikhbariya TV broadcast images of the released men, women, children, who arrived by bus at a government-controlled checkpoint in Aleppo province. Many were in tears, and they could be seen kissing and hugging Syrian soldiers.

The captives had been held by the insurgents in northern Syria since 2015. It is the latest in a series of evacuation deals for areas around the capital that have been besieged for years and subjected to heavy bombardment by government forces.

The UN and rights groups have criticised the deals, saying they amount to forced displacement.

The latest deal concerns Yarmouk, a Palestinian refugee camp that was a built-up residential area before the civil war. IS militants still control parts of the camp and a neighboring area, where they are battling government forces.

The 42 people freed today are the first batch of more than 80 to be released. Under the deal, fighters from the al-Qaida-linked Hayat Tahrir al-Sham group will withdraw from Yarmouk, while about 5,000 people in Foua and Kfraya, two northwestern villages besieged by insurgents, will be allowed to relocate to government-held areas.

Al-Ikhbariya said nearly 20 wounded or ill from the two besieged villages were evacuated Tuesday. But the evacuation has apparently stalled amid security concerns, with the residents asking that they all be evacuated together instead of in batches.

The Observatory said five buses carrying around 200 insurgents from Yarmouk arrived at the handover area south of Aleppo.

The UN has warned of “catastrophic consequences” for the remaining inhabitants of Yarmouk as the fighting continues.

The camp was established in 1957 for Palestinians who fled the 1948 war with Israel, and later evolved into a densely populated urban neighborhood that was home to tens of thousands of Palestinians and Syrians.

It has seen heavy fighting since the early days of the seven-year-old civil war, and IS pushed into the district in 2015.

“Yarmouk and its inhabitants have endured indescribable pain and suffering over years of conflict,” Pierre Krähenbühl, the head of the U.N. agency for Palestinian refugees, said last week.

The latest fighting has displaced around 5,000 civilians from Yarmouk into the neighboring area of Yalda, the UN said. It’s not clear how many civilians remain in Yarmouk.

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Airstrikes killed at least 23 civilians on Tuesday in one of the last pockets of Islamic State-controlled territory in Syria, according to Syrian state media and an opposition-linked monitoring group, as US-backed forces in the area announced they have resumed their campaign against the extremists.

Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said it was not clear if the airstrikes in the Hassakeh province were carried out by the US-led coalition or the Iraqi air force. It said the strikes killed 23 .

The state-run Syrian News Agency said 25 civilians were killed in the airstrikes south of the town of Shadadi, blaming the US-led coalition.

The strikes took place in an area where the US-backed and Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces are battling IS.

Lelwa Abdullah, an SDF spokeswoman in the adjacent Deir el-Zour province, said Tuesday the final phase of a large operation against IS in eastern Syria has begun. She said the SDF will “liberate those areas and secure the Syrian-Iraqi border and end the IS presence in eastern Syria once and for all.”

The SDF had redeployed hundreds of its forces to western Syria after Turkish troops attacked the Kurdish-held Afrin enclave earlier this year, effectively putting operations against IS on hold.

Abdullah said IS attacks have increased in recent weeks in parts of eastern Syria near the border with Iraq as the extremist group seeks to regroup. She said the clearing operations will take place with the help of the U.S.-led coalition and Iraqi forces across the border.

Elsewhere in Syria on Tuesday, more than three dozen Syrians held for years by al-Qaida-linked insurgents in the country’s northwest were released as part of a deal to hand over areas around Damascus to the government, state media reported.

State-run Al-Ikhbariya TV broadcast images of the released men, women, children, who arrived by bus at a government-controlled checkpoint in Aleppo province. Many were in tears, and they could be seen kissing and hugging Syrian soldiers.

The captives had been held by the insurgents in northern Syria since 2015. It is the latest in a series of evacuation deals for areas around the capital that have been besieged for years and subjected to heavy bombardment by government forces.

The UN and rights groups have criticised the deals, saying they amount to forced displacement.

