Aleppo

Aleppo: Where hospitals were turned into Sharia gaols

  Photo of the Aleppo hospital visited by Gail Malone after its liberation from jihadi rebels by the Syrian Army. All other photos also by her. Gail Malone, an Australian peace activist who recently visited Syria, writes in her blog: In April [2017], as part of our fact finding mission, we travelled to Aleppo.  We visited a hospital there which […]
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Suspected US coalition air strike kills dozens in Syria – report

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights says that a number of refugees were killed during the air raid allegedly carried out by US-led coalition forces in a Syrian town near the Iraqi border [Xinhua]
The London-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) says the death toll from a suspected US-led coalition air strike near the Iraqi border has risen to 42 and will likely continue to rise.
On Tuesday, SOHR said that 11 children and 6 women were among the fatalities in the border town of Al Bokamal.
It said the fatality list included at least 14 Iraqi refugees.

SUNDAY SCREENING: ‘Aleppo Renaissance’ (2017)

This week’s documentary film curated by our editorial team at 21WIRE. 
This documentary chronicles the organized theft and destruction of the industrial cities of Aleppo, Syria by western and Gulf-backed terrorists gangs – with the help of Turkey. It also looks at how residents are rebuilding their businesses – and their lives. Watch:

Confirmed by OPCW: Terrorists used illegal chemical weapons in Aleppo–organisation refuses to investigate alleged false flag attack in Idlib

A report from the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) has concluded that terrorists who formerly operated in Aleppo prior to its liberation by Russian and Syrian troops, had used illegal chemical weapons on civilian populations.
The terrorists, referred to as ‘moderate rebels’ by western mainstream media were found to have used sulphur mustard gas during their criminal occupation of East Aleppo.
The Russian Foreign Ministry said that it is satisfied with the OPCW’s findings.

ISIS commanders and civil servants abandon Raqqa, the ‘capital’ of the so-called Islamic State

With Syrian, Kurdish SDF and US forces each inching closer to Raqqa by the day, the much anticipated ‘Battle of Raqqa’ may prove to be a Pyrrhic victory.
ISIS has occupied the Syrian city of Raqqa since 2013 and since then, the city has functioned as the self-proclaimed capital of the so-called Islamic State.
Now though, according to unnamed US defence sources cited by Fox News, Raqqa is rapidly being abandoned by not only ISIS commanders but also by ISIS ‘civil servants’.