“Israeli aggression targets Mazzeh area in Damascus,” the official Sana news agency‘s newsflash read.
The attack follows a deadly wave of strikes in and around the Syrian capital on Thursday which killed 23 people, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights war monitor.
Damascus, SANA-15 civilians were martyred and 16 others got injured in Israeli aggression on Mazzeh and Qudsaya areas in Damascus.
“At about 15:20 p.m. on Thursday, Israeli enemy launched an air aggression from the direction of the occupied Syrian Golan, targeting a number of residential buildings in Mazzeh neighborhood in Damascus and Qudsaya area in Damascus countryside, resulting in the martyrdom of 15 people and the injury of 16 others, including women and children, ” a military source said.
“Nearly at 17:00 today, the Israeli enemy launched an aerial act of aggression from the direction of occupied Syrian Golan, targeting a residential building in Sayyidah Zaynab area of Damascus Countryside, which led to the martyrdom of seven civilians, including children and women, and the injury of twenty others, in addition to causing material damage to private properties” a military source said.
The war monitor said Syria was hit by two airstrikes early Thursday — one in Kafr Sousa and the other in al-Qusayr in the countryside of the central province of Homs.
“At about 2:05 am on Tuesday morning the Israeli enemy carried out an air aggression with military aircraft and drones from the direction of the occupied Syrian Golan, targeting a number of points in the city of Damascus. “A military source said in a statement.
The air defense forces responded to the aggression’s missiles and downed some of them “the military source added.
It appears that Turkey, despite the commitments it made to Russia, not only finds it very hard to impose its will on the militias but is in no hurry to do so. It sees control of Idlib as a bargaining chip it can use to win concessions from Moscow over other parts of Syria. Turkey argues that Russia hasn’t kept its end of the bargain to evacuate Kurdish forces from the border area between it and Syria, in particular from the cities of Manbij and Tell Rifaat. Thus, in response to Moscow’s demands to expel militants from Idlib, Ankara is demanding that the Russians move ahead with their pa
Shortly after the Damascus bombings, government shells landed in a rebel-held town in northern Syria, killing at least 10 people, four of them children. The attack, part of the government campaign to regain control of areas still in opposition hands, was the worst violence in the region since a truce in March last year was negotiated by Turkey and Russia, allies of the opposition and Syrian government, respectively.
Dozens of buses arrived in Aleppo province from Damascus, Homs, Hama, Lattakia and Tartous governorates as a number of buses also left Aleppo through the western entrance of Aleppo, al-Nasr roundabout and the beginning of Aleppo-Damascus highway, according to SANA.
The reopening of the airport comes days after the Russian-backed Syrian army said it had seized rural areas northwest of Aleppo, a major strategic gain in weeks of bombing of the last rebel bastion in northwestern Syria.
The Russian President‘s visit to Syria on Tuesday marked the second time ever that he has traveled to the Arab Republic.
The Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria (NES) announced the deal with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad‘s government in a Sunday evening statement.
“This deployment occurred through coordination and agreement with the Self-Administration Authority for Northern and Eastern Syria and the Syrian Democratic Forces,” the statement said.
Syria‘s Kurds have announced a groundbreaking deal with Damascus on a Syrian troop deployment near the border with Turkey, as Ankara presses a deadly cross-border offensive that has sparked an international outcry.
The announcement on Sunday came as the United States ordered the withdrawal of almost its entire ground force in Syria.
Al-Makdad rief die Kurden zudem auf, an die Seite der Regierung in Damaskus zurückzukommen und sich nicht „selbst in die Hölle zu stürzen“, nachdem die Kurden von den USA im Stich gelassen worden seien.
Der Kommandant der von Kurden dominierten Syrischen Demokratischen Kräfte (SDF), Maslum Abdi, teilte mit, dass eine Partnerschaft mit Syriens Präsident Baschar al-Assad eine mögliche Option sei.
The US should never have been there in the first place (though reading Hillary Clinton‘s late-night response to Trump it is clearer than ever that the world dodged more than a bullet when she failed to win the presidency).
The Kurdish people should have never placed their fate in the hands of a far off and thoroughly unreliable US “ally” which has picked them up only to put them back on the shelf so many times before. Syrian Kurds belong to Syria and it is with their Syrian neighbours and government that the SDF should have been in alliance.
“At that time we may hold talks with Damascus or the Russian side to fill the void or block the Turkish attack, so this may develop and there could be meetings and contacts in case of a vacuum,” he added.
A senior Syrian government official, in return, said Damascus is ready to welcome Syria‘s Kurds back into the fold after Washington left them to face Turkish military threats alone.
„In order for the AANES to continue to safeguard the people‘s rights and play a role in all Syria, an agreement with Damascus is necessary. This is why we have repeatedly tried, either directly or through Russia, to hold dialogue with Damascus and reach a political agreement to end the Syrian crisis and confront the agendas seeking the division of the Syrian territory“, Badran Jiakurd, an adviser to the Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, said.
In der Tat, da die Wahl Israels weniger als einen Monat entfernt ist und Premierminister Netanyahu und seine Verbündeten in den meisten Umfragen einen erheblichen Rückstand aufweisen, scheint es, dass die Politik darin besteht, ihre Angriffe in der gesamten Region zu eskalieren, in der Hoffnung, mehr Stimmen aus der kriegslüsternen Rechten zu bekommen.
