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Syria rebels 'break government siege' of Aleppo

Rebel factions in Syria say they have broken a weeks-long government siege of Aleppo, amid scenes of rejoicing in the crucial northern city.
Sources close to government forces denied that they had been pushed aside and said they had driven the rebels back from an artillery base.
UK-based activists say the rebels have indeed managed to link up with their comrades in eastern Aleppo.
But the rebels have so far failed to establish a secure route, they add.
There were sporadic clashes and air strikes on Sunday morning, after the reported ending of the siege, monitors said.
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http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-37000570
 
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JAMES COMEY: At some point, there is going to be a terrorist diaspora out of Syria like we’ve never seen before. Not all of the Islamic State's killers are going to die on the battlefield. Hundreds and hundreds of them, when the coalition succeeds and I'm confident they will in crushing the Islamic State--through the fingers of the crush--are going to come hundreds of really dangerous people and they're going to flow out primarily towards Western Europe, but we might as well be right next door to Western Europe given the ease with which people can travel.

And this is an order of magnitude greater than any diaspora we've seen before. A lot of terrorists fled out of Afghanistan in the late 1980s and the early 1990s. This is 10 times that or more.
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http://www.realclearworld.com/video...out_of_syria_like_weve_never_seen_before.html
 
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Russian jets 'drop thermite bombs' on Syrian city

Russian jets dropped incendiary thermite bombs on a civilian area of Idlib city in Syria on Sunday night, according to local emergency workers.

Videos taken by residents of the aftermath show whole buildings burning white, while women can be heard screaming in the background.

Civil defence volunteers known as the White Helmets reported that 10 people were injured in the attack.
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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/08/08/russian-jets-drop-thermite-bombs-on-syrian-city/


Don't worry Russia, im sure fire bombing the civilian population is a sure way to get them on your side and not on the side of the terrorists.
 
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Yet again we see this illogical phenomena where non-combatants can magically identify the jets and the munitions being used in the dark with the naked eye. :erm:
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Tbh they found the bomb casings and it's not hard to spot thermite ordnance at night. The fact that they called it what it is instead of "!!FLAMING الله أكبرBARRELالله أكبر BOMBS!! WHITEالله أكبر PHOSPHUROUS BANNED الله أكبرBOMBS PLEASE HELPالله أكبر" surprises me.
 
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MSF-Supported Hospital in Idlib Governorate Destroyed by Bombing

A busy hospital that served as a reference center for pediatric patients in the town of Millis, in Syria’s Idlib governorate, was destroyed by aerial bombing on Saturday, killing 13 people and depriving 70,000 people of essential medical care, according to the international medical humanitarian organization Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), which provides support to the facility.

Two aerial strikes hit the hospital directly and two hit the immediate vicinity at about 2 p.m. local time, killing four hospital staff members and nine other people, including five children and two women. Six other members of the hospital staff were wounded.
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http://www.doctorswithoutborders.or...-hospital-idlib-governorate-destroyed-bombing
 
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Former CIA director clearly wants peace in Syria, killing Russians and Iranians is the way to go ... :wtf:
[video=youtube;qGPuSxuT6pM]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qGPuSxuT6pM[/video]
 
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Last fall, just after Russian President Vladimir Putin entered Syria’s five-year-old civil war on the side of that country’s irredeemable Bashar al-Assad, Barack Obama rejected calls to step up U.S. aid to anti-Assad rebels and instead backed UN peace talks to end the conflict.“We’re not going to make Syria into a proxy war between the United States and Russia,” the U.S. President said in October. “This is a battle between Russia, Iran, and Assad against the overwhelming majority of the Syrian people. This is not some superpower chessboard contest.”

What sounded like wishful thinking then has proved to be just that. The “quagmire” that Mr. Obama predicted his Russian rival was getting into has turned out to be both a tactical and propaganda victory for Mr. Putin that has decisively turned the Syrian war in Mr. Assad’s favour.This despite U.S. moves to increase the flow of weapons to the CIA-backed rebels battling the Syrian leader. The Syrian conflict was and is a U.S.-Russia proxy war reminiscent of the Cold War. Mr. Obama has spent his presidency preventing the United States from being drawn into yet more foreign conflicts that only drain his country’s morale and resources without increasing its security.

But an obsession with avoiding past mistakes can sometimes lead to making bigger ones. That’s the case in Syria, whose civil war has metastasized into a geopolitical chess game with massive stakes for the West, global security, and the future of the Middle East.