The latest deal concerns Yarmouk, a Palestinian refugee camp that was a built-up residential area before the civil war. IS militants still control parts of the camp and a neighboring area, where they are battling government forces.

The 42 people freed today are the first batch of more than 80 to be released. Under the deal, fighters from the al-Qaida-linked Hayat Tahrir al-Sham group will withdraw from Yarmouk, while about 5,000 people in Foua and Kfraya, two northwestern villages besieged by insurgents, will be allowed to relocate to government-held areas.

Al-Ikhbariya said nearly 20 wounded or ill from the two besieged villages were evacuated Tuesday. But the evacuation has apparently stalled amid security concerns, with the residents asking that they all be evacuated together instead of in batches.

The Observatory said five buses carrying around 200 insurgents from Yarmouk arrived at the handover area south of Aleppo.

The UN has warned of “catastrophic consequences” for the remaining inhabitants of Yarmouk as the fighting continues.

The camp was established in 1957 for Palestinians who fled the 1948 war with Israel, and later evolved into a densely populated urban neighborhood that was home to tens of thousands of Palestinians and Syrians.

It has seen heavy fighting since the early days of the seven-year-old civil war, and IS pushed into the district in 2015.

“Yarmouk and its inhabitants have endured indescribable pain and suffering over years of conflict,” Pierre Krähenbühl, the head of the U.N. agency for Palestinian refugees, said last week.

The latest fighting has displaced around 5,000 civilians from Yarmouk into the neighboring area of Yalda, the UN said. It’s not clear how many civilians remain in Yarmouk.
 
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Soldiers loyal to Syria’s President Bashar Assad forces are deployed at Al-Qadam area near Yarmouk Palestinian camp in Damascus. Assad has focused on dislodging rebels from their remaining besieged pockets since driving them from eastern Ghouta last month after a fierce offensive. (Reuters)

BEIRUT: Syrian rebels began pulling out of an enclave they have surrendered in south Damascus on Thursday, but a few fighters in another besieged area near Homs shelled government areas after their groups agreed to quit.
The enclaves in south Damascus and near Homs are the only two besieged areas still held by rebels, though they still control large tracts of northwest and southwest Syria, lying along its international borders, which are not surrounded by the army.

Syrian President Bashar Assad has focused on dislodging rebels from their remaining besieged pockets since driving them from eastern Ghouta last month after a fierce offensive. Syrian state television showed footage of buses arriving at Beit Sahm, driving through narrow streets surrounded by soldiers and with concrete buildings above showing scars of war. It later reported that the first batch of buses had departed, carrying fighters and their families from the area. Some 5,000 fighters and their family members are expected to leave Beit Sahm, Babila and Yalda neighborhoods for the opposition areas in northern Syria, it reported, following an earlier group which left the enclave on Monday.

Daesh fighters holding another part of the same enclave are still fighting after weeks of intense bombardment in the area of Al-Hajjar Al-Aswad and Yarmouk Palestinian refugee camp.

On Wednesday, insurgents in the biggest of the remaining besieged areas, located between the cities of Hama and Homs around the towns of Rastan, Talbiseh and Houla, also agreed to surrender.

However, a small number of them rejected the deal and shelled government areas late on Wednesday and early on Thursday, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights war monitor and two local sources said.

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ANKARA

A Turkish soldier was martyred in Syria’s northwestern Afrin region on Thursday during the military’s sweep and clear activities, a statement said.

In the statement, the Turkish General Staff said the soldier was martyred in Afrin region when an improvised explosive detonated during the military’s sweep and clear activities.

Turkey launched Operation Olive Branch on Jan. 20 to clear YPG/PKK and Daesh terrorist groups from Afrin amid growing threats from the region. On March 18, Turkish-backed troops liberated Afrin town center, which had been a major hideout for the YPG/PKK since 2012.

After liberating the area from the terror group, Turkish military have also been continuing efforts to search and destroy hand-made explosives and mines planted by the YPG/PKK terrorists.

