Regime Offensive News Today

The bbc news at one. A man has been shot dead by police in a pre planned operation near the m62 motorway in huddersfield. He has been named as yasser yaqub. West Yorkshire Police say an officers gun was fired and five people have been arrested. They also say the operation was not related to terrorism. The independent Police Complaints commission has sent investigators to the scene. Well our correspondent danny savage is at ainley top in west yorkshire. It is only in the last few minutes yasser y...

Fighters. if you look at the area of southwestern syria and what has been going on there next door in the provinces, that is where the regime offensive has happened for a month. they re-captured that area with the exception of one isis pocket there that they have been battling to try to recapture for days with intense bombardment and fighting. perhaps the attempt by isis to divert regime troops away from the isis pocket, but a reminder that the group, while it lost 98% of the territory as u.s. o...

Amman, jordan. shes been speaking with women trapped in eastern ghouta. how are they surviving, jomana? >> reporter: well, you know the situation is absolutely horrific. a humanitarian catastrophe is unfolding inside eastern ghouta. when you talk to the aid agencies. and when you talk to people inside. they are really terrified of what is going on right now. youve got this regime offensive. the regime is closing in on different parts of eastern ghouta, and people are really concerned about whats...

Overnight on parts of that enclave and also barrel bombs raining down on other parts this morning. reports of more casualties. of course, its very difficult for us to verify and independently confirm these casualty figures. so we depend on medical workers, rescue workers there, and also local activists who are reporting more than 250 people killed since in uptick in violence that began on sunday with this regime offensive. hundreds of others have been wounded. and it is so difficult to treat the...

Bill: there is new video out of syria today showing the civil war moving closer to the heart of the capital city damascus. those are government warplanes pounding rebel-held areas near the city. troops loyal to the president are fighting the rebels for control of a strategic road that links the city with the main airport. the fighting is part of a larger regime offensive to clear out rebels from the strongholds around damascus. martha: well, some new numbers just out show president obama on the ...

Forces loyal to al qaeda. people on the ground say it was part of the opposition forces trying to keep hold of that town under a regime offensive. with them planning a meeting thursday to discuss options there is little doubt the regime is rushing to make the most of its superior firepower and targeting opposition leaders. on state tv today, 500,000 dinar bounty, 410,000 for the capture of mustafa abdal jalil. he is an opposition leader and in a moment an exclusive interview with abdal jalil bef...

So there are possibilities for so much going wrong still. we have to wait and see what happens in the coming hours. so its the ceasefire holding that will be critical. >> and we have yet to see how this plays out. but just from your reporting, your experience covering this, we do know what its like for people living in that situation, the hell that they undergo each day. help our viewers to understand what its like for life for many of these people in this part of the world. >> reporter: well, y...

Comes after a ceasefire is much worse than the one that preceded it. so everyone will see if that means that guns will fall silent. this is a part of the country where violence has been raging in recent months. weve seen a regime offensive at the border with jordan where regime forces and allied militias have been taking territory from the free syrian army rebels a s in that part of done. and just to put it in context, this ceasefire that is meant to go into effect is the product of an agreement...

Regime offensive continues in eastern aleppo. >> during the last two weeks, hatta al sham front and the abu amara battalion are alleged to have abducted and killed a number of unarmed civilians trying to leave their groups. >> the syrian army wad was said to have stopped fighting in aleppo and was focused on getting civilians out, but as fred saw firsthappened, the fighting does continue. >> this is what the syrians alleged halt in fighting looks like in aleppo. the call to prayer pierced by exp...