Of course, it remains first and foremost a humanitarian crisis whose scale in death and suffering will forever tarnish Mr. Obama’s legacy. The negotiation of a “cessation of hostilities” in February allowed the Obama administration to claim it was doing something to end the bloodshed. But, quite predictably, Mr. Assad’s forces and their Russian accomplices have indiscriminately violated the ceasefire agreement, even denying humanitarian aid to Syrian civilians trapped in the warfare. They have shown no mercy for women or children, bombed hospitals and lied shamelessly about whom and what they’re targeting – making a mockery of the United Nations.
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http://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/obamas-failed-syrian-strategy/article31351065/
 
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Good to see IS still losing ground.

Syrian women have been filmed burning the burqas Isis forced them to wear in a celebration of the militants being driven out.

“Damn this stupid invention that they made us wear,” one woman said as she set light to the black garment. “We’re humans, we have our freedom.”

The video released by the Kurdish Anha news agency, crowd of women and children cheered as the fabric went up in flames in the city of Manbij.

After adding her burqa to the fire, another woman described how Isis militants had abused civilians and abducted older boys and men.

“They banned television, the telephone, they took all the meat, they took all the bread, we've been living in hunger,” she said.

“They took our men and killed them, they trapped our people in prisons, we want them back.”

The footage appeared to have been filmed by reporters embedded with the dominantly Kurdish Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), who are advancing on Isis territory backed by international air strikes.
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http://www.independent.co.uk/news/w...eing-freed-from-isis-manbij-sdf-a7173671.html
 
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Not only niqab burning, but spontaneous beard cutting as well.

Joy In Syria's Manbij As Rebels Liberate Islamic State-Held City
Residents of the Syrian city Manbij are seen celebrating in the streets after Islamic State is pushed out.
14:06, UK,
Saturday 13 August 2016

Incredible pictures have captured civilians' joy after rebel fighters liberated the Syrian city of Manbij from Islamic State.

Men are seen cutting their beards and women setting fire to niqabs as they celebrate in the streets.

Islamic State imposes strict restrictions on the way people dress and how men keep their facial hair - reportedly vigorously enforced by religious police.

Other freed residents of Manbij are seen smoking cigarettes. Civilians in IS-held cities have spoken of public floggings and fines for people caught smoking.

Weeping with joy, civilians hug fighters from the Syria Democratic Forces (SDF) after being evacuated from the final IS-held neighbourhood.
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http://news.sky.com/story/joy-in-syrias-manbij-as-rebels-liberate-islamic-state-held-city-10533867
 
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Russia has deployed bomber aircraft to Iran for air strikes on rebels in Syria, the Russian defense ministry confirmed on Tuesday.As the main backers of the regime of Syrian president Bashar al Assad, Russia and Iran have long been de facto allies in the Syrian conflict. But the two countries had been reluctant to forge direct military ties between them… until now.

The Tu-22M3 Backfire and Su-34 Fullback bombers launched their first air raids from Hamedan air base in western Iran on Tuesday and struck ISIS and Jabhat Al Nusra militants in Aleppo, Deir Ez Zor and Idlib, according to the defense ministry.

“The strikes have eliminated five large ammunition depots with armament, munitions and fuel, training camps of militants near Serakab, Al Ghab, Aleppo and Deir Ez Zor cities, three control centers of militants near the cities Jafra and Deir Ez Zor as well as a significant number of militants,” the Russian military stated in a release.

Russian Su-30 and Su-35 fighter jets deployed to Hmeymim air base in western Syria escorted the bombers over militant territory. “All Russian aircraft have returned to the [Hamedan] airfield after accomplishing the combat task,” according to the defense ministry.

The bomber deployment marks the first time since World War II that Russian troops have operated from Iran. After that war, Iran became a close U.S. ally and one of the biggest buyers of American weaponry. The Islamic Revolution of 1979 toppled the pro-American regime and, for the next 37 years, Tehran barred foreign forces from openly using bases in its territory.

The Syrian war changed all that. And the gradual lifting of international military sanctions—a consequence of Iran agreeing to dismantle its nuclear weapons program—could accelerate Iran’s realignment as an ally of Russia. Moscow recently asked Tehran to allow it to route cruise missiles over Iranian territory for strikes in Syria. And Iran has been negotiating to acquire new fighter jets from Russia to begin rebuilding its dilapidated air force.
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http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/08/16/russia-teams-up-with-iran-to-bomb-syria.html
 
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