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Syria rebels lose all northeast Aleppo in major blow

Syria rebels lose all northeast Aleppo in major blow

Syria’s rebels lost all of the northern Aleppo on Monday, as the army made significant advances in its offensive to recapture the entire city. The regime gains have prompted an exodus of thousands of desperate civilians, some fleeing to districts held by the government or Kurdish forces, others heading south into areas still under opposition […]

November 28, 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
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
New suspected Islamic States mass grave found near Mosul

New suspected Islamic States mass grave found near Mosul

Iraqi forces have found another suspected mass grave containing the remains of victims of the Islamic State group in territory recaptured from the jihadists near Mosul. An AFP team visited the isolated site that was recaptured recently by elite interior ministry forces down a dirt track outside the village of Tall Adh-Dhahab, some 10 kilometres […]

November 19, 2016 | By | Reply More
Syria army steps up bombardment of rebel east Aleppo

Syria army steps up bombardment of rebel east Aleppo

Syrian aircraft and artillery pounded rebel-held areas of Aleppo early Friday as Damascus and its ally Moscow intensified a renewed offensive against the rebels. It was the fourth straight day of bombing since Russia declared an end to a month-long humanitarian pause on Tuesday. The more than 250,000 civilians living under siege in the rebel-held […]

November 18, 2016 | By | Reply More
Islamic State killed 300 former policemen south of Mosul, HRW says

Islamic State killed 300 former policemen south of Mosul, HRW says

Islamic State militants probably killed more than 300 Iraqi former police three weeks ago and buried them in a mass grave near the town of Hammam al-Alil south of Mosul, Human Rights Watch said on Thursday. A reporter visited the site of the mass grave, where residents said the ultra-hardline militants buried victims who had […]

November 17, 2016 | By | Reply More
Syria activists say more than 65 killed in 3 days in Aleppo

Syria activists say more than 65 killed in 3 days in Aleppo

Oct 13, – Meanwhile, rebel shelling of government-held areas in the divided city killed two girls at a school. The airstrikes came a day after an air raid hit eastern Aleppo’s biggest market, killing at least 15 people and leveling buildings. Overnight shelling and over a dozen airstrikes on rebel-held parts of the Syrian city […]

October 13, 2016 | By | Reply More
Syrian troops advance in Aleppo amid war’s heaviest bombing

Syrian troops advance in Aleppo amid war’s heaviest bombing

Sep 25, – The U.N. meanwhile said that nearly 2 million people in Aleppo, Syria’s largest city and onetime commercial center, are without running water following the escalation in fighting over the past few days. Syrian troops captured a rebel-held area on the edge of Aleppo on Saturday, tightening their siege on opposition-held neighborhoods in […]

September 25, 2016 | By | Reply More
Barrel bombs kill at least 15 civilians in Syria’s Aleppo

Barrel bombs kill at least 15 civilians in Syria’s Aleppo

Aug  27, – The Britain-based group said regime aircraft had dropped two explosive-packed barrel bombs several minutes apart on the Maadi district of eastern Aleppo. At least 15 civilians were killed in a barrel bomb attack on a rebel-held district of Syria’s Aleppo city on Saturday, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitor said. The […]

August 27, 2016 | By | Reply More
Barrel bomb attack kills 11 children in Syria’s Aleppo

Barrel bomb attack kills 11 children in Syria’s Aleppo

Aug  25, – “Fifteen civilians, among them 11 children, were killed in a barrel bomb attack on the Bab al-Nayrab neighbourhood” in the south of Aleppo city, the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitor said. Eleven children were killed on Thursday in a barrel bomb attack carried out by government forces on a rebel-held […]

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