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Iraqi Militias Join the NATO-Russian-Regime-Iranian Attacks on Sunni Muslim Arab Syrians in Aleppo, Hudreds Killed and Injured

August 8, 2016 

Editor's Note:

The coalition which fights the Islamic State and other Sunni groups in Syria consists of US-led NATO forces, Russian forces, Syrian Alewite government forces, Iranian-backed Shi'i militias, and Kurdish peshmerga forces. The coalition's continuous attacks have resulted in the killing of thousands of Iraqi Sunni Muslim Arabs and the eviction of thousands as a result of the destruction of their cities and villages.

Millions of Sunni Muslim Arabs have already left their cities and villages as the fighting intensifies towards an all-attack by the US-led coalition on Raqqa and Mosul, as well as by the Russian-regime attacks on other cities. The end outcome is going to be evicting (ethnic cleansing of) Sunni Muslim Arabs from Syria, particularly the upper Euphrates region of northwestern Iraq and northeastern Syria. 

For a background, read: 

Zionist Creative Destruction of the Middle East for the Benefit of the Apartheid Israeli Regime

 

18 people -including 10 members of one family- were killed by warplanes in the town of Tedef, Aleppo, September 8, 2016	Turkish forces in Jarablus, Syria, September 2 2016

Russian warplanes bombard Idlib with cluster bombs, August 28, 2016	A man rescued from a building rubble in Aleppo, Syrian, September 2016

 

Syrian army and allies regain southern Aleppo district: monitor

Thu Sep 8, 2016 12:46pm EDT

Reuters, BEIRUT --

Syria's army and its allies have regained an important Aleppo district lost to rebels last month, state media and a war monitor said on Thursday, and were pressing an offensive south of the city to further squeeze the insurgents.

If sustained, the advance in Ramousah would reverse nearly all gains rebels made in a push last month, tighten a blockade over rebel-held eastern Aleppo and ease access for the army into government-held western districts through the city's south.

A second line of attack, aimed at villages south of Aleppo and supported by what a pro-government fighter called "dusk to dawn" bombardment, is intended to isolate Telat al-Eis, a hill captured by rebels in May that commands fire over the region.

However, a rebel source said insurgents still held part of Ramousah and that though the army was mobilizing forces, the Jaish al-Fatah coalition of Islamist groups was still present at the southern Aleppo front.

The battle for Aleppo has become the focus both for President Bashar al-Assad, backed by Shi'ite militias from Iraq and Lebanon, Iran's Revolutionary Guards, and Russian air power, and for the Sunni rebels seeking to overthrow him.

In early August the rebel advance into southern Aleppo gave them control over the residential district of Ramousah, a complex of military colleges immediately to its west and the 1070 Apartment Blocks district west of that.

It opened a corridor into the rebel-held parts of Aleppo that are home to at least 250,000 people and had been under siege for weeks, while forcing the government to access its own areas in the city by a longer, more precarious route.

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The following news stories are from the website of the US Department of Defense ( http://www.defense.gov/News ):

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Coalition Strikes Continue Against ISIL in Syria, Iraq

SOUTHWEST ASIA, Sept. 7, 2016 —

Strikes in Syria

Attack, fighter and remotely piloted aircraft conducted five strikes in Syria:

-- Near Abu Kamal, a strike destroyed five ISIL oil tanker trucks.

-- Near Raqqah, a strike destroyed two ISIL oil tanker trucks.

-- Near Manbij, a strike engaged an ISIL tactical unit and destroyed three fighting positions.

-- Near Mara, two strikes engaged two ISIL tactical units and destroyed three fighting positions and a mortar system.

Strikes in Iraq

Attack and fighter aircraft conducted 12 strikes in Iraq, coordinated with and in support of Iraq’s government:

-- Near Albu Hayat, a strike engaged an ISIL tactical unit and destroyed a rocket cache, two buildings and three bunkers.

-- Near Hit, a strike engaged an ISIL tactical unit and destroyed a vehicle and a building.

-- Near Kisik, a strike engaged an ISIL tactical unit and destroyed a tunnel entrance, a vehicle and three heavy machine guns.

