Islamic State terrorists are planting booby trap bombs inside teddy bears, dolls, fridges and televisions in war-torn Syria. Syrian doctors working with Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) in the north of the devastated country made the claim. According to the doctors, bombs have also been planted in roads, fields, houses and[Read More…]
Tag: Aleppo
Turkey, Russia agree on ceasefire in Syria: State media
Turkey’s state-run Anadolu Agency on Wednesday reported that both the Turkish and Russian governments have agreed the terms of a ceasefire in Syria. The ceasefire, which comes into effect on midnight, aims to expand a ceasefire in the city of Aleppo, brokered by Turkey and Russia earlier this month to[Read More…]
Aleppo: Evacuation of residents suspended
The process of evacuating tens of thousands of rebels and civilians from the last rebel-held pockets of east Aleppo has been suspended, a day after convoys of buses and ambulances began taking residents out of the city. The reason for halting the evacuation process was unclear. Anti-government activists said pro-government[Read More…]
At least 3000 civilians evacuated from east Aleppo: Red Cross
At least 3,000 civilians were evacuated from east Aleppo under a deal allowing Syria’s regime to take full control of the city after years of fighting, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) said. A revived agreement on a ceasefire and evacuations were announced on Thursday after the initial plan[Read More…]
Syrian UN Ambassador uses fake photo at council to positively portray army
Syrian Ambassador to the United Nations reportedly used an old photo taken in Iraq in attempt to convince the UN Security council that Syrian forces are not mistreating civilians, ABC News reported. By holding up the photo of a soldier providing help to a woman, Syrian ambassador Bashar Jaafari said[Read More…]
Aleppo ceasefire violated; situation turns worse
Syrian government forces have renewed the shellings on the last holdouts of rebel-held eastern Aleppo, raising fears that a deal to evacuate civilians and rebels from the city may not be honoured. Journalists, activists, civilians and bloggers have been live-tweeting and updating about the catastrophe in the eastern Aleppo- one[Read More…]
Battle of Aleppo ends as Syrian rebels secure deal to withdraw
The battle of Aleppo, one of the worst blood-shed civil war, ended on Tuesday as the Syrian rebels agreed to withdraw in a ceasefire. The Military action has ended in eastern Aleppo, Vitaly Churkin, Russia’s ambassador to the UN has said. ““According to the latest information that we received in the[Read More…]
Syrian army retakes 60% of east Aleppo
Syrian army advanced overnight deeper into rebel-held east Aleppo where it now controls more than half of the former rebel stronghold after a fierce assault that has sparked an international outcry. Tens of thousands of civilians have fled eastern neighbourhoods of the city since the assault in mid-November. The government[Read More…]
I want to live. I don’t want to die: 7 year-old girl’s tweet from war-torn Aleppo
Bana Alabed, a seven year-old Syrian girl who was tweeting about the daily life in rebel-held eastern Aleppo, shared a message on Sunday night that her house had been bombed and her family was on the run. Tonight we have no house, it’s bombed & I got in rubble. I[Read More…]
Syrian forces conduct strikes over Aleppo
Having lost control over certain areas of northern Aleppo to insurgents a day before, Syrian government forces launched a counteroffensive on Saturday under the cover of airstrikes, said activists and state media. Just a day before, Syrian rebels launched a broad ground attack aiming to break a weeks-long government siege[Read More…]
Nearly 500 dead, food running out in Aleppo: UN chief
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has said that the air strikes on rebel-held eastern Aleppo has caused nearly 500 deaths and food rations expected to run out by the end of the month in the city. The air strikes launched on September 22 have been the most sustained and intensive bombardments[Read More…]
Tragic! Syrian girl succumbs to injuries after mistaking bomb for toy
A 4-year-old girl in rebel-held east Aleppo died from injuries inflicted by picking up an unexploded cluster munition she thought was a toy. Four-year-old Emam Muhammad was hurt on Monday when she was playing outside and taken to the children’s trauma ward at M2, one of east Aleppo’s last hospitals[Read More…]
This image of a five-year-old captures the horror of Syria
In what has emerged as the most haunting picture of Syrian conflict, a confused boy of five sits quietly in the back of an ambulance as he tries to comprehend the magnitude of disaster that has destroyed his home. This image captures the absolute horror that continues to ravage Aleppo, each[Read More…]