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2019-11-03 Syria-Lebanon-Iran

Russian airstrike kills six civilians in Syria

[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] An ~~Arclight~~ airstrike
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Saturday by Russia killed six civilians including a child in the embattled opposition bastion of Idlib in northwestern Syria, according to a war monitor.

The strike hit the village of Jaballa in the south of the Idlib region, taking the lives of all six from the same family, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.

The Britannia-based monitor, which relies on sources inside Syria, says it determines who carries out an airstrike according to flight patterns, as well as aircraft and ammunition involved.

Observatory head Rami Abdel Rahman said it was the bloodiest such Russian air raid in two months since Moscow announced a truce for the surrounding area on August 31.

Since then, eight other civilians have been killed in Russian airstrikes on different dates in the region, he said.

The Idlib region, which is home to some three million people including many displaced by the eight-year war, is controlled by Syria’s former al-Qaeda affiliate.

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’s forces launched a devastating military campaign against Idlib in April, killing around 1,000 civilians and forcing more than 400,000 people to flee their homes.

Posted by Fred 2019-11-03 00:00|| || Front Page|| [12 views ] Top
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#1 Where's Herb?

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2019-11-03 02:10|| 2019-11-03 02:10|| Front Page Top

#2 He's ok with Russians doing it.

Posted by Dron66046 2019-11-03 02:14|| 2019-11-03 02:14|| Front Page Top

#3 Because they don't target goat herders?

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2019-11-03 02:16|| 2019-11-03 02:16|| Front Page Top

#4 I think we must also consider the source. Brits are always bitching about Russians, it figures they would see this first and shout it out.

I really wish Russia could get along with Israel.

Posted by Dron66046 2019-11-03 02:27|| 2019-11-03 02:27|| Front Page Top

#5 Right Dron... I'd really want to cozy up to Pooty-poot.

Posted by Mercutio 2019-11-03 07:33|| 2019-11-03 07:33|| Front Page Top

#6 When Boosh said he could see into Vlad's soul the media swooned. How times change.

Posted by M. Murcek 2019-11-03 13:02|| 2019-11-03 13:02|| Front Page Top

#7 If they aren't shooting when the "human rights monitors" examine the corpses, they're civilians.

Posted by Rob Crawford 2019-11-03 13:38|| 2019-11-03 13:38|| Front Page Top

#8 I really wish Russia could get along with Israel.

It seems to me that Vladimir Putin has a sentimental connection with what he thinks of as the Russian diaspora in Israel — the Jews who fled the Soviet Union and afterward. But he has a stronger connection with Syria as a legacy Soviet client. And to be fair, Israel is not likely to send masses of troublesome refugees fleeing toward Russian territory, committed jihadis embedded among them, nor will Israel give Russia a Mediterranean port. So for Russia, Israel can mostly be safely ignored.

Posted by trailing wife 2019-11-03 14:36|| 2019-11-03 14:36|| Front Page Top

#9 So for Russia, Israel can mostly be safely ignored.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2019-11-03 14:49|| 2019-11-03 14:49|| Front Page Top

#10 Well sure, g(r)omgoru. Every once in a while, Israeli airplanes are noticed flying invisibly through the Russia-supplied warning radar on their way to and from bombing something.

Posted by trailing wife 2019-11-03 15:45|| 2019-11-03 15:45|| Front Page Top

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