-- Near Mosul, six strikes engaged an ISIL tactical unit and destroyed five vehicles, two dozers, a front-end loader, an excavator and inoperable coalition equipment and damaged a tunnel.

-- Near Qayyarah, two strikes engaged an ISIL tactical unit and destroyed three vehicles, two dozers and eight rocket rails.

-- Near Ramadi, a strike engaged an ISIL tactical unit and destroyed a vehicle, a building and a mortar system

Coalition Strikes Continue Against ISIL in Syria, Iraq

SOUTHWEST ASIA, Sept. 6, 2016 —

Strikes in Syria

Attack and fighter aircraft conducted seven strikes in Syria:

-- Near Raqqah, two strikes destroyed two ISIL oil pumpjacks, an oil tank and a headquarters building.

-- Near Dayr Az Zawr, three strikes destroyed 13 ISIL oil tanker trucks and a tractor trailer.

-- Near Manbij, two strikes engaged an ISIL tactical unit and destroyed a fighting position.

Strikes in Iraq

Bomber, fighter, and attack aircraft conducted seven strikes in Iraq, coordinated with and in support of Iraq’s government:

-- Near Beiji, a strike destroyed an ISIL rocket rail and a cave entrance.

-- Near Kisik, a strike destroyed two ISIL fighting positions, two tunnel entrances, an observation post and a rocket firing position.

-- Near Mosul, four strikes engaged three ISIL tactical units and destroyed an assembly area, a fighting position, a vehicle and a headquarters building.

-- Near Ramadi, a strike destroyed a rocket system.

Coalition Strikes Continue Against ISIL in Syria, Iraq

SOUTHWEST ASIA, Sept. 5, 2016 —

Strikes in Syria

Attack and fighter aircraft conducted nine strikes in Syria:

-- Near Raqqah, six strikes destroyed eight ISIL trailers, three oil pump jacks, and 42 oil tanker trucks.  

-- Near Manbij, two strikes engaged two ISIL tactical units and destroyed two vehicles and a fighting position.   

-- Near Mar'a, a strike destroyed an ISIL mortar system. 

Strikes in Iraq

Bomber, fighter, and remotely piloted aircraft conducted three strikes in Iraq, coordinated with and in support of the Iraqi government:

-- Near Baghdadi, a strike destroyed two ISIL communication towers.

-- Near Ramadi, a strike engaged an ISIL tactical unit and destroyed a vehicle. 

-- Near Sultan Abdallah, a strike engaged an ISIL tactical unit and destroyed an assembly area, a fighting position, and two vehicles.   

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The following news stories are from the website of the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights ( http://www.syriahr.com/en/?p=50353 ):

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13 airstrikes target Dará countryside

SOHR, September 8, 2016

Dar'a province:

Aerial bombardment targeted areas of the eastern countryside and al-Ashari area near Tafas what wounded a number of civilians. 13 airstrikes targeted areas of al-Herak, Busr al-Harir, Alma, Ashari, Sora, and al-Herak, no reports of losses. unknown militiamen opened fire on a media activist's house in Om al-Miazin town. A man was killed by aerial bombardment on al-Sora town today.

Regime forces advance in al-Ramousa area

SOHR, September 8, 2016

Aleppo province:

Regime forces backed by non-Syrian militants were able to advance in al-Ramousa area and other areas south and southwest of Aleppo after losing control on these areas since the 31st of July 2016 leading to human losses and injuries between civilians and fighters.

244 children and women between 700 others killed during 40 days of military operations in Aleppo

SOHR, September 8, 2016  

Regime forces backed by non-Syrian militants were able to advance in al-Ramousa area and other areas south and southwest of Aleppo after losing control on these areas since the 31st of July 2016 leading to human losses and injuries between civilians and fighters.

