The Russian and Syrian bombing raids in Aleppo have had horrific results with nearly 500 dead, while food rations are expected to run out by the end of the month, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said Thursday.
The “humanitarian bombing pause” declared by Russia and Syria in the besieged city of Aleppo has gone into effect, but as ABC News delicately puts it, “doubts have already been raised about the credibility of the brief pause.”
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The Syrian military said on Thursday a unilateral ceasefire backed by Russia had come into force to allow people to leave besieged eastern Aleppo, a move that the rebels have said is part of a psychological campaign to get them to surrender.
During Wednesday night’s presidential debate, Republican nominee Donald Trump refuted moderator Chris Wallace’s assertion that Trump’s claim that the Syrian city of Aleppo had “fallen.”
Russia’s U.N. ambassador Vitaly Churkin gave the U.N. Security Council a draft statement on Tuesday, calling on nations with ties to the legitimate Syrian opposition to make a greater effort to weed out “terrorists.”
Bashar Assad’s wife Asma granted her first interview in eight years to the Rossiya 24 news channel of Russia, as transcribed by RT.com. In the interview, she blamed Western powers for prolonging the Syrian civil war, laid responsibility for the human carnage at their feet, and accused Western media of hyping tragedies that are politically harmful to her husband.
After the latest news of horrible civilian carnage in Aleppo, Syria, including an airstrike that killed 20 members of the same family, Russia has announced it will temporarily suspend airstrikes. The move has been presented as an opportunity for rebel forces to pull out of the city, but the rebels refuse to leave.
Russia has announced that Russian and Syrian warplanes are halting airstrikes on the besieged city of Aleppo.
Russian President Vladimir Putin, speaking from India at an economic summit for developing countries, denied charges of Russian skulduggery in the U.S. presidential election, accused America of “spying on everyone and eavesdropping on everyone,” and warned Western powers to “do everything to minimize civilian casualties” in the battle for Mosul.
Russia’s ambassador to the UN said that tensions with the United States are probably the worst since the 1973 Yom Kippur War, when Moscow and Washington took opposing sides in the conflict.
(REUTERS) – U.S. President Barack Obama and his top foreign policy advisers are expected to meet on Friday to consider their military and other options in Syria as Syrian and Russian aircraft continue to pummel Aleppo and other targets, U.S.
Syrian and Russian warplanes carried out dozens of air strikes on rebel-held districts of Aleppo on Friday, a monitor said, as world powers prepared for new talks on a ceasefire.
Syria’s President Bashar al-Assad said on Friday that the Syrian army’s capture of Aleppo, which has come under renewed bombardment in an effort to seize its rebel-held sector, would be “a very important springboard” to pushing “terrorists” back to Turkey.
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry will meet his Russian counterpart in Switzerland on Saturday to discuss Syria, officials said on Wednesday, as a devastating bombing campaign of the city of Aleppo intensified.
On Wednesday, Pope Francis begged for an “immediate ceasefire” in Syria, calling for “at least” a truce to allow civilians, especially children, to be evacuated.
At least eight civilians were killed on Tuesday in the heaviest Russian bombardment in days of rebel-held areas of Syria’s second city Aleppo, a monitoring group said.
An international medical aid agency is pleading for access to treat the wounded in the eastern, rebel-held parts of Syria’s Aleppo even as government forces press on with their offensive to retake that part of the city.
Russia on Saturday vetoed a United Nations draft resolution demanding an end to the bombing of Syria’s war-battered city of Aleppo.
The risk of a military confrontation between Israel and Hezbollah has become significantly greater over the past few weeks, an Arab intelligence official told Breitbart Jerusalem.
The Wall Street Journal reported this week that Iraqi Shiite militia fighters are “pouring into Syria to reinforce the Assad regime’s siege of Aleppo, further complicating the tangled web of alliances the U.S. relies on to fight Islamic State, which can turn an ally on one side of the border into an enemy on the other.”
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TEL AVIV – U.S. strikes against the Assad regime in Syria are once again being pushed by top security officials, but President Barack Obama is unlikely to give the go ahead.
Syria’s military on Wednesday announced a surprise reduction in its bombardment of rebel groups in Aleppo, nearly two weeks after declaring an all-out assault to capture the near-devastated city.
US Secretary of State John Kerry and his Russian counterpart resumed discussions on Syria on Wednesday despite a US decision earlier this week to suspend direct talks with Moscow on trying to end the conflict.
The UN has released satellite images showing most recent destruction of Syria’s embattled northern city of Aleppo.
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The United States has suspended negotiations with Russia over the war in Syria, accusing the Kremlin for the collapse of the most recent ceasefire and of joining forces loyal to Syrian Dictator Bashar al-Assad in targeting civilians in the besieged city of Aleppo rather than fighting the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL).
Rebels said on Tuesday they repelled a Syrian army offensive in southern Aleppo as Russian and Syrian warplanes continued to pound residential areas in besieged parts of the city where thousands of civilians are trapped.
TEHRAN (Reuters) – German Economy Minister Sigmar Gabriel urged the Iranian government during his two-day visit to the Islamic Republic to do what it can to push for a ceasefire in Syria.
Fighting in northern Syria between Turkey-backed Syrian rebels and ISIS militants killed at least 15 rebels as the opposition pressed toward a town of symbolic importance for the extremists, an activist group and Turkish officials said Monday.
“What happens in Syria in the coming days and weeks can define the future of the Middle East,” stated Breitbart’s Aaron Klein. “It can define the future of the powerbrokers in the region… What is playing out…at the United Nations actually
Syrian government and allied forces have advanced toward Aleppo, pursuing their week-old offensive to take the rebel-held part of the city after dozens of overnight air strikes.
Contents: Leaked John Kerry audio reveals bitter Obama administration disagreements; Concerns growing of a military showdown between US and Russia in Syria
Syria’s Ministry of Tourism has released a video highlighting the possibility of holidays in war-torn Aleppo. Set to the Game of Thrones theme music, the one minute-long clip boasts lush parks and greenery, clear blue skies, and towering minarets.
Civilians under bombardment in Syria’s rebel-held east Aleppo are facing “a level of savagery that no human should have to endure,” the UN aid chief said Sunday.
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Negotiations between America and Russia over the future of the nearly six-year-old civil war in Syria are on “life support,” says a U.S. State Department spokesman, as the two nations continue to spar over the future of war-ravaged Aleppo, blaming one another for the ongoing chaos and carnage in the city.
At least two barrel bombs hit the largest hospital in the rebel-held side of Syria’s battleground second city of Aleppo on Saturday, the medical organization that supports it said.
BEIRUT — Russia warned the United States Saturday against carrying out any attacks on Syrian government forces, saying it would have repercussions across the Middle East as government forces captured a hill on the edge of the northern city of Aleppo under the cover of airstrikes.
Syrian government forces and rebels fought battles north of Aleppo and in the city centre on Friday, a week into a Russian-backed offensive by the Syrian army to take the entire city, a war monitor and sources on both sides said.
Syrian government forces continued their push into rebel-held districts of Aleppo on Thursday as international officials issued dire warnings of an ongoing humanitarian disaster in Syria’s largest city.
