The Syrian army said on Thursday that it will shoot down any Turkish warplanes violating the Syrian airspace.

October 20, 2016 By administrator

syria-will-shoot-turkish The Syrian army said on Thursday that it will shoot down any Turkish warplanes violating the Syrian airspace.

ALEPPO (Sputnik) — The Syrian army said on Thursday that it will shoot down any Turkish warplanes violating the Syrian airspace in response to recent Turkish airstrikes on Kurdish villages in northern Syria that allegedly killed 150 civilians.

“The Syrian army warns that it is ready to shoot down Turkish warplanes by any means available if they attempt to once again violate the Syrian airspace,” the army general command said in a statement.

According to the statement, the Turkish authorities are responsible for the deaths of some 150 civilians in Turkish airstrikes on the villages of Hassajek, Vardia and Hasia on Wednesday night.

IDeA Foundation pledges to help bring Aleppo-Armenians home

October 8, 2016 By administrator

syrian-refugees The IDeA Foundation announced on Saturday, October 8 that it’s offering financial support to bring Syrian–Armenian refugees to Armenia.

According to Aleppo Compatriotic Charitable Organization, 600 hundred letters from families in Aleppo have already been received, asking for help to reach Armenia. Given security concerns, those people will first be moved to Lebanon by land to later be transferred to Armenia by air. The organization said each of the Armenians needs $500 for the trip.

“The IDeA Foundation is committed to improving the lives of Armenia’s citizens. Yet, we do not do this in isolation. We are aware of what is happening in the world around us and we feel an obligation to participate in doing what can be done to alleviate pain and suffering wherever possible,” it said in a statement.

“As we watch the continuing violence in Syria, particularly in Aleppo, we feel compelled to offer financial support to bring Syrian-Armenian refugees to Armenia. We are prepared to join other organizations and individuals around the world in this effort. This is something that must happen now. Even those who stayed and continued to stay throughout the years of fighting are now looking for safe haven elsewhere. We believe it is our duty as Armenians to help them.”

“We are joined in this by several private foundations and we are working with the Armenian government to ensure that those who come are offered the basic official facilitation necessary to be able to legally seek refuge in Armenia,” the Foundation added.

“In the years following the Genocide, the Armenians of Aleppo were the first-line saviors for Armenian survivors in Turkey. Today, they are looking for first-line saviors themselves.”

A new Syrian rebel group has vowed to ‘resist’ Turkey’s military incursion

September 7, 2016 By administrator

The Syrian National Resistance announces its formation Tuesday. ANHA News via Now Lebanon

BEIRUT – A group claiming to represent “national Syrian forces” has vowed to fight Turkey’s military incursion in Syria, announcing its formation in a north Aleppo town that is under the administrative control of the de-facto autonomous Kurdish government.

On Tuesday, the Syrian National Resistance held a press conference in Tel Rifaat to introduce its founding declaration, which was read out by Rezan Hedo, an independent member of the US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces’ political wing.

“Oh Syrian brothers, people of the region have suffered from the decades of Turkish-Ottoman rule, [which] has left us with only ignorance, backwardness, hatred, sectarianism and fighting between brothers at the same time as our wealth was taken away as well as parts of our land,” the speech, which was replete with nationalistic terminology, began.

The new group went on to launch further broadsides against Turkey, accusing Syria’s northern neighbor of perpetrating “the worst forms of genocide” against people in the region, including Arabs, Kurds, Armenians, Greeks, Assyrians and Chaldeans.

“Today, [Turkey] has returned with a new look but with the same [old] mentality; to occupy other parts of our Syrian land after sowing discord and infighting between Syrians through their support for terror,” the statement added, in reference to Ankara’s military operation in northern Syria.

The Syrian National Resistance’s announcement, which made no explicit reference to Kurdish forces in northern Syria, presented its goals, which include:

1. “Resolving the disputes between the different Syrian components and uniting their powers to build a united, democratic Syria”;

2. “Confronting the Turkish occupation and deterring it from achieving its objectives; as well as restoring all Syrian land, from Jarablus to Liwa al-Iskenderun,” in reference to Turkey’s Hatay Province, which was annexed from Syria in 1939, and;

3. “Future work with all national forces to liberate every inch of occupied Syrian land.”

