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    Syrian Army wins another chunk of Aleppo-Lattakia highway


    The Syrian army took a wide stride in seizing back control over the Aleppo-Lattakia highway and is now very close to the town of al-Salma.

    The Syrian troops won control of another 12 kilometers along the Aleppo-Lattakia highway after capturing al-Zawik mountain in the Southwestern parts of the province of Aleppo.
    The army units are now very close to Salma town as they have pushed back Takfiri terrorists from more areas in the region.
    Earlier today, the Syrian army and popular defense groups earned control over a key height in the Northeastern countryside of Lattakia on Monday, while military sources said most of the terrorists killed in the clashes were Afghan nationals.
    The Syrian army won back the height 1154, South of Kabana village after killing a large group of terrorists, a military source said.

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    TEHRAN (FNA)- The Syrian army took a wide stride in seizing back control over the Aleppo-Lattakia highway and is now very close to the town of al-Salma.
    The Syrian troops won control of another 12 kilometers along the Aleppo-Lattakia highway after capturing al-Zawik mountain in the Southwestern parts of the province of Aleppo.

    The army units are now very close to Salma town as they have pushed back Takfiri terrorists from more areas in the region.
    Earlier today, the Syrian army and popular defense groups earned control over a key height in the Northeastern countryside of Lattakia on Monday, while military sources said most of the terrorists killed in the clashes were Afghan nationals.

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    Earlier today, the Syrian army and popular defense groups earned control over a key height in the Northeastern countryside of Lattakia on Monday, while military sources said most of the terrorists killed in the clashes were Afghan nationals.
    The Syrian army won back the height 1154, South of Kabana village after killing a large group of terrorists, a military source said.
    Most of the dead terrorists have been identified as Afghans, the military source added.
    Syrian Army and the country's National Defense Forces (NDF), backed up by the Russian warplanes, have pushed back the militant groups from nearly 200 kilometers of land in the coastal province of Lattakia in the last ten days, military sources said Monday.
    The sources said that after a ten-day-long period of joint operation, carried out by the pro-government forces and the significant role of the Russian bombardments, the militants retreated their forces from almost 200 kilometers of Lattakia' territories.
    The 10-day-long operation inflicted heavy casualties on the militant groups, whose military grid also sustained large damage.
    On Sunday, the Syrian army and popular forces purged the terrorists and advanced to areas near the Turkish borders.
    The Syrian sources in the battlefield said that the Syrian army took control of Zahia heights in the Northern countryside of Lattakia, 2km from the joint borders with Turkey.
    The Syrian army, supported by Russia, has launched massive airstrikes against the terrorists' hideouts in the countryside of Lattakia.
    The Syrian troops made major advances in different parts of Lattakia in the past few days after pushing back terrorists from their positions across the coastal province and killed several groups of militants, including their senior commanders.

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    Is all Assad's fault...

    Kerry Blames Assad Regime for Deadly Attack on Syrian Kids' Hospital
    Apr 29, 2016 | Syria and Russia denied responsibility Thursday for a devastating airstrike on a pediatric hospital in Aleppo supported by Doctors Without Borders that killed at least 50 and left the so-called "cessation of hostilities" in shreds.
    The strike Wednesday night against "yet another medical facility in Syria" destroyed a vital hospital in the northern city of Aleppo and "the main referral center for pediatric care in the area," said Muskilda Zancada, head of the Syria mission for the Medicins Sans Frontiere (Doctors Without Borders) medical group. Zancada asked, "Where is the outrage among those with the power and obligation to stop this carnage?" Pablo Marco, operations manager for MSF in the Middle East, told CNN that at least six of those killed were hospital staff -- two doctors, two nurses, one guard and one maintenance worker. The United Nations and humanitarian groups have estimated that more than 300,000 have been killed in the five-year-old Syrian civil war.

    In a statement, Secretary of State John Kerry blamed the Syrian regime of President Bashar al-Assad for the airstrike that reportedly came from a missile launched by a warplane. "We are outraged by yesterday's airstrikes in Aleppo on the al Quds hospital supported by both Doctors Without Borders and the International Committee of the Red Cross, which killed dozens of people, including children, patients and medical personnel," Kerry said. "It appears to have been a deliberate strike on a known medical facility and follows the Assad regime's appalling record of striking such facilities and first responders. These strikes have killed hundreds of innocent Syrians," Kerry said. Syria's state-run SANA news carried an official statement denying that Syrian government forces were involved and the Russian Defense Ministry also denied responsibility for the airstrike.


