Syrian Civil War (Graphic Photos/Vid Not Allowed)
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Iranian troops in Lattakia? I bet they protect Alawite women against Sunni extremists, while their Alawite husbands fighting in the front.
Assad, the proxy of Iran, your end is near.
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So why are you not in Syria fighting for the rebels ? You prefer the good old West ehh ?
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Me? Prefer what? Elaborate.
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Prefer the good old west means you like the way things are in EU. Why are you not joining the rebels ?
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Assad airstrikes killed 136 people, including 7 women, 14 children
Syrian air force raids on Saturday killed at least 136 civilians, including 7 women and 14 children, as government extended its intense aerial campaign against rebel-held areas throughout Syria mostly in in the northern province of Aleppo, a monitoring group said.
The first air force raid on a market in ISIS-hled town of al-Bab killed at least 51 people.
The strike on the town northeast of Aleppo, used barrel bombs, which are steel drums full of shrapnel and explosives, the Syrian Network for Human Rights said.
Dozens of people were also wounded in the attack, according to the monitoring group. The town has been the focus of several heavy bombardments by the military since late last year.
A second Syrian air force raid in a rebel-held al-Shaar neighborhood part of Aleppo killed at least 9 civilians on Saturday, SNHR said.
The third barrel bomb attack on al-Ferdous neighborhood killed at least 9 people according to the Network.
Also, 19 civilians were killed in missile attack on Billion village in Idlib province.
In northeast Syria, at least 8 people killed in airstrike on Islamic State held-town of al-Shaddadi town in Hasakah province.
The United Nations strongly condemned the bombing. Staffan de Mistura, the UN's special envoy for Syria, said it was "totally unacceptable that the Syrian air force attacks its own territory in an indiscriminate way, killing its own citizens, as it brutally happened today in Aleppo."
"The use of barrel bombs must stop," he added.
Assad airstrikes killed 136 people, including 7 women, 14 children SYRIA NEWS | ZAMAN ALWSL
Report: Fuel tank explodes in Syrian clinic, killing 25
BEIRUT: Syrian state television is reporting that a fuel tank exploded inside a clinic in the predominantly Kurdish northeastern town of Qamishli, killing at least 25 people, including children.
The report said the explosion Sunday also wounded 30.
Juan Mohammad, a Kurdish official in the nearby city of Hassakeh, said the explosion happened as the clinic was packed with children who were brought to get vaccinated against polio.
Mohammed said many people were killed and wounded, adding that the cause of the explosion was still not clear.
The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the fire killed and wounded dozens of people.
Report: Fuel tank explodes in Syrian clinic, killing 25 | News , Middle East | THE DAILY STAR
I dont live in EU, and I am not pro-rebel. I am just anti-Assad.
Syrian air force raids on Saturday killed at least 136 civilians, including 7 women and 14 children, as government extended its intense aerial campaign against rebel-held areas throughout Syria mostly in in the northern province of Aleppo, a monitoring group said.
The first air force raid on a market in ISIS-hled town of al-Bab killed at least 51 people.
The strike on the town northeast of Aleppo, used barrel bombs, which are steel drums full of shrapnel and explosives, the Syrian Network for Human Rights said.
Dozens of people were also wounded in the attack, according to the monitoring group. The town has been the focus of several heavy bombardments by the military since late last year.
A second Syrian air force raid in a rebel-held al-Shaar neighborhood part of Aleppo killed at least 9 civilians on Saturday, SNHR said.
The third barrel bomb attack on al-Ferdous neighborhood killed at least 9 people according to the Network.
Also, 19 civilians were killed in missile attack on Billion village in Idlib province.
In northeast Syria, at least 8 people killed in airstrike on Islamic State held-town of al-Shaddadi town in Hasakah province.
The United Nations strongly condemned the bombing. Staffan de Mistura, the UN's special envoy for Syria, said it was "totally unacceptable that the Syrian air force attacks its own territory in an indiscriminate way, killing its own citizens, as it brutally happened today in Aleppo."
"The use of barrel bombs must stop," he added.
Assad airstrikes killed 136 people, including 7 women, 14 children SYRIA NEWS | ZAMAN ALWSL
Report: Fuel tank explodes in Syrian clinic, killing 25
BEIRUT: Syrian state television is reporting that a fuel tank exploded inside a clinic in the predominantly Kurdish northeastern town of Qamishli, killing at least 25 people, including children.
The report said the explosion Sunday also wounded 30.
Juan Mohammad, a Kurdish official in the nearby city of Hassakeh, said the explosion happened as the clinic was packed with children who were brought to get vaccinated against polio.
Mohammed said many people were killed and wounded, adding that the cause of the explosion was still not clear.
The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the fire killed and wounded dozens of people.
