COMMENTARY (The Hill) November 14, 2016 What the Battles of Mosul and Aleppo Tell Us About Their Countries’ Futures A Peshmerga soldier talks with a boy who is fleeing the fighting between Islamic State and the Iraqi army in Mosul, Iraq, November 14, 2016 Photo by Zohra Bensemra/Reuters by Brian […]
Source: Time By Jared Malsin There are currently no functioning hospitals in the rebel-held section of the Syrian city of Aleppo following days of heavy shelling and airstrikes by Syrian government and Russian warplanes, medical officials say. Airstrikes took out the last remaining hospital on Friday, according to the Health Directorate […]
Reuters International NOV 16, 2016 – www.swissinfo.ch A woman holds her child as she crosses from the Islamic State fighters-controlled part of Mosul into the Iraqi special forces soldiers-controlled part of Mosul, Iraq. REUTERS/Goran Tomasevic (reuters_tickers) By Ahmed Rasheed, John Davison and Dominic Evans BAGHDAD/BASHIQA, Iraq (Reuters) – Iraqi Shi’ite militias […]
Source: the Washington Post By Sudarsan Raghavan November 13 at 5:39 PM An Egyptian Coptic Christian woman sits in the rubble of a makeshift chapel that was torched a few […]
Image captionCommanders from the rebel forces warned civilians to leave militant-occupied areasA US-backed Kurdish and Arab force says it has begun an operation to capture Raqqa, so-called Islamic State’s “capital” in Syria. The Syria Democratic Forces (SDF) will be aided by US-led coalition air strikes. They have warned civilians to […]
One Syrian lieutenant described to me how he directed his artillery fire onto an Israeli jeep in the Jabhat al-Nusra occupied town of Al-Hamidiya inside Syria and destroyed it. The jeep might have been a gift or borrowed from Israel Robert Fisk Baath City, below the Syrian Golan Heights @indyvoices Friday […]
October 17, 2016 – 12:18pm | admin By Ahmet S. Yayla In late September, a Turkish hacker group, RedHack, released the emails of Berat Albayrak, Turkey’s Minister of Energy and Natural Resources and the son-in-law of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. Hackers have claimed that they downloaded around 20 gigabytes of data from […]
In the village of Soran, near Hama, and the surrounding area, civilians speak of their loss as part of one battle in Syria’s larger civil war, writes Robert Fisk Robert Fisk Soran, near Hama, Syria @indyvoices Thursday 3 November 2016 The Hamdo family collect what is left of their home Nelofer Pazira […]
By Reuters – Nov 02,2016 -JORDAN TIMES People walk past a damaged site after an air strike in the besieged rebel-held town of Douma, eastern Ghouta in Damascus, Syria, on Wednesday (Reuters photo) MOSCOW — Russia on Wednesday told anti-government rebels holed up in Syria’s Aleppo to leave […]
In the village of Soran, near Hama, and the surrounding area, civilians speak of their loss as part of one battle in Syria’s larger civil war, writes Robert Fisk Robert Fisk Soran, near Hama, Syria @indyvoices The Hamdo family collect what is left of their home Nelofer Pazira We arrived so soon […]
Source: Time By Jared Malsin / Istanbul As rebels hope to hold onto their half of Aleppo A fleet of eight Russian warships that entered the Mediterranean on October 26 […]
Family describes civilains being shot by militia as they seek to escape medical shortages, starvation, and the barrage of air strikes from overhead Robert Fisk Aleppo @indyvoices Kahled Kadoura, his wife Samira and 8-year old son Almuatazbilah in Aleppo shortly after they fled the east of the city Nelofer Pazira Khaled […]
As passages to western Aleppo are said to be being kept open for civilians to flee across the city, one general in the Syrian army talks of a decision to ‘enter battle’ against forces in eastern areas Robert Fisk Aleppo @indyvoices Syrians carry their belongings as they leave Aleppo’s southwestern frontline […]
Was it sent in by NGOS from Britain? Was it brought in by one of those selfless men who tried to help the people of Syria and who then fell into the fatal hands of Isis murderers? Robert Fisk in Aleppo @indyvoices Saturday 29 October 2016 A Scottish ambulance found […]
Source: BBC Islamic State (IS) militants have abducted tens of thousands of civilians from around the Iraqi city of Mosul to use as human shields, the UN says. The group […]
CULTURAL HERITAGE By Thomas Stephens OCT 26, 2016 – 11:00 This undated photo released on August 25, 2015, on a social media site used by Islamic State militants shows the destruction of the 2,000-year-old Syrian Temple of Baalshamin. The Arabic at bottom reads: “The moment of detonation of the pagan […]
Source: BBC Spain is coming under pressure from Nato allies not to allow the refuelling of Russian warships bound for Syria. The Spanish government is now reviewing the permit for […]
By AP – Oct 23,2016 – JORDAN TIMES Rebel fighters ride a military vehicle on the outskirts of the Syria Democratic Forces-controlled Tall Rifaat town, northern Aleppo province, Syria, on Saturday (Reuters photo) BEIRUT — A leading northern Syrian rebel coalition warned civilians in Aleppo to stay away from […]
Posted on October 23, 2016 by Editorial Staff KHAZER, Iraq,— Iraqi and Kurdish forces have launched a new offensive on a town near Mosul as part of a massive operation aimed at retaking the country’s second largest city from the Islamic State group. The Kurdish forces, known as peshmerga, said […]
PODCAST By Thomas Stephens http://tp.srgssr.ch/p/swi/inline?urn=urn:swi:audio:42532212 DOWNLOAD MP3 FILE OCT 23, 2016 – 11:00 Three archaeologists explain the importance and challenges of rebuilding ancient Syrian heritage sites destroyed by Islamic State. http://www.swissinfo.ch