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Hundreds killed in Syria’s eastern Ghouta since February, UN says

Hundreds killed in Syria’s eastern Ghouta since February, UN says

Thousands of civilians have fled advances by Syrian government forces in eastern Ghouta over the last two days, a war monitor and a resident said, as Damascus makes rapid gains in a fierce assault against the last major rebel enclave near the capital. Government forces need to advance just a few more kilometres further to split […]

March 4, 2018 | By | Reply More
Syria allows some patients to leave besieged area

Syria allows some patients to leave besieged area

Syria’s government is allowing the evacuation of nearly 30 critically ill people from a besieged Damascus suburb, where hundreds requiring medical treatment have been prevented from reaching hospitals minutes away. The government recently tightened its siege of eastern Ghouta, home to some 400,000 people, leading to severe shortages of food, fuel and medicine as winter […]

December 27, 2017 | By | Reply More
Deadly strike hits Syria rebel town despite truce

Deadly strike hits Syria rebel town despite truce

An air strike killed eight civilians late on Monday in a rebel-held region near Damascus where a truce was declared at the weekend, medics and a monitoring group said. The strike hit the town of Arbin in the Eastern Ghouta rebel enclave at around 11:30 pm (2030 GMT), residents said. At least four children and […]

July 25, 2017 | 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
Death toll at 32 in renewed air strikes on rebel-held east of Aleppo

Death toll at 32 in renewed air strikes on rebel-held east of Aleppo

Air strikes pounded neighborhoods around a children’s hospital and a blood bank in rebel-held eastern Aleppo on Wednesday in a second day of renewed bombing that has killed at least 32 people, a war monitor, medics and emergency workers said. The air raids formed part of a wider military escalation by the Syrian government and […]

November 16, 2016 | By | Reply More
Raids on Syria’s rebel east Aleppo kill 19 civilians

Raids on Syria’s rebel east Aleppo kill 19 civilians

Aug 16, – The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the strikes were carried out by either Russian or regime aircraft and that dozens of people were also wounded, some of them critically, in Tariq al-Bab and Al-Sakhur neighbourhoods. Air raids on two rebel-held districts of Syria’s battleground second city Aleppo on Tuesday killed 19 […]

August 16, 2016 | By | Reply More
Airstrikes in Syria’s Aleppo hit hospital, market, kill 18

Airstrikes in Syria’s Aleppo hit hospital, market, kill 18

Aug  12, – The air raids hit the only hospital for women and children in the town of Kafr Hamra before dawn, killing two staffers, including a nurse. The Syrian Civil Defense, a group of first responders, said it pulled 10 people alive from under the rubble. Airstrikes in opposition areas of Syria’s northern Aleppo […]

August 12, 2016 | By | Reply More
Suicide bomber kills 5 soldiers in south Yemen

Suicide bomber kills 5 soldiers in south Yemen

Aug  07, – Another seven soldiers were wounded in the attack targeting troops who had been sent from the main southern city of Aden to Lahj province to fight jihadists, the sources said. A suicide bomber rammed his vehicle into a large group of army reinforcements in south Yemen on Sunday, killing five soldiers, military […]

August 7, 2016 | By | Reply More
Air strike on Syrian hospital kills 10 – Observatory

Air strike on Syrian hospital kills 10 – Observatory

Aug  07, –  The hospital, in the town of Meles, is about 15 km from Idlib city in rebel-held Idlib province. An airstrike on a hospital in northwestern Syria on Saturday killed 10 people, including children, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said. Syrian government and allied Russian military planes operate in Syria but it […]

August 7, 2016 | By | Reply More
Syria rebels in huge attack to break Aleppo siege

Syria rebels in huge attack to break Aleppo siege

Aug  06, –  Their assault focusing on the artillery and armaments schools of the academy has sparked contradictory reports about the situation on the ground. Jihadists and their rebel allies pressed an offensive Friday with a massive attack aimed at seizing a military academy south of Aleppo and breaking a three-week-old siege of insurgent neighbourhoods. […]

August 6, 2016 | By | Reply More