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Breaking News: Blast hits Syrian bus convoy near Aleppo, nearly 40 killed

April 15, 2017 By administrator

Blast hits Syrian bus convoyNearly 40 people have lost their lives and several others sustained injuries when a powerful bomb explosion struck near several buses carrying people from two villages in Syria’s northwestern province of Idlib, as they were waiting to enter the city of Aleppo.

The blast hit Rashidin district on the western outskirts of Aleppo, located some 355 kilometers north of the capital, Damascus, as buses were stopping at a checkpoint on Saturday afternoon. At least 39 people were killed and 48 others injured as a result, Lebanon-based Arabic-language al-Mayadeen television news network reported.

Syrian state TV reported that a bomber blew up an explosive-laden car at the site. The buses were evacuating residents of Kefraya and al- Foua villages under a deal reached between the Damascus government and foreign-sponsored Takfiri militant groups last month.

State-owned Arabic daily Tishreen said the explosion took place as children were collecting being distributed at the stop point.

In late March, the Syrian government and militant groups struck a deal that envisaged the transfer of 16,000 people from Foua and Kefraya in exchange for the evacuation of militants and their families from al-Zabadani and Madaya towns in the southwestern province of Rif Dimashq.

Residents of Foua and Kefraya were agreed to be transferred to the outskirts of Aleppo City, the coastal province of Latakia or Damascus, while the gunmen and their families would leave for Idlib City.

More than 30,000 people are expected to be evacuated under the deal, which began on Wednesday with an exchange of prisoners between militants and government forces.

The Syrian Arab Red Crescent (SARC) is supervising the implementation of the deal, which is described as the biggest population swap of its kind.

The explosion on Aleppo’s outskirts came shortly after a bomb explosion targeted a military camp in Syria’s western coastal province of Latakia, leaving nearly a dozen people dead and several others injured.

Local sources, speaking on condition of anonymity, said a car rigged with explosives was detonated by remote control in Salma village, which lies northeast of the provincial capital city of Latakia.

No militant group or individual has claimed responsibility for the attack yet, but such assaults bear the hallmarks of those carried out by the Daesh Takfiri terrorists.

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A first convoy from Europe arrives in Iran via Armenia

November 26, 2016 By administrator

eu-convoyvia-armeniaThe first convoy arrived in Iran from Germany via a new multimodal transit route connecting Iran and Europe via the Black Sea, said the secretary of the Iranian International Transport Association Golyamhossein Amiri, according to Iran.ru .

Iran.ru said that this new road could replace in the future that which crosses the territory of Turkey. “Two freight containers have arrived in Iran via the Armenian border,” – said Amiri. “The containers were shipped from Hamburg via a relatively short route,” – said the official.

“Over the last two years we have had problems at the Turkish border when it comes to transporting goods from Europe. This has prompted us to enter into negotiations with several other countries for alternative routes “- said Golyamhossein Amiri.

Tehran and Ankara have long been involved in a transit dispute related to the different fuel prices in the two neighboring countries. In addition, transit trucks have to wait long hours to move from Turkey to Iran. The queue at the border often reaches 15 kilometers. The agreements signed by the customs officers of the two neighboring countries are unable to solve this problem.

The security of goods in transit is another issue that hinders the transport of goods by Turkey. In Turkey, several Iranian lorries have been the victims of voluntary fires.

The Iranian government advised truckers to take two different routes: one by Azerbaijan, Russia and Belarus, and the other by Armenia, Georgia, the Black Sea, Romania and Bulgaria. “The cost of transport through the [new] path seemed to be less than 1-2% [compared to the Turkish itinerary],” Amri said.

Saturday 26 November 2016,
Stéphane © armenews.com

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Mystery over who bombed Turkish convoy allegedly carrying weapons to militants in Syria

November 26, 2015 By administrator

© IHH Humanitarian Relief Foundation / Facebook

© IHH Humanitarian Relief Foundation / Facebook

A Turkish convoy, which according to some reports was transporting weapons to terrorist organizations, has been hit by apparent airstrikes in northwestern Syria.

Footage released online by the Istanbul-based Humanitarian Relief Foundation (IHH) shows plumes of smoke from the burning trucks and people running about in panic. At least 20 trucks were engulfed in flames.

The mission, however, wasn’t sponsored or organized by the IHH, the group said. No organization has as yet confirmed that the convoy belonged to them.

“Our teams helped to extinguish the fire… The trucks do not belong to us and there is no information on who bombed them,” Mustafa Özbek, an official from İHH, told Reuters.

At least seven people were killed and 10 injured in the incident, according to the Turkish Anadolu agency. The trucks were reportedly heading to the town of Azaz in northwestern Syria.

Since the news emerged, media has been furiously speculating about who was behind the attack, what the trucks were transporting, what the convoy’s humanitarian mission was, or maybe it was carrying a more sinister load.

One of the aid workers who survived the incident said the trucks had been deliberately targeted, Reuters reported.

The nature of the ‘humanitarian aid’ is also in question. Turkish media and the IHH say the trucks were transporting humanitarian aid to refugees in Azaz.
However, the Turkish Cumhuriyet newspaper cited sources close to the Syrian government saying the convoy was delivering weapons to terrorist organizations

The Hawar news agency reported that Turkey repeatedly sent convoys with arms to the Al-Nusra Front and other terrorist organizations under the guise of humanitarian aid.

Rus hava saldırısının alevler içerisinde bıraktığı yardım TIR'larına Sivil Savunma ekiplerimiz müdahale ediyor. pic.twitter.com/zbM5bI6AgN

— İHH (@ihhinsaniyardim) November 25, 2015

Reports on Twitter went further – they identified the arms as allegedly “Docka machine guns” and “small arms with ammunitions.”

In the wake of the recent downing of a Russian Air Force bomber over Syria by Turkish fighter jets, some reports suggested the Russians were “avenging” the pilot’s death. Many media outlets thought it was the work of Vladimir Putin.

Anadolu cited ‘Syrian opposition sources,’ who claimed that Russian jets attacked the convoy.

Other sources suggested the airstrikes were carried out by Syrians, without specifying whether it was members of the Syrian Army loyal to President Bashar Assad, or one of the various Syrian rebel groups.

Neither Turkish, nor Russian authorities have yet commented on the incident. However, before the Azaz incident Tayyip Erdogan commented on an event that took place in 2013, when a Turkish security service convoy was stopped on the way to the Bayırbucak region in northwestern Syria. The Turkish president said: “If there were any weapons, then what? And if there weren’t, what would change?”

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