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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The Observatory estimates Assad controls a quarter of Syria, including cities where the bulk of the population live.
While U.S. coalition forces are busy fighting Islamic State terrorists, Bashar al-Assad is allegedly killing thousands of people in Syria. Not most Syrian rebels’ first and worst enemy, the Syrian regime.
Syria accused UN special envoy Staffan de Mistura of bias after he condemned the government for attacks against civilians.
Not only do these unconscionable tactics give locals a reason to turn to ISIS as a means of protection from Assad, but it can also radicalize people in the West as atrocities occur and world leaders do little.
Doma, located in the eastern Ghouta, has been heavily subjected to government raids.
As part of this development, the US Air Force (USAF) deployed six F-16 Fighting Falcons multirole jet fighters and 300 personnel to Turkey earlier this month. “All evidence shows that the overwhelming majority of the civilian victims in the Syrian conflict have been caused by the use of such indiscriminate aerial weapons”.
The country has been embroiled in a civil war since 2011.
“Any talk of political and peaceful solutions in the shadow of massacres and excusing the criminal from punishment will have no meaning in realizing stability in Syria”, said Khaled Khoja, head of the Turkey-based political opposition coalition, according to Reuters.
Syrian rebel fighters repelled Monday advances by the radical group of Islamic State (IS/ISIS) in villages of the northern countryside of Aleppo, near the Syrian border with Turkey, media sources reported.
In an exclusive interview with CNN conducted via Skype from Syria, Abu Iskander cited the U.S. training program when justifying whether or not the pro-U.S. Syrian rebels should engage Assad’s forces.
O’Brien warned, however, that such buffer areas would need to find ways of guaranteeing people’s safety.
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But the Turkish official said the anti-IS operations had been put on hold at Washington’s request so that they could be carried out jointly.