Report: Fuel tank explodes in Syrian clinic, killing 25 | News , Middle East | THE DAILY STAR
I dont live in EU, and I am not pro-rebel. I am just anti-Assad.
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You are embarrassing yourself by quoting that lunatic aka markito guy. His reputaion has went down to the toilet for a while now.
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Assad tortures, beheads, starves, gasses, barrel bombs people by tens of thousands. How u can say they are any better than IS? And how its "trolling"?
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Syria regime revenues shrink as losses mount
With most of its natural and mineral resources having fallen under rebel control, Syrian state revenues have shrunk, leaving the government dependent on unstable sources of income for its survival.
Four years of conflict have decimated the state coffers. Now the government’s only revenues are drawn from dwindling customs and income taxes, heavily bolstered by lines of credit from key regime backer Iran.
With the rise of the ISIS jihadi group, the regime has also lost control over swaths of vital resources – with two phosphate mines among its most recent losses. According to local activists and the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a Britain-based group that monitors the conflict, ISIS last weekend seized Sharqiya and Khneifess, 50 kilometers southwest of the ancient city of Palmyra in central Syria. Both sites were run by the state and accounted for much of the regime’s last remaining exports.
An Oil Ministry official said Sharqiya produced at least 3 million tons of phosphate a year and Khneifess generated 850,000 tons. Before the war broke out in 2011, Syria was the fifth-largest phosphate exporter in the world, mainly selling to Lebanon, Romania and Greece. In the first quarter of 2015, Syria sold 408,000 tons of phosphate in total, on the domestic market and abroad, according to the ministry. Phosphate sales raised some $39 million, with exports accounting for all but $4 million.
Already this year’s exports have less than halved from the 988,000 tons sold in the first three months of 2011 that brought in $63 million for the government.
However, with the loss of Sharqiya and Khneifess, prospects are dim for a government which projected income of $160 million in 2015 phosphate sales.
“For the state, whose resources are being depleted, it’s a net loss. In the current situation, any returns are important,” explained Jihad Yazigi, who runs Syria Report, an economic weekly.
Syria’s oil resources are not faring much better. The regime had relied heavily on oil revenues, which brought in $3.8 billion in 2011, around a quarter of total state income. But output took a drastic hit in 2011 when the European Union imposed an oil embargo to sanction the regime’s brutal repression of anti-government protests.
The cash-strapped government has since lost control of a string of oil fields to ISIS militants. In 2013, ISIS militants seized all the fields in the oil-rich eastern province of Deir al-Zor, generating funds for the group’s operations. By September 2014, ISIS was producing more oil than the regime: 80,000 barrels per day, compared to the government’s 17,000 bpd, the Oil Ministry said. And by the end of last year, official production had plunged to 9,329 bpd, compared to prewar output of 380,000 bpd.
According to Syria Report, ISIS seized yet another oil field from the regime last week – Jazal, which produced 2,500 bpd.
So far, natural gas fields have been the least affected by ISIS’ rampage through Syria.
Oil Minister Suleiman al-Abbas said regime-controlled fields produce some 10 million cubic meters per day.
But the figure does not take into account the loss of Arak and Al-Hail, two fields in central Syria that IS overran earlier this month.
“Even if Syria had never exported its gas, it would still be crucial for electricity generation. Losing gas fields is a terrible blow to an already devastated economy,” Yazigi said.
Before its complex and multifront conflict broke out four years ago, Syria was a key exporter of agricultural products, textiles and leather, medicine, flowers and ceramic goods.
Total exports have plummeted from $11.3 billion in 2010 to $1.8 billion in 2014, according to the pro-government newspaper Al-Watan.
With export markets drying up, Syria has grown increasingly reliant on income taxes and customs, which brought in around $550 million in 2014, an official told AFP.
And Iran’s credit lines, which have provided at least $4.6 billion to President Bashar Assad’s regime, are part of a shrinking network of crucial but unstable revenue sources. (AFP)
Syria regime revenues shrink as losses mount SYRIA NEWS | ZAMAN ALWSL
You are losing, thats the truth.
With most of its natural and mineral resources having fallen under rebel control, Syrian state revenues have shrunk, leaving the government dependent on unstable sources of income for its survival.
Four years of conflict have decimated the state coffers. Now the government’s only revenues are drawn from dwindling customs and income taxes, heavily bolstered by lines of credit from key regime backer Iran.
With the rise of the ISIS jihadi group, the regime has also lost control over swaths of vital resources – with two phosphate mines among its most recent losses. According to local activists and the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a Britain-based group that monitors the conflict, ISIS last weekend seized Sharqiya and Khneifess, 50 kilometers southwest of the ancient city of Palmyra in central Syria. Both sites were run by the state and accounted for much of the regime’s last remaining exports.