On August 24, Syrian rebel groups supported by the Turkish army crossed into Syria in an offensive to roll back ISIS and prevent Kurdish-led troops from controlling more territory along the border. These troops have since cleared ISIS from the border, while at the same time engaging with battles against the SDF north of Manbij.

A Turkish soldier on an armoured personnel carrier waves as it is driven from the border back to their base in Karkamis on the Turkish-Syrian border in the southeastern Gaziantep province, Turkey, August 27, 2016. REUTERS/Umit Bektas

The Syrian Kurdish Democratic Union Party (PYD) and its People’s Protection Units (YPG) vociferously oppose the Turkish campaign, with PYD co-chief Saleh Muslim warning Ankara that it “will be defeated in the Syrian quagmire, just like ISIS.”

The PYD has made no official statement on the formation of the Syrian National Resistance, which was covered extensively by the ANHA news agency, which is close to Syria’s Kurdish fighting forces.

ANHA described the Syrian National Resistance as a coalition of “Syrian national forces and figures,” without specifying which groups joined the new formation.

Rezan Hedo, the head of the group’s political bureau, explained in aninterview with Lebanon’s Al-Akhbar that the Syrian National Resistance counts on “support from Syrians of different political orientations, between [regime] supporters and opponents.”

He also stressed that anti-Turkish alliance has no ties with the international coalition fighting ISIS, which backs the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces.

Source: http://www.businessinsider.com/a-new-syrian-rebel-group-has-vowed-to-resist-turkeys-military-incursion-2016-9

Terrorist State of Turkey targets Kurdish forces south of Syria’s Jarablus

August 28, 2016 By administrator

One soldier killed in rocket attack on Turkish tanks amid clashes between Turkey-backed Syria rebels and Kurdish YPG.

Turkish jets and artillery have targeted Kurdish forces south of the strategic town of Jarablus, according to a monitor and local sources, as Turkey continues a major military offensive inside northern Syria.

Turkey first sent tanks across the border on Wednesday as part of a two-pronged operation against Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) fighters, as well as Kurdish-led forces.

The UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said Saturday’s air strikes and shelling hit the village of Amarneh, which was captured recently by the US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF).

The strikes came as Turkish-backed Syrian rebels clashed with Kurdish fighters on the ground.

The Jarablus Military Council, which is allied with the SDF, said the air strikes in Amarneh marked an “unprecedented and dangerous escalation” after Turkish artillery shelling targeted Kurdish YPG forces, the backbone of the SDF alliance, on Friday.

The council said there were injuries, without giving any further details, but warned that the escalation threatened to “endanger the future of the region” and vowed to stand its ground.

Wladimir van Wilgenburg, an analyst based in the nearby Kurdish-controlled city of Qamishli, told Al Jazeera that the clashes had increased throughout Saturday.

“There have been reports that SDF fighters have blown up a Turkish tank. The fighting is ongoing,” he said.

Later on Saturday, one Turkish soldier and three others were wounded in a rocket attack on a Turkish tank south of Jarablus late on Saturday, according to Turkey’s state-run Anadolu news agency, in the military’s first fatality since the launch of its offensive to partly help Syria rebels capture Jarablus from ISIL, also known as ISIS.

Turkish military sources said the rocket was fired from territory held by the Kurdish YPG.

Earlier on Saturday, the Northern Sun Battalion, an SDF faction, had said in a statement that it was heading to “Jarablus fronts” to help the council against “threats made by factions belonging to Turkey”.

UNICEF calls for action to improve lives of over 100,000 children in Aleppo

August 20, 2016 By administrator

Aleppo has seen intense fighting over the past few months, with the Syrian army and local militia forces having managed to encircle large groups of terrorists in some districts of the city, Sputnik agency reported.

“What human being can see the stunned suffering of Omran Dagneesh, the small boy rescued from a destroyed building in Aleppo, Syria, and not feel an overwhelming sense of empathy? Can we not extend the same empathy to the more than 100,000 children also trapped in the horror that is Aleppo? They are all suffering things no child should suffer – or even see,” UNICEF Executive Director Anthony Lake said in a Friday statement.

He stressed that action must be taken in order to improve the lives of Aleppo children.

“Children of Omran’s age in Syria have known nothing but the horror of this war waged by adults. We all should demand that those same adults bring an end to the nightmare of Aleppo’s children,” Lake stressed, as quoted by the source.

