In al-Nabek, the authorities seized large amounts of weapons and ammo including RPG launchers, an Israeli LAW rocket, homemade rockets, explosive devices of various sizes, dynamite, and 15 bags of materials used for manufacturing explosive.

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Syrian troops are being involved in street fighting in Adra, located 20 kilometres north east of Damascus, which is occupied by the armed extremists. According to media reports, the military command has decided not to use the artillery there, taking into account the fact that militants are using peaceful civilians as human shields. Army units, which are storming the houses in Adra, have managed to save dozens of the Alawite, Duz and Christian families, which were seized by the militants, the Al Ahad television reported. And still, the terrorists have executed more than 90 captives, including women and children, the Al Ahad television said.

(30.August) Children in the Syrian province of Aleppo earlier this week suffered napalm-like burns after an incendiary agent was dropped on their school by what rebels say was a government jet.

(30.September) We had travelled to Syria to film two British doctors from the UK charity Hand in Hand for Syria providing care to parts of the country where the medical system is barely functioning. (..)

Within an hour of being there we received the first sign of what was to come.

Auf einmal fielen Fässer vom Himmel.

A source at Aleppo Police Command said that the terrorists on Monday fired a mortar shell at al-Kuhruba al-Mohdatheh School for the basic education stage in New Aleppo, claiming the life of a schoolgirl and injuring three others.

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Israel ruled guilty of genocide; the nuclear elephant in that region; and the ‘armies’ recruited to doctor Wikipedia.

600 Tote, 160.000 Flüchtlinge – diese dramatische Bilanz zieht Frankreichs Verteidigungsminister Jean-Yves Le Drian nach einem Blitzbesuch in der Zentralafrikanischen Republik.

Michel Djotodia, in charge of the former French colony since seizing power in March, dismissed three members of his government this weekend following a wave of Muslim-Christian clashes which have left hundreds dead.
Djotodia has lost control of his former fighters, whose abuses have sparked the creation of Christian militia forces.

South Sudan‘s President Salva Kiir declared a curfew in the capital Juba on Monday after overnight clashes between rival factions of soldiers followed months of tension between Kiir and his sacked deputy.

Gunfire rang out in Brazzaville, the capital of the Republic of Congo, on Monday as the army raided the residence of the country‘s former deputy intelligence chief, according to a security source and French radio RFI.

The decision by the court in Diyarbakir, the regional centre of Turkey‘s mainly Kurdish southeast, came despite the country‘s top court ruling this month that the long-term detention of another MP pending trial was unconstitutional.

With its reported effective range of 400 kilometers (250 miles), the Iskander does not fall into the category of intermediate-range nuclear missiles banned by the 1987 Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty between Russia and the United States.
The missiles deployed in Kaliningrad could hit NATO targets located in Poland, Lithuania and even in Germany, however.

The US, Britain and France do not have many options left except to try to control the jihadi Frankenstein’s monster that they helped create in Syria and which is already helping destabilise Iraq and Lebanon.