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Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Aleppo, death toll rises as international outrage mounts
2016-04-30
[WASHINGTONPOST] The battered Syrian city of Aleppo faced another wave of Arclight airstrikes and shelling Friday, activists said, killing worshipers at a mosque and damaging a clinic after an earlier air blitz left dozens dead, including patients and staff at a main hospital.

The attacks -- apparently carried out on both sides -- further eroded efforts to rebuild a cease-fire and halt what a United Nations
...a lucrative dumping ground for the relatives of dictators and party hacks...
 envoy described as a "monstrous disregard for civilian lives" by all factions in the conflict.

More than 200 people have been killed in the past week in Aleppo from pro-government Arclight airstrikes and rebel barrages on regime-held neighborhoods, said a Britannia-based monitoring group, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.

Doctors Without Borders said the corpse count in an Arclight airstrike on al-Quds hospital in Aleppo on Wednesday had risen to 50, including six medical staff, and one of the area’s last pediatricians. The hospital was supported by both Doctors Without Borders and the International Committee for the Red Thingy, which also condemned the strike.

"The sky is falling in Aleppo," Muskilda Zancada, the head of the Doctors Without Borders mission in Syria, said in a statement Friday. "The city, consistently at the front lines of this brutal war, is now in danger of coming under a full offensive. No corner is being spared."
Posted by:Fred

#2  Doctors Without Borders said the corpse count in an Arclight airstrike on al-Quds hospital in Aleppo on Wednesday had risen to 50, including six medical staff,

Ought to start calling themselves Médecins sans défense aérienne. An autoclave is no substitute for a ZSU.
Posted by: SteveS   2016-04-30 22:21  

#1  Bad news: "Fragile truce" phase is over.
Good news: Still in the "Rebuild the cease-fire" phase.
Posted by: DepotGuy   2016-04-30 20:52  

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