    A man helps an injured man as others stand in rubble after airstrikes and shelling hit Aleppo, Syria

    The U.S. military has repeatedly said that its air campaign against the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, or ISIS, has not struck near Aleppo and has previously condemned "indiscriminate" bombing by the Russians. In attacks in early February, Russian airstrikes reportedly hit hospitals and schools, killing more than 50. Tim Shenk, a spokesman for MSF in New York, said at the time that the estimated death toll for an airstrike on one of the hospitals supported by the group in northern Syria had more than doubled to 25. World Health Organization spokesman Tarik Jasarevic told Turkey's Anadolu news agency that "since the beginning of the conflict, almost 700 health workers have been killed and an estimated 58 percent of public hospitals and 49 percent of primary health centers are either only partially functional or have closed."

    Army Col. Steve Warren, a spokesman for Combined Joint Task Force-Operation Inherent Resolve, said in a Pentagon briefing from Baghdad at the time, "We know the Russians and Syrian regime frankly conducted strikes in areas where those hospitals and schools were hit." He also said that the Syrians were using "barrel bombs" dropped from helicopters. In late January, Staffan de Mistura, the United Nations special envoy for Syria, won agreement from 17 nations, including the U.S., Iran and Russia, for a "cessation of hostilities" in Syria but the agreement has been falling apart amid stepped up attacks by the Syrians and Russians and the withdrawal from negotiations of a main rebel group.

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    I seriously doubt Assad or the Russians listen...

    Halt Aleppo ‘bloodbath,’ MSF tells al-Assad, Russia
    Sat, Oct 01, 2016 - Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) yesterday appealed to the Syrian government and its Russian ally to stop bombing rebel-held eastern Aleppo, warning they were provoking a “bloodbath” among civilians in the city.
    “Bombs are raining from Syria-led coalition planes and the whole of east Aleppo has become a giant kill box,” MSF director of operations Xisco Villalonga said in a statement. “The Syrian government must stop the indiscriminate bombing, and Russia as an indispensable political and military ally of Syria has the responsibility to exert the pressure to stop this,” he said. The UN has warned that a humanitarian catastrophe is unfolding in Aleppo unlike any witnessed so far in Syria’s brutal five-year war, which has claimed more than 300,000 lives. According to the UN, only about 35 doctors remain in eastern Aleppo, where an estimated 250,000 people have been under siege by government forces since early last month.

    The MSF statement cited numbers from the east Aleppo health directorate, showing that from Sept. 1 to 26, the few hospitals still functioning in the rebel-held part of the city received some 278 dead bodies, including at least 96 children. More than 822 wounded were also taken in, including at least 221 children, the group said. “All intensive care units are full. Patients have to wait for others to die so they can be moved to an available bed in intensive care,” Abu Waseem, manager of an MSF-supported trauma hospital in east Aleppo, said in the statement. “We only have three operating theaters and yesterday alone we had to do more than 20 major abdominal surgeries,” he said, adding that “hospital staff is working up to 20 hours a day. They cannot just go home and let people die.”


    A man searches for survivors at a damaged site hit by airstrikes in Idlib, Syria

    MSF said it had last been able to deliver medical supplies to east Aleppo in August, and warned that the huge number of wounded was rapidly depleting the stocks in the remaining hospitals. “Now, with a complete siege on the city, attacks on humanitarian convoys and intensive bombing, we are powerless,” Villalonga said, adding that “if this intensity of bombing continues, there may not be a single hospital standing in a few days.” He demanded that the bombing stop, and that the sick and wounded be evacuated from the city. “Anything short of this is confirmation of what many are dreading, that the world has abandoned the people of Aleppo to a violent, agonizing death,” he said.

