Tag: Syrian civil war

On Tuesday morning, Syrian regime-affiliated military planes bombed a school that serves as a shelter for refugees in Ein Tina on the outskirts of Quneitra.

Putin also stressed that Iranian troops are not present in the de-escalation zone in southern Syria.

Meanwhile, Russian troops are completing the takeover of southwestern Syria.

The warplanes allegedly fired two missiles that struck targets and caused "material damage," according to Syrian state television news reports.

“Every day (people are standing) at the Israeli border, every day, calling on Israel to protect them or to allow international forces to (protect them)… we wish (the Israelis) to came here and protect these people, either under the United Nations flag or the Israeli flag. I don’t know how, but the politicians have to solve this problem.”

A week ago, Syrian State TV reported an Israeli attack near the Damascus airport.

Hundreds of people volunteered to bring goodie bags from Tel Aviv, Jerusalem, Ramat Gan and elsewhere to Syrian children.

As many as 160,000 Syrians have fled the war zone to the Jordanian and Israeli borders, where neither country is prepared to let them in.

"Israel is working to create a region without violence in Syria, and possibly the region will include unarmed Syrian fighters, and police who be allowed to operate without heavy weapons."

The sanctions against Iran "will be implemented by all entities operating in Syria ... The policy of this administration is to stifle Iran."

Both Israel and Jordan fear that Iranian militias reach the border and become assimilated by the Assad regime.

Israeli jets would have had to evade the Russian S-300 ground to air missile systems positioned in Syria, and fly the distance of roughly 380 miles in each direction.

"The coalition has been targeting the military positions in a desperate attempt to raise the collapsed morale of the terrorist organizations due to the achievements of the Syrian army," SANA explained.

The Russian request also places constraints on Syrian President Bashar Assad, who is dependent on Russia in his fight against the rebels.

After apparent withdrawal, Hezbollah and Iranian fighters return “in regime vehicles and dressed in regular Syrian army uniforms,” rebel commanders tell The Wall Street Journal • Israel “is very much aware of basically everything happening in [its] backyard.”

In recent days it has been reported that Russia is deploying military and military police units along the border between Syria and Lebanon, a move the Russians have undertaken without prior coordination with Hezbollah.

Russia is widely believed to have agreed not to interfere with Israeli military action taken against Iranian forces and Iranian-backed Hezbollah fighters in Syria.

Also slated for departure from southern Syria, according to the Observatory, are ISIS affiliates Hayyaat Tahrir al-Sham and Jaysh Khalid Ibn al-Walid.

The officers used a taser on the man but that didn't seem to slow him down, at which point one officer shot him in the leg.

Lavrov failed to mention that the original layout for the "de-escalation zone" at Israel's doorstep had been designed by Russia, Turkey, and Iran, and authorized an Iranian military presence some three miles away from Israel's Golan Heights border.

Is President Assad delusional? Probably – you can't be reduced to the post of Mayor of Damascus and still call yourself President of Syria without a hefty doze of delusional thinking.

One of those zones was supposed to be handed over to Iran, which was planning to rule over the rebel-controlled south, along the Syrian border with Israel and Jordan.

The Syrians want the Israeli attacks to stop and figured out how to stop them.

It is possible the UNDOF is evacuating due to the current tensions between Iran and its proxies, and Israel.

The shelling was believed to have been “spillover” from the Syrian civil war taking place on the other side of the border.

In the years since the Syrian civil war began, in 2011, area sick and pregnant women were admitted in a field hospital set up by the IDF for the Israel-aligned rebels and their families on the Israeli border.

The Iranian Revolutionary Guards have established a new militia named Brigade 313 in Southern Syria.

In the end, President Trump who has been so adamant about the folly of Obama's nuclear deal with Iran, is signing off on allowing the Iranian threat against the Jewish State to come in a thousand miles closer.

The Syrian Democratic Forces coalition on October 20 officially announced at a news conference that the city had been liberated from ISIS.

The IDF issued a statement following the operation: We will not tolerate any attempt to harm Israeli sovereignty.