“These abhorrent actions underscore that the Assad regime has lost legitimacy and that the global community must do more to enable a genuine political transition”, said the statement.
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Syrian refugee children look out from their tent during a visit by United Nations (U.N.) Humanitarian Chief and Emergency Relief Coordinator Stephen O’Brien to their makeshift settlement in Saadnayel in Lebanon’s Bekaa Valley August 17, 2015.
Staffan de Mistura, the United Nations envoy to Syria and Iraq, spoke out against regime airstrikes in the city of Zabadani in July that had caused “unprecedented levels of destruction and many deaths among the civilian population”.
An American trained rebel fighter fires on a target in Syria. We will control new areas from ISIS and we will have to face Assad, shall we stay sitting without fighting Assad?
Strategic security firm The Soufan Group notes that the regime’s brutal treatment of civilians encourages people both inside and outside of Syria to support alternate groups that are fighting for power in the country, including the Islamic State (also known as ISIS, ISIL, and Daesh). “We don’t want to cry [as victims] on your TV screens, instead we want the Assad regime to be stopped”.
But the U.S. has declared what some have called “ISIS-free areas”, where rebels plan to operate, and regime forces are warned from entering.
Iskander expressed gratitude for the Pentagon program, labeling it a “dream”, but nevertheless lamented its “slow” pace. Iskander wears a Global Positioning System device to feed information to U.S. forces. More trainees-for example, our training in Jordan did 85-we should have been 500 there and another 500 in Turkey.
“We’ve been very careful not to put monikers or descriptions describing what this area is going to look like except to say our effort is focused on driving ISIL out of the region”, State Department spokesman Mark Toner said.
Government forces dropped 25 barrel bombs on the town, which is of crucial importance to Assad and Hezbollah because of its location at the Lebanese border and proximity to Damascus, the Observatory said.
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Cavusoglu said the moderate opposition forces can be deployed in the Syrian territories liberated from IS.