According to the Turkish General Staff, Operation Olive Branch was aimed at establishing security and stability along Turkey's borders and the region as well as protecting Syrians from terrorist cruelty and oppression.

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1,285 terrorists neutralized in operations, including 7 terrorists in most wanted category

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ERZURUM, Turkey

A total of 1,285 YPG/PKK terrorists in Turkey and abroad were neutralized in April including senior figures of terror groups, according to data compiled by Anadolu Agency.

Turkish authorities often use the word "neutralized" in their statements to imply that the terrorists in question either surrendered or were killed or captured.

From April 1-30, 15 security personnel and one civilian were martyred in terror attacks.

In the same period, 210 terror suspects were arrested as part of operations against PKK in Turkish cities. Of them 80 were remanded in custody.

So-called senior figures of the terror group were also neutralized in eastern, southern and southeastern Turkey during the operations.

Medeni Sayilgan, Seyithan Sinet and Yusuf Sek who were on the "red list”, Eyup Celik on "green list", Osman Ozel on the "blue list", Mehmet Reber Cetin and Masallah Malazgirt on the "grey list” were neutralized.

The wanted list is divided into five color-coded categories, with red as the most wanted, followed by blue, green, orange and grey.

Operation Olive Branch, which was launched by Turkey on Jan. 20 to clear YPG/PKK-Daesh terrorists from Afrin in northwestern Syria is also ongoing.

In April, 1,029 terrorists were neutralized as part of the operation.

Turkish army provides the necessary support to provide humanitarian aid to residents and return normalcy to the area.

In its more than 30-year terror campaign against Turkey, the PKK -- listed as a terrorist organization by Turkey, the U.S. and the EU -- has been responsible for the death of some 40,000 people, including those of women and children.

The PYD/YPG are Syrian branches of the terrorist PKK and the focus of Turkey's successful counter-terrorist Operation Olive Branch in Afrin, Syria, near the border with Turkey.

Reporting by Yunus Okur:Writing by Fatih Hafiz Mehmet

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By Burak Karacaoglu and Esref Musa

IDLIB, Syria

At least four people were killed and 10 others injured by a car bomb that rocked a district of Syria’s northwestern Idlib province on Thursday, according to the White Helmets, a civil defense agency.

The car bomb detonated outside an aid organization in Idlib’s Dana district, Mustafa Haj Yusuf, director of the White Helmets in Idlib, told Anadolu Agency.

“The attack left four people dead, including one woman, and 10 others injured,” Yusuf said.

The injured were reportedly taken to nearby field hospitals.

The bombing occurred outside an office of the U.S.-based International Rescue Committee, which has yet to comment on the incident.

Located in northern Syria near the Turkish border, Idlib was declared a "de-escalation zone" last May, in which acts of aggression are expressly forbidden.

Syria has only just begun to emerge from a devastating conflict that began in 2011 when the Assad regime cracked down on demonstrators with unexpected ferocity.

UN officials say hundreds of thousands of people have been killed in the conflict.

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By Elena Teslova

MOSCOW

A Russian Su-30SM fighter jet has crashed in Syria, killing two pilots, according to the Defense Ministry on Thursday.

"On May 3, at about 0945 Moscow time [1245GMT], during [the warplane’s] climb after take-off from Hmeimim air base over the Mediterranean Sea, Russian fighter jet Su-30SM crashed.

Both pilots died on the spot, the statement, released by the ministry, added.

According to a preliminary probe, a bird stuck in the plane's engine was said to have caused the crash; there was no fire in the incident, it said.

This is the seventh aircraft Russia has lost in Syria since the beginning of its presence in the country in 2015. Four helicopters were downed and two crashed because of technical malfunction.

Number of Russian servicemen who died in Syria is now said to be over 100.
 
Feel sorry for druze , but Isreali army compose of druze soldiers. And when arab comes to revenge they feel no mercy for there opponent .
Don't worry. Strong Arab (Egypt, KSA, UAE) countries are in good relations with Israel. Failed states who can only barrel bomb helpless peasants can't do anything to Israel.

 
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