“Look, when I saw that Russia’s placing military forces, air power, some ground power, and anti-aircraft weapons in Syria, I decided that the wisest thing to do was to go and speak to Mr. Putin directly”, Netanyahu said prior to his snap visit to Moscow.
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The United Nations appealed for an immediate cease-fire in Syria on Tuesday as spiraling violence pushed the country to the brink of one of the worst humanitarian crises in the seven-year war.
The Syrian state news agency SANA said three people were killed in the government-controlled Old City in Damascus when rebels launched a series of missiles. A further 26 civilians were killed on Wednesday.
Haley told the U.N. Security Council that Russian Federation has delayed adoption of a council statement condemning the use of chemical weapons, including a reported chlorine gas attack Thursday in the opposition-held Damascus suburb of eastern Ghouta that injured over 20 civilians including children.
“The people here eat one meal a day, if they can buy that meal”. Aid workers are struggling to find space to accommodate them, and as many as 750,000 more could flee if the violence continues, he said.
“People on the outside think that Russian Federation and the Syrian regime are killing armed fighters, but this is completely false”.
Airstrikes were carried out on Tuesday against the village of Tarmala, in the northern Syrian Idlib Province, with the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reporting at least five civilians killed in the attack. “We back it up as necessary with action”, he said. The media cited reports of dozens killed and wounded.
Activists say hospitals were among the targets hit.
Idlib province is now home to 2 million people – half of them displaced from other areas of the country.
At least 300,000 people have been displaced in Idlib since mid-December, when the most recent regime push on the area began. They should know this.
“The humanitarian situation has dramatically deteriorated, and that’s why we are ringing alarm bells”.
Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Tuesday issued a statement defying USA warnings against any Turkish advance on Manbij.
On Tuesday, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan called on the U.S.to withdraw its troops from Manbij and renewed a threat to expand Ankara’s military offensive in Syria to this town.
The Russian-Turkish commission to oversee ceasefire breaches in Syria recorded 14 cases of violation in the last 24 hours, Russia Defense Ministry said Wednesday.
The YPG played a key role in the defeat of the ISIS in Syria, and received United States backing and support to do so.
Large elements of the YPG or Syrian Democratic Union Party (PYD) make up the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), the USA -backed confederation of Arab and Kurdish paramilitaries who flushed ISIS from its Syrian capital of Raqqa previous year.
At least 1,028 People’s Protection Units (YPG) militants have been “neutralized” since the beginning of Turkey’s “Operation Olive Branch” in Syria’s Afrin, the Turkish General Staff said on February 8.
The Turkish ambassador to The Gambia has defended the military action along the Syria’s Afrin Region, saying the fight against the Kurdish People’s Protection Units (YPG) militia and its political wing – the Democratic Union Party (PYD) is created to nueutralise the threat posed by these terrorist elements.
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“In a risky situation in Syria, (Turkey) should not add war to war”.