    In related news, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights yesterday said that more than 3,800 civilians have been killed in one year of Russian airstrikes in Syria in support of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. More than 9,300 people have been killed in the Russian raids since Sept. 30 last year, the monitoring group said. The toll includes more than 2,700 militants from the Islamic State group and about 2,800 fighters from various rebel factions, the British-based group said. At least 20,000 civilians have been wounded in the Russian raids, it said. The Observatory — which relies on a network of sources inside Syria for its information — says it determines what planes carried out raids according to their type, location, flight patterns and the munitions involved. Observatory director Rami Abdel Rahman said the death toll from Russian strikes could be even higher given the number of people killed by unidentified warplanes.

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    What war looks like after the fighting...

    UN releases satellite images of damage in Syria's Aleppo
    October 5, 2016 — The U.N. on Wednesday released stark satellite images showing the most recent destruction of Syria's embattled northern city of Aleppo, pounded by Syrian and Russian airstrikes since the collapse of a U.S.-Russia brokered cease-fire two weeks ago.
    The release coincides with a stepped-up offensive by Syrian pro-government forces that are attacking the city from the south in a bid to penetrate its opposition-controlled areas, where the U.N. estimates 275,000 people are trapped in a government siege. In Geneva, an official with the U.N.'s satellite imagery program said the new pictures from the rebel-held areas in the eastern half of the city show much destruction, presumably caused by airstrikes. "Since the cease-fire has broken down, you certainly see an awful lot of new damage or plenty of new damage," said Lars Bromley, a research adviser at UNOSAT. The images, from Digital Globe and obtained by the U.N. agency through a licensing arrangement with the U.S. State Department, show mostly "formerly blasted and blown-up areas" during Syria's 5-1/2-year war "experiencing a great deal of additional damage," said Bromley. "To a certain extent you're looking at rubble being pushed around," he told reporters.


    Damaged buildings inside the Bustan Al-Basha neighborhood of Aleppo, Syria

    The images primarily show before-and-after pictures from mid to late September showing destruction of buildings, including houses, after the short-lived cease-fire broke down. Several images are from northern Aleppo neighborhoods, where government forces have also advanced against rebel fighters battling back. "Since the cease-fire has broken down, you certainly see an awful lot of new damage or plenty of new damage," Bromley added. "Remember that the areas that are being bombed have been bombed almost continuously for quite some time. So seeing dramatic images of formerly pristine areas now turned to rubble — you don't see a lot of that." One image, dated Saturday, shows the damage to a school or athletic facility in Aleppo's Owaija district. Some of the images had a "signature" that airstrikes had done the damage — a large-size crater. "Air-dropped munitions are often much larger than anything you would fire on the ground, so a giant crater in the ground is almost certainly an air-dropped munition," Bromley explained. "Then things like rockets, they will often occur in a row, whereas artillery or mortars will kind of have a different pattern." "But there is also a lot of overlap, there is a lot of smaller airdropped bombs that will look almost the same as a mortar or an artillery piece," he added.


    View of a burned prison belonging to Islamic State militants is seen in Falluja after government forces recaptured the city from Islamic State militants, Iraq

    UNOSAT manager Einar Bjorgo added that places like Aleppo, which has long been the focus of Syria's bitter civil war, now in its sixth year, "are of course complex to analyze because you have a mix of all this." The images could also provide significant insight after a controversial attack — such as a deadly attack on a U.N.-backed humanitarian aid convoy west of Aleppo last month. "With our analysis, we determined that it was an airstrike," Bromley said. Convoy organizers had obtained necessary clearances from the government, rebels as well as the Americans and Russians, who operated aircraft in Syrian skies. The top U.S. military officer, Marine Gen. Joseph Dunford, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, told a Senate committee last week that he believes Russia bombed the convoy and said Syrian and Russian aircraft were in the area at the time. Russia and Syria have denied that they were responsible for the strike.


