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Syria's Idlib De-escalation Zone Shelled 36 Times in Past Day, Russian Military Says © AP Photo / Ugur Can Sputnik International https://sputniknews.com/middleeast/202103161082363440-syrias-idlib-de-escalation-zone-shelled-36-times-in-past-day-russian-military-says/ MOSCOW (Sputnik) - The Jabhat al-Nusra terrorist group (banned in Russia) shelled Syria's Idlib de-escalation zone 36 times over the past 24 hours, Rear Adm. Alexander Karpov, deputy head of the Russian Defense Ministry's Center for Reconciliation of Opposing Sides in Syria, said at a b...

Published Wednesday, March 17, 2021 6:32AM EDT BEIRUT -- Daraa was an impoverished, neglected provincial city in the farmlands of Syria's south, an overwhelmingly Sunni Muslim backwater far from the more cosmopolitan cities of the country's heartland. But in March 2011 it became the first to explode against the rule of President Bashar Assad. Assad's decision to crush the initially peaceful protests propelled Syria into a civil war that has killed more than a half million people, driven half the population from their homes and sucked in foreign military interventions that hav...

Syrian Arab Republic: Cross-Border Humanitarian Reach and Activities from Turkey (December 2020) Format CONTEXT Shelling in northwest Syria in December continued at lower levels than observed in November, still concentrated on areas around the M4 and M5 highways. Sporadic airstrikes were also recorded, mainly in Kabani in northern Lattakia governorate, while civilian casualties continued to be reported across the northwest due to shelling and explosive hazards including improvised explosive devices (IEDs) and landmines. The arrival of winter saw an increase in incidents of fires affecting IDP...

Homs in 2014: "Kneel and submit!" Foto: Yuri Kozyrev / NOOR / laif It wasn't the heat that made every step on the well-worn asphalt into such a great effort, as if a sticky sludge were grabbing at your feet. No. It was the fear. Fear that I felt too. "You don't have to go on," said those who were already standing in the middle of the road, clearly visible in the light of the streetlights and completely exposed to possible gunfire. The demonstrators on that evening in mid-August 2011 were standing just before an intersection in Homs, the third largest city in Syria. If mobile units from the ...

ALEPPO: After a decade of violence and conflict, the civil war in Syria has exacted a heavy toll on its population. Millions have been killed, hundreds of thousands have been injured or are displaced, and an untold number are in need of humanitarian assistance. Particularly affected in this terrible situation are the children. The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) reports that about 90 percent are in need of urgent aid as they have been profoundly impacted by violence, displacement, severance of family ties and lack of access to vital services such as education and healthcare. All the...