Where the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights documented since the 31st of July until today the 8th of September 2016 the death of 696 civilians, including 160 children and 84 citizen women, they are: 252 civilians including 56 children and 26 citizen women were killed by bombing of the warplanes and helicopters on the neighborhoods of Aleppo city, and 8 civilians were killed in artillery and missile shelling by the regime forces on areas in the neighborhoods controlled by the factions at the eastern section of Aleppo city, and 198 civilians including 64 children and 29 citizen women were killed when shells launched by the factions at regime forces’ controlled areas in Aleppo, as well as two citizens one of them is a woman were killed by the factions’ selling on areas at Sheikh Maqsood neighborhood controlled by YPG in Aleppo. 

The Observatory also documented in the same period the death of 184 civilian citizens including 34 children and 22 citizen women, they were killed by the bombing of warplanes and helicopters on several areas in the western, southern and northern countryside of Aleppo province, in addition to the death of a man by a sniper shot at the road of Aleppo – Afrin; where Kurdish activists accused the factions of shooting and killing him, 2 killed in unknown circumstances, and 3 killed by IS suicide attack in al-Khelfari area. 

Also 41 persons at least -including 6 children and 6 citizen women minimum- and 13 of them -at least- are from one family were killed in two massacres carried by the Turkish warplanes, when they targeted areas of Maghr al-Srisat and Jobb al-Kusa in the southern countryside of Jarabulus, while they were controlled by the Military Council of both Jarabulus and Manbij. 

While the air and missile strikes, the raids of Russian and regime’s warplanes and shells’ falling at the neighborhoods of Aleppo city and the countryside have resulted in hundreds of injuries, some of them are still in critical situations.

Continued clashes in Aleppo

SOHR, September 8, 2016

Aleppo province:

Clashes took place after midnight between regime forces and rebels around al-Ramousa and al-Ameria areas, and other areas south and southwest of Aleppo amid aerial bombardment on the area. Clashes also took place between the two sides around Bustan al-Basha. Areas of al-Ameria and al_Mashehad were exposed to bombardment by regime forces. Rebels fired shells on regime controlled areas of Jamia al_Zahraa.

Israel warplanes target Syrian brigade in Quneitra

SOHR, September 8, 2016

al-Quneitra province:

Massive explosions have been heard in the northern countryside, caused by 3 Israeli missiles fire by a warplane targeted the first brigade near Hadar area, no reports of losses.

Turkish border guards kill four people from one family from the countryside of Deir Ezzor

SOHR, September 8, 2016

Deir Ezzor Province:

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights: The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights learned that four people from the same family -including two children and two women- from the village of Abu Khashab in the eastern countryside of Deir Ezzor, were targeted and killed by the Turkish border guards while they were trying to cross towards Turkish side from Ras al-Ayn (Sri Kaneh) in the countryside of Hasaka.

At least 18 people -including 10 members of one family- were killed by warplanes in the town of Tedef

SOHR, September 7, 2016

Aleppo Province:

 The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights: It rose to 18, the number of people killed due to bombing by warplanes on areas in Tedef town in the northeastern countryside of Aleppo, including 14 civilians they are 10 civilians including a child from one family, and four unidentified others so far, in addition to four members of the “Islamic state” were killed in bombing at the town yesterday morning, while it rose to 11, including a child and a teenager, the number of persons who were killed in the massacre that was carried out by warplanes when they targeted areas in al-Sekkary neighborhood in Aleppo city, the death toll is expected to rise because there are some people in critical situation.

Turkish forces shell Afrin countryside, killing and injuring about 16 most of them from the self-defense forces and Asayish

SOHR, September 7, 2016

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights learned that six fighters of self-defense and members of the internal Kurdish security forces “Asayish” were killed, and about 10 other persons were wounded, most of them are Asayish and self-defense members, including civilian citizens, they were killed and injured in the intense heavy shelling by the Turkish Forces on positions of the fighters in Surkeh area in the northern countryside of Afrin northwest of Aleppo province, the death toll is expected to rise because there are some people in critical situation.

Missile strikes target Douma cause casualties

SOHR, September 7, 2016

Rif Dimashq Province:

 The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights: Areas in the city of Douma in the Eastern Ghouta were bombed with four missiles at least believed to be ground-to-ground targeted places in the city, which injured several people, and confirmed information about two martyrs.

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