BEIRUT - Syrian rebels warned on Friday they will target the
international airport of the northern city of Aleppo after firing at an
airliner preparing to take off, the first direct attack on civilian a
flight in the 21-month-old revolt.
ISTANBUL - Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan said on Friday
Patriot missiles being sent by NATO members to bolster Turkey's
defenses against a possible missile attack from Syria will be deployed
near the southeastern cities of Adana, Gaziantep and Kahramanmaras.
BEIRUT - Syrian rebels fired warning shots at an airliner
preparing to take off from Aleppo airport in the first direct attack on a
civilian flight since the uprising in Syria began 21 months ago, a
rebel commander said on Friday.
MOSCOW - Russia refuses to act as an intermediary trying to
talk Syrian President Bashar al-Assad into fleeing, Foreign Minister
Sergei Lavrov said in comments released on Friday.
BRUSSELS - Russia's president and European Union leaders failed
to narrow wide differences on Syria, immigration and a string of other
issues at a summit on Friday marked by testy exchanges over their
biggest bone of contention, energy policy.
UNITED NATIONS - The U.N. anti-genocide envoy warned on
Thursday that minority groups in Syria, including Syrian President
Bashar al-Assad's fellow Alawites, are at risk of major reprisal attacks
as the 21-month-old conflict escalates and sectarian violence
increases.
BRUSSELS - Russian President Vladimir Putin and European Union
leaders are likely to clash over issues ranging from Syria to trade,
energy and human rights on Friday when Putin holds his first talks in
Brussels since his re-election as president in May.
BRUSSELS - Russian President Vladimir Putin and European Union
leaders are likely to clash over issues ranging from Syria to trade,
energy and human rights on Friday when Putin holds his first talks in
Brussels since his re-election as president in May.
BEIRUT - Rebels began to push into a strategic town in Syria's
central Hama province on Thursday and laid siege to at least one town
dominated by President Bashar al-Assad's minority sect, activists said.
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UNITED NATIONS - A U.N. Security Council committee on Thursday
imposed sanctions on two Iranian firms that violated a U.N. arms embargo
on Tehran by shipping weapons to the Syrian government
I'll never understand America and the United Nations. They claim to be against terrorism and fight it yet they support the Syrian rebels? If firing arms at commercial jets isn't terrorism then what is?
ReplyDeleteUS is setting the stage as always, is part of a resolution established but most important recently empowered by george bush jr. To stay (to keep the ofensive) is great to see more now. #€arth2.0
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