    Damaged mosque is seen in Falluja, Iraq, after government forces recaptured the city from Islamic State militants

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    Russians and Syrian army destroy hospitals in Aleppo... Eastern Aleppo hospitals unusable: officials Mon, Nov 21, 2016 - All hospitals in Syria’s besieged rebel-held eastern city of Aleppo are out of service after days of heavy airstrikes, the provincial health directorate and the WHO said, although the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said some were still functioning.
    US National Security Adviser Susan Rice said the US condemned “in the strongest terms” the latest airstrikes against hospitals and urged Russia, an ally of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, to take steps to halt the violence. Intense airstrikes have battered the eastern part of the city since Tuesday last week, when the Syrian army and its allies resumed operations after a pause lasting weeks. They launched ground attacks against insurgent positions on Friday. The observatory said 48 people, including at least five children, had been killed in eastern Aleppo on Saturday by dozens of airstrikes and barrel bombs and dozens of artillery rounds. That brings the number of people killed by the increased bombardment of Aleppo and the surrounding countryside over the past five days to about 180, including 97 in the city’s besieged eastern sector, the observatory added. Warplanes, artillery and helicopters continued bombarding eastern Aleppo on Saturday, hitting many of its densely populated residential districts, the observatory said. There were intense clashes in the Bustan al-Basha district, it added. “This destruction of infrastructure essential to life leaves the besieged, resolute people, including all children and elderly men and women, without any health facilities offering life-saving treatment ... leaving them to die,” Aleppo’s health directorate said in a statement sent to reporters late on Friday by an opposition official.
    A damaged Civil Defence ambulance is pictured on Saturday in a rebel-held area of Aleppo, Syria.
    Elizabeth Hoff, who is the WHO representative in Syria, on Saturday said that a UN-led group of aid agencies based over the border in Turkey “confirmed today that all hospitals in eastern Aleppo are out of service.” The observatory said some hospitals were still operating in besieged parts of Aleppo, but said many residents were frightened to use them because of the heavy shelling. Medical sources, residents and rebels in eastern Aleppo say hospitals have been damaged by airstrikes and helicopter barrel bombs in recent days, including direct hits on the buildings. “The United States again joins our partners ... in demanding the immediate cessation of these bombardments and calling on Russia to immediately de-escalate violence and facilitate humanitarian aid and access for the Syrian people,” Rice said in a statement. However, with the US awaiting the inauguration in late January of US president-elect Donald Trump, who has been critical of Washington’s Syria policy without laying out detailed plans himself, diplomatic efforts appear stalled. UN and Arab League Envoy to Syria Staffan De Mistura was yesterday expected to meet Syrian Minister of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates Walid al-Muallem in Damascus after recent talks in Turkey and Iran, another diplomat said. “He will push on Aleppo, perhaps on a ceasefire, but on the political file there won’t be anything until [UN secretary-general-designate Antonio] Guterres is in office,” the diplomat said. http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/worl.../21/2003659719
    See also: Eight children killed in rocket launch at school in Aleppo Nov. 20, 2016 -- At least eight children died by rebel rocket fire that hit a school in government-held west Aleppo, Syrian state media said Sunday.
    In all, 10 people were killed and 59 wounded in the attack on the Furqan neighborhood. A medical source told the Syrian Arab News Agency that eight students between 7 and 12 years old were killed, another 27 students injured and a female teacher had a leg amputated. Also, Al Jazeera reported a family of six in eastern Aleppo was killed. Two medics said the al-Baytounji family -- four children and a married couple -- died from the barrel bomb laced with chlorine gas in the Sakhour district at about midnight. Damascus has denied use of the gas, which is forbidden by the international Chemical Weapons Convention.
    SANA also said shells were fired on the Faculty of Law and the neighborhoods of al-Sabil, al-Mogambo, al-Furqan and al-Midan, killing two persons and injuring 32 others in west Aleppo. The opposition now holds the eastern part of the city. Syria's military and Russia's air force had stopped bombarding eastern Aleppo, except for the front-lines, for three weeks, but recommenced strikes Tuesday. Aleppo Gov. Hussein Diab inspected al-Furqan School for basic education and urged for it to be repaired immediately. He also visited those injured in the attacks at the University Hospital, stressing the necessity of providing medical services. About 240 people have been killed in east Aleppo and the rebel-held countryside to the west of the city since Tuesday, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said. On Sunday, the United Nations' Syria envoy, Staffan de Mistura, warned time was "running out" for eastern Aleppo. He arrived in Damascus for talks. Foreign Minister Walid al-Moalem said de Mistura suggested an autonomous administration in eastern Aleppo, but Damascus completely rejected the idea. An elected city council oversees services there. Moalem said the civilians of eastern Aleppo were held hostage in this controlled distribution of food. http://www.upi.com/Top_News/World-Ne...?spt=sec&or=tn
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