Istanbul the Crime capital of the world: Gay Syrian man mutilated, beheaded

August 4, 2016 By administrator

gay-man-murdered ANKARA – Agence France-Presse,

The body of a gay Syrian refugee was found mutilated and beheaded two days after he disappeared in central Istanbul, a local rights group has said.
Muhammed Wisam Sankari went missing on July 23 after leaving his home in the Fatih district, Turkish gay rights group Kaos Gay and Lesbian Cultural Research and Solidarity Association (Kaos GL) reported on Aug. 3.
On July 25 his body was found mutilated and decapitated, the association said.

He arrived in Istanbul a year ago after fleeing Syria’s civil war but wanted to leave Turkey because he feared for his life.

He was threatened by male gangs carrying knives who said they wanted to rape him, friends told Kaos GL.
His body was so mutilated, he was only recognizable from his clothes, one of his friends who went to identify the body, said the rights organization.

“They cut Wisam violently. It was so violent, two knives had broken inside of him. They beheaded him. His upper body was beyond recognition, his internal organs were out. We recognized our friend from his trousers.”

The Syrian had also been kidnapped and raped five months before his death, one of his housemates told the rights organization.

“They took him by car to a forest where they beat and raped him,” the refugee’s housemate, Rayan, said.
He added that they previously had to leave a house because they were gay, Kaos GL said.

Bulgaria Takes to Court Three Syrians on Charges of Terrorism

July 27, 2016 By administrator

Rumyana Arnaudova, spokesperson of the Prosecutor’s Office of Bulgaria.

Bulgarian prosecutors have charged three Syrian citizens with attempts to illegally cross the border into Turkey and travel onward to Syria to join as fighters the Islamic State and Muslim Brotherhood organizations, Sofia-based bTV broadcaster reported on Wednesday.

The thee men, aged 20, 22 and 25 years, had been granted refugee status in Germany. In January 2016 they decided to travel back to their home country to join Islamist militants, bTV said, citing a spokeswoman for the Bulgarian prosecution.

The Syrians, whose name bTV gave as Almohammad Abdulhamid, Al Abdallah Fadi and Al Fandi Yasim, entered Bulgaria from Greece on 7 February 2016 with the intention to enter Turkey and then reach Syria. They spent two days in the cities of Plovdiv and Sofia before travelling to the Border with Turkey.

Prosecutors found evidence of the plans of the three Syrians to become Islamist fighters in Syria on their mobile phones, both text and photos, according to the prosecution spokesperson.

The Syrians were detained by Bulgarian police while attempting to illegally cross the border into Turkey near the town of Svilengrad on 9 February.

A Bulgarian court will consider the charges against the three Syrian nationals on 2 August, bTV said. The Syrians face sentences of up to 10 years in jail, if convicted.

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Is Munich Shooter A Complete Cover Up? Yes acording to shoebat.com he is Pro Turkey Syrian Islamist

July 23, 2016 By administrator

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by Walid Shoebat on July 23, 2016

The Munich Massacre Is A Complete Coverup. The Munich Shooter’s Facebook Including His Family Background Shows He Is Not Iranian But A Syrian Islamist Pro Turkey

Ali David Soboly is no Iranian but pro Turkey’s Islamists from Syria. That plus he had a record with the Interpol and was being watched.

First of all. There is only one way to spell Sonboly in the Arabic (سنبلي), but in the English it can be spelled multiple ways (like Sunbulli, Sonboly), yet it is always the same spelling in Arabic: سنبلي

Unless one knows Arabic, they do not know where to look. Examining clan Sonboly and even Sonboly’s own Facebook where the Turkish flag is a main symbol.

Okay, perhaps he had a fetish for the red color and the crescent moon? But his clan also are of Turkish origin living in Syria and Turkey and this same Turkish flag as well as the Syrian flag is the pride of this clan as can be seen from Facebook.

The case for this clan’s love of Turkey’s Erdogan is ironclad. Plus he lived in the Turkish neighborhood.

Why then advertise him as an Iranian which would make him a Shiite Muslim? Is it possible that Germany wants to avoid the repercussion when Germans know that Turks or Syrian refugees who are entering Germany by the droves are the culprit?

