Aleppo

Syrian Arab Army pushes into city of Maarat al-Nu’man, a key terrorist stronghold in Idlib (Image Source: SANA)
Khaled Iskef
21st Century Wire

Ahrar Al Sharqiya militant testing out US supplied TOW Missile unit in Aleppo countryside (Image: SMMS)

Khaled Iskef
21st Century Wire

Russian Sukhoi Su-57 fighter bomber (Image: Courtesy of Russian Ministry of Defense)
Khaled Iskef
21st Century Wire

December 27, 2019, RT.com
-by Eva Bartlett
Giving a sympathetic platform to a terrorist is reprehensible at best, downright criminal at worst, and definitely a bad look for a ‘respected’ media contributor. Oh, it’s for bashing Assad and the Russians? Go ahead, then.

The documentary movie “For Sama” has won a host of awards in Europe and North America. Its producers and protagonists, Syrians Waad Kateab and her husband Dr. Hamza Kateab plus English film-maker Edward Watts, have received gushing praise. And the awards will probably keep coming. 
Unfortunately, behind the human interest story, the film “For Sama” is little more than propaganda: biased, misleading, and politically partisan.  
 

Mahmoud lives less than 100 meters from Nusra Front terrorists who occupy the houses at the end of his street. The street that separates him from his neighbours on the opposite side is empty, nobody dares to cross it because the Nusra Front snipers will shoot them - Mahmoud told me that one man had been shot and was left bleeding in the street because nobody dared to try and rescue him.

My conversation with Pierre Le Corf in Khalidiyah, West Aleppo. Terrorist groups are embedded only a few hundred meters away from us. Almost every day civilians in this district are sniped or shelled.

As 21WIRE has reported in previously, the indiscriminate shelling of residential areas in Aleppo by US-backed Al-Qaeda militants has intensified in recent weeks.

Walking around Khalidiyah in north-west Aleppo, every person in the street is affected by the continued terrorist attacks. Children wave shyly from the balconies, others hide behind the sniper sheets, others walk past glaring but return out of curiosity and to have their picture taken. Life goes in but the terrorist presence only a few hundred meters away hangs like a dark shroud, a shadow behind the eyes of the children who can be shot for crossing the street or their homes destroyed by mortars.

The only power standing between Christianity and its extinction in Syria is the Syrian government and the Syrian Arab Army who have protected and defended these communities because they are Syrian and part of the diverse, historic fabric of this nation essential for its continued multi-cultural identity.