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Syrian raids on rebel-held region kill 14 civilians
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] At least 14 civilians including a maiden of tender years were killed by Syrian regime bombardment of the rebel-held Eastern Ghouta region near Damascus on Saturday, a monitor said.Ten of the victims were killed by air strikes and another four died in rocket fire, the Britannia-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said. It said another 40 people were maimed and the corpse count was likely to rise. At a medical center near the town of Hazza, an AFP photographer saw maimed children and a child’s body wrapped in plastic. Saturday’s government raids come after an attack on Tuesday by the Islamist rebel group Ahrar al-Sham ...a Syria jihadi group made up of Islamists and salafists, not that there's that much difference, formed into a brigade. They make up the main element of the Islamic Front but they don't profess adoration of al-Qaeda and they've been fighting (mainly for survival) against the Islamic State. Their leadership was wiped out at a single blow by a suicide kaboom at a crowded basement meeting in September, 2014... on a military base near the town of Harasta. On Friday, regime bombardments killed at least 19 people, including six children, mostly in the city of Douma. The deaths came amid an escalation in tit-for-tat attacks between regime forces and rebels holding the enclave on the capital’s eastern outskirts. Retaliatory shelling of Damascus on Thursday and Friday by rebels killed nine people. The official SANA news agency said on Saturday rebel shelling of the city killed one person and maimed 20. Eastern Ghouta is supposed to be part of a "de-escalation zone" under a deal between Russia, Iran and ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... aimed at reducing the level of violence.  Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneckal-Assad Despoiler of Deraa... ’s forces have besieged Eastern Ghouta since 2013, and humanitarian conditions in the area, where some 400,000 people live, are dire. More than 330,000 people are estimated to have been killed in the Syrian war, which began in 2011 as the regime brutally crushed anti-government protests. Millions have been displaced. Posted by: Fred 2017-11-19 |
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