Showing posts with label Moscow. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Moscow. Show all posts

Monday, 17 October 2016

Dozens dead in Aleppo airstrikes




*** including 14 from same family

Fourteen members of the same family -- including two infants and eight other children -- were killed on Monday, according to the activist group Aleppo Media Center, CNN report.

More than 30 people were killed in airstrikes that hit the Al-Qaterji neighborhood Sunday night, both the AMC and the UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.

Monday morning another round of airstrikes killed 14 more people in the al-Marjah neighborhood, all from one family, according to the AMC.

Among them, a pair of six-week-old infants and an eight year old, AMC said.

The death toll continued to climb as Russians helped bolster the Syrian army's air attack, after Moscow vetoed a United Nations Security Council resolution Saturday to halt the action in Aleppo and allow access for humanitarian aid.

As the strikes have continued, Western powers accused Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and his supporters of war crimes.


Both the US and UK have mulled potential economic sanctions against Syria and Russia due to the Aleppo crisis.

Wednesday, 25 November 2015

Russian war plan; Activists throw stones, eggs at Turkish embassy in Moscow






AFP
On Wednesday several hundred young activists  hurled stones and eggs at Turkey’s embassy in Moscow and brandished anti-Turkish placards after Ankara downed a Russian warplane on the Syrian border.

The activists broke several windows at the Turkish embassy as Moscow police urged them to stop the protest but did not intervene. According to an AFP photographer report from the scene,  some chanted slurs against Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, while one of the placards read; “Turkey you will remain without gas."