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Syria forces retake 6 Aleppo rebel areas, civilians flee

Syria forces retake 6 Aleppo rebel areas, civilians flee

Syria forces have retaken a third of rebel-held territory in Aleppo, forcing nearly 10,000 civilians to flee as they pressed their offensive to retake Syria’s second city. In a major breakthrough in the push to retake the whole city, regime forces captured six rebel-held districts of eastern Aleppo over the weekend, including Masaken Hanano, the […]

November 28, 2016 | By | Reply More
Israeli forces kill four Islamic State linked gunmen after Golan attack

Israeli forces kill four Islamic State linked gunmen after Golan attack

Israeli forces killed four gunmen linked to the Islamic State group after they fired on soldiers Sunday, the military said, in the first such attack on the occupied Golan Heights. The Israeli soldiers were targeted with machinegun fire and mortars and they shot back, before the air force bombed the vehicle carrying the gunmen identified […]

November 27, 2016 | By | Reply More
Thousands flee bushfires as Israel alleges arson terror

Thousands flee bushfires as Israel alleges arson terror

Tens of thousands of Israelis fled raging bushfires in the northern city of Haifa Thursday, as Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said any proof of arson would be treated as “terror”. Internal Security Minister Gilad Erdan said up to half of a spate of fires had been “arson terror”, while another minister appeared to point a […]

November 26, 2016 | By | Reply More
Passenger trains collide in Iran 44 killed, 103 injured

Passenger trains collide in Iran 44 killed, 103 injured

Forty-four people were killed and 103 injured when one Iranian passenger train collided with another at a station about 150 miles (250 km) east of the capital Tehran, state media reported. “I was sleeping when the crash happened. I thought it was an air strike … When I opened my eyes, there was blood everywhere,” […]

November 25, 2016 | By | Reply More
IS truck bomb kills 70 in Iraq as Shiite pilgrims travel

IS truck bomb kills 70 in Iraq as Shiite pilgrims travel

A suicide bombing claimed by the Islamic State group killed at least 70 people, mainly Shiite pilgrims, south of Baghdad Thursday, in the latest jihadist attack as Iraqi forces battle to retake Mosul. The huge truck bomb blast ripped through a petrol station where buses packed with faithful returning from the Arbaeen commemoration in Karbala […]

November 24, 2016 | By | Reply More
Charity airs moral outrage over Aleppo child deaths

Charity airs moral outrage over Aleppo child deaths

Save the Children has hit out at the moral outrage of the mounting deaths and suffering of children in the battleground Syrian city of Aleppo, in a statement released Wednesday. The charity said medics across northwest Syria were looking to fortify hospitals after a wave of attacks in rebel-held east Aleppo left facilities struggling to […]

November 23, 2016 | By | Reply More
United States warns Syrian generals they will face trial

United States warns Syrian generals they will face trial

The United States on Monday named a dozen Syrian generals and officers accused of leading attacks on civilian targets and running torture prisons, warning they will one day face justice. US Ambassador Samantha Power read out the names at a tense Security Council meeting on Syria, where government forces backed by Russia pressed on with […]

November 22, 2016 | By | Reply More
Syrian family, pupils among dozens killed in Aleppo attacks

Syrian family, pupils among dozens killed in Aleppo attacks

Rebel shelling killed eight children at a school in the government-held part of Aleppo on Sunday and a barrel bomb killed a family of six in the rebel-held area, part of a heavy government bombardment that has knocked out all the hospitals. Hundreds of people have been killed since Tuesday in a concerted push by […]

November 21, 2016 | By | Reply More
All hospitals in eastern Aleppo out of action after bombardments

All hospitals in eastern Aleppo out of action after bombardments

All hospitals in Syria’s besieged rebel-held eastern Aleppo are out of service after days of heavy air strikes, its health directorate and the World Health Organization (WHO) said, though a war monitor said some were still functioning. White House national security adviser Susan Rice said the United States condemned “in the strongest terms” the latest […]

November 20, 2016 | By | Reply More
Activists- Intense bombing of Syria’s Aleppo kills 27

Activists- Intense bombing of Syria’s Aleppo kills 27

At least 27 civilians were killed in regime air strikes, barrel bomb attacks and artillery fire on the rebel-held side of Syria’s Aleppo city on Saturday, a monitor said. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported massive bombardment across the eastern side of the battered city, five days into a renewed government assault on opposition-held […]

November 19, 2016 | By | Reply More