An Oil Ministry official said Sharqiya produced at least 3 million tons of phosphate a year and Khneifess generated 850,000 tons. Before the war broke out in 2011, Syria was the fifth-largest phosphate exporter in the world, mainly selling to Lebanon, Romania and Greece. In the first quarter of 2015, Syria sold 408,000 tons of phosphate in total, on the domestic market and abroad, according to the ministry. Phosphate sales raised some $39 million, with exports accounting for all but $4 million.
Already this year’s exports have less than halved from the 988,000 tons sold in the first three months of 2011 that brought in $63 million for the government.
However, with the loss of Sharqiya and Khneifess, prospects are dim for a government which projected income of $160 million in 2015 phosphate sales.
“For the state, whose resources are being depleted, it’s a net loss. In the current situation, any returns are important,” explained Jihad Yazigi, who runs Syria Report, an economic weekly.
Syria’s oil resources are not faring much better. The regime had relied heavily on oil revenues, which brought in $3.8 billion in 2011, around a quarter of total state income. But output took a drastic hit in 2011 when the European Union imposed an oil embargo to sanction the regime’s brutal repression of anti-government protests.
The cash-strapped government has since lost control of a string of oil fields to ISIS militants. In 2013, ISIS militants seized all the fields in the oil-rich eastern province of Deir al-Zor, generating funds for the group’s operations. By September 2014, ISIS was producing more oil than the regime: 80,000 barrels per day, compared to the government’s 17,000 bpd, the Oil Ministry said. And by the end of last year, official production had plunged to 9,329 bpd, compared to prewar output of 380,000 bpd.
According to Syria Report, ISIS seized yet another oil field from the regime last week – Jazal, which produced 2,500 bpd.
So far, natural gas fields have been the least affected by ISIS’ rampage through Syria.
Oil Minister Suleiman al-Abbas said regime-controlled fields produce some 10 million cubic meters per day.
But the figure does not take into account the loss of Arak and Al-Hail, two fields in central Syria that IS overran earlier this month.
“Even if Syria had never exported its gas, it would still be crucial for electricity generation. Losing gas fields is a terrible blow to an already devastated economy,” Yazigi said.
Before its complex and multifront conflict broke out four years ago, Syria was a key exporter of agricultural products, textiles and leather, medicine, flowers and ceramic goods.
Total exports have plummeted from $11.3 billion in 2010 to $1.8 billion in 2014, according to the pro-government newspaper Al-Watan.
With export markets drying up, Syria has grown increasingly reliant on income taxes and customs, which brought in around $550 million in 2014, an official told AFP.
And Iran’s credit lines, which have provided at least $4.6 billion to President Bashar Assad’s regime, are part of a shrinking network of crucial but unstable revenue sources. (AFP)
Syria regime revenues shrink as losses mount SYRIA NEWS | ZAMAN ALWSL
You are losing, thats the truth.
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Israel has killed nearly 5000 civilians or even more in past 10 years, roughly the same amount if civilians killed by IS ==> Israel and ISIS are the same.
BTW, majority of those killed in Syria are armed people and a large amount of civilians killed were pro-Aasad or killed by rebels/terrorists regardless of their views. So that 'tens of thousands of civilians' killed by Aasad is just a fantasy and made up lie, it doesn' t work anymore.
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Strategy should fortify western and central Syria. ISIS will then invade Israel which would be an easier target. @500 is playing with fire, then he will get fire.
If Assad dies, Israel will die. ISIS is no joke. This thing will rape and murder Israelis like never seen before. @500 is going to cry when ISIS has a sword on his neck.
If Assad dies, Israel will die. ISIS is no joke. This thing will rape and murder Israelis like never seen before. @500 is going to cry when ISIS has a sword on his neck.
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First of all your numbers are wrong, secondly I already answered that nonsense argument: numbers per se are irrelevant, methods of warfare matter. Starving, barrel bombing, gassing used by Assad are all war crimes and crimes against humanity, Israel is not using any of it.
I did not show support for any side here, I am just telling facts as they are. But even if i start shouting "Bil ruh bil dam nafdik ya bashar" and "Ya Ali" will it change anything?
Nothing changes. ISIS and Assad are two sides of same coin.
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ISIS has taken Sawran and two other villages in Northern Aleppo. Rebels sending reinforcements and preparing for counterattack. ISIS in Sawran beheaded captured FSA fighters and abducted a few dozen women to be taken as slaves.
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It's all a fake show, IS doesn't intent to put up a real fight against their Nusra terrorist counterparts in north. It doesn't even come close to attacks they launched on Deir al Zoor, Palmyra or Raqaa and Tabqa. It's all a huge sham. So don't even try to portray Nusra and co (which ironically were allies with ISIS not more than 1.5 years ago) as a front against ISIS.