The clan is from Homs Syria where some are scattered in Yemen, Saudi Arabia, the U.S. and Canada. A quick peruse of this clan can show their love for Turkey (here, here this one lives in Chicago, sunni with a Hijab from Homs, Syria, see also here, and here, and here, and here these are anti-Assad pro-Turkey’s brand of Islam.

And the Arabic version of Sonboly yields the same results. One clan member, Ziyad Sonboly likes sniping and he is clearly Syrian with a Syrian flag.

If Ali Sonboly was Iranian, what then is he doing with the flag of Turkey hovering behind him on his Facebook?

There is also a photo of him being arrested and what few know is the Sonboly was being watched by Interpol. They show you his face as a kid when he is a mature individual as the video also shows.

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Source: http://shoebat.com/2016/07/23/the-munich-massacre-is-a-complete-coverup-the-munich-shooters-facebook-including-his-family-background-shows-he-is-not-iranian-but-a-syrian-islamist-pro-turkey/

Turkey & Saudi supported Syrian rebels guilty of war crimes: Amnesty International

July 5, 2016 By administrator

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BEIRUT – Agence France-Presse,

Islamist rebels and jihadists in Syria are guilty of war crimes, Amnesty International said in a report on July 5, accusing them of “a chilling wave of abductions, torture and summary killings.”

The London-based rights group named five Syrian anti-regime factions operating in northern Syria: al-Qaeda affiliate al-Nusra Front, hardliner Ahrar al-Sham, Nureddin Zinki, the Levant Front and Division 16.

The groups have detained and tortured lawyers, journalists, and children — among others — for criticizing them, committing acts seen as immoral, or being minorities, the report said. “Many civilians live in constant fear of being abducted if they criticize the conduct of armed groups in power or fail to abide by the strict rules that some have imposed,” said Philip Luther, head of Amnesty’s Middle East and North Africa program.

“In Aleppo and Idlib today, armed groups have free rein to commit war crimes and other violations of international humanitarian law with impunity,” he added.

The report is based on 24 accounts of abduction by anti-regime groups between 2012 and 2016 and another five cases of torture.

Halim, a humanitarian worker, was kidnapped and tortured by Nureddin Zinki rebels in Aleppo city until he confessed to a crime.

“When I refused to sign the confession paper the interrogator ordered the guard to torture me,” he said.

“He then started beating me with cables on the soles of my feet. I couldn’t bear the pain so I signed the paper,” Halim said.

Jihadist and hardline religious groups operate their own religious courts which punish crimes such as apostasy or adultery with death.

Saleh was held by al-Nusra in late 2014, and was told by his guard that five women accused of adultery would “only be forgiven by death.”

He said he later watched a video showing al-Nusra militants publicly killing one of women execution-style.

Amnesty said it documented violations in Idlib, which is held by al-Nusra and its allies, and Aleppo.

Syria’s conflict began in March 2011 with anti-government protests but has since broken down into all-out war, leaving more than 280,000 people dead.

Rights groups have accused both the regime of Bashar al-Assad and anti-government factions of indiscriminate attacks, torture and detention.

Amnesty called on world powers to “pressure armed groups to end such abuses and comply with the laws of war.”

The report said regional powers must also stop providing weapons or other forms of support to any factions involved in war crimes or other violations.

It said some of the accused groups “are believed to have the support of governments such as Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Turkey and the U.S.”

Over 700 doctors killed in 5-yr-long Syria conflict: UN Panel

June 21, 2016 By administrator

A United Nations investigative panel has raised concerns about civilian fatalities in Syria, saying over 700 physicians and medical staff have lost their lives during five years of crisis gripping the Arab country.

Paulo Pinheiro, head of the UN Commission of Inquiry on Syria, released the figure in a report published on Tuesday.

Airstrikes on medical facilities across Syria “have resulted in scores of civilian deaths, including much-needed medical workers,” Pinheiro told the Geneva-based UN Human Rights Council, adding, “More than 700 doctors and medical personnel have been killed in attacks on hospitals since the beginning of the conflict.”

“As civilian casualties mount, the number of medical facilities and staff decreases, limiting even further access to medical care,” he said.

The UN official further censured frequent raids on other facilities essential to civilian life, such as schools, markets, bakeries, mosques and water stations, noting, “With each attack, terrorized survivors are left more vulnerable.”

Elsewhere in his comments, Pinheiro said the UