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Syria air raids target Aleppo Kurds
Syrian warplanes Saturday raided a flashpoint majority Kurdish district in the northern city of Aleppo, a watchdog said, while air strikes were also reported on the outskirts of Damascus.A warplane raided the west of Sheikh Maqsud in Aleppo city, killing at least five civilians and wounding several others, said the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, as violence in the politically sensitive neighbourhood escalated. The area targeted by the air strike is under control of the Democratic Union Party (PYD), Syrias branch of the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), Abdel Rahman told AFP. We can see a clear drive by the army to attack the Kurds in recent days. The PYD is being dragged by the army into Syrias conflict, he said. Up until now, Syrias Kurds have been split over Syrias bloody revolt, with most trying to maintain neutrality. Amateur video shot in the neighbourhood and distributed by the Syrian Revolution General Commission, a grassroots network of activists, showed burnt bodies lying in rubble. The footage was reportedly filmed in the strikes aftermath. Elsewhere, the air force targeted Al-Hajar al-Aswad in southern Damascus and Qadam in the southwest, said the Britain-based watchdog. Al-Hajar al-Aswad was also struck by mortar rounds and rockets, activists in the capital said. Warplanes also raided Yabrud near Damascus and Qusayr in the central province of Homs, as regime tanks shelled rebel enclaves in Homs city. In Damascus, mortar rounds hit Baramkeh in the heart of the city, said the Observatory, as rebels pressed their campaign to break into the regimes key bastion. Posted by: Steve White 2013-04-07 |
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