He noted that once the construction of the railroad is completed, Iraqis will be able to travel to different parts of Iran and Syria and exchange goods with Syrian cities, including the port of Latakia.
The Syrian minister added following its completion, the railway network will be linked to those of Central Asia as well as China and Russia.
Zur Begründung hieß es, es drohe eine humanitäre Katastrophe. Das traf auf den geplanten Angriff auf Idlib mutmaßlich ebenso zu wie auf den Krieg zur Rückeroberung von Mossul und Raqqa, an dem sich Berlin allerdings aktiv beteiligt hatte; die Bundeswehr hatte unter anderem wichtige Aufklärungsdaten beschafft. Während Berlin Druck ausübte, um die Niederwerfung der Jihadisten in Idlib zu verhindern, drohten die USA, Großbritannien und Frankreich gar mit Luftangriffen (german-foreign-policy.com berichtete [3]). Der erfolgreiche Versuch, die Region Idlib weiter der Kontrolle der Regierung in Damaskus zu entziehen, ist in der Öffentlichkeit stets damit begründet worden, man müsse dort ehrbare „Rebellen“ vor dem Zugriff der Regierungstruppen schützen.
(9.1.2019) Syria’s National Security chief Major General Ali Mamlouk has reportedly paid a visit to Saudi Arabia, amid promising signs that the incumbent Damascus government led by President Bashar al-Assad is being admitted back into the Arab world after nearly eight years of foreign-sponsored militancy.
Meetings of the Executive Committee of the World Peace Council kicked off at Damascus University on Saturday with the participation of delegations from 40 Arab and foreign countries.
The commanders from the four countries, which have joint operation rooms to coordinate the fight against the Daesh terror group, attended the conference on Saturday.
The Iraqi Defense Ministry said it had received delegations led by deputy chiefs of staff to „strengthen cooperation and coordination in terms of security and intelligence among these countries.“
Several explosions went off around an ammunition depot at the Mazzeh military airfield in southwestern Damascus on Saturday night.
Unter Berufung auf militärische Quellen berichtete die Staatsagentur Sana, dass ein Kurzschluss in einem Munitionsdepot die Explosionen ausgelöst haben soll. Zuvor war über einen möglichen israelischen Luftangriff spekuliert worden.
An oil production agreement signed by the Syrian government and the Kurds is working, a well-informed source has told Sputnik.
In keeping with the accord, inked a few months ago, “the Kurds are extracting 50,000 barrels of crude each day at al-Rmeilan and Jabsah oilfields.
(30 Apr 2018) Syrian President Bashar Assad met a visiting Iranian official in Damascus on Monday who claimed what he called „the project“ of the United States and its allies in Syria had been defeated. Alaeddin Boroujerdi, who heads Iran‘s parliamentary committee on national security and foreign policy, spoke hours after reports of a missile attack that killed dozens of Iranian fighters in northern Syria on Monday.
The Syrian Arab Army (SAA), alongside their Palestinian allies, continued their field operations inside the southern districts of Damascus on Sunday.
Led by their Republican Guard, the Syrian Arab Army managed to score a big advance inside the Yarmouk Camp, liberating a large part of the northwestern corridor of this historically Palestinian district.
As depicted in the photos below, the war has taken a great toll on the Yarmouk Camp, as most of the buildings in this district have been destroyed by the brutal battles that have taken place over the last seven years of this war.
In the coming hours, the Syrian Arab Army’s elite Tiger Forces are expected to begin their long-awaited assault on the Yarmouk Camp, which will mean the Islamic State will be under attack from one of the most important axes in southern Damascus.
(23.4.2018) Die syrische Armee hat heute eine Rebellenenklave bei Damaskus bombardiert und kommt der Rückeroberung der gesamten Hauptstadtregion immer näher. Ziel sei ein von islamistischen Aufständischen gehaltenes Gebiet, berichteten das staatliche Fernsehen und die der Opposition nahe stehende Syrische Beobachtungsgruppe für Menschenrechte mit Sitz in Großbritannien.
Butcher of Damascus. Gasser of children. Baby Killer of Syria. Tool of Moscow. Cruel despot. Monster. These are all names the western media and politicians routinely heap on Syria’s president, Bashar al-Assad. He has now become the top Mideast villain, the man we love to hate.
Mittelost-Führer, die der US-Linie folgen und Israel freundlich gesinnt sind, werden von der amerikanischen Regierung und ihren zunehmend gezähmten Medien immer wieder als „Staatsmänner“ oder „Präsident“ bezeichnet. Es gibt den guten alten Präsidenten Abdel Fattah al-Sisi in Ägypten, den Militärdiktator, der die einzige Demokratie dieser Nation zerstörte und ihr eine eiserne Herrschaft aufzwang. Aber wir werden von den US-Medien nie von den politischen Morden, den Verschwundenen, den Geheimgefängnissen und den Folterungen in Ägypten hören. Oder dass Ägypten seit der Ära von Anwar Sadat und Nachfolger Hosni Mubarak einer der drakonischsten Polizeistaaten der Welt ist.
(15.4.2018) Regime forces expected to target area that was the cradle of uprising and a stronghold for Western-backed non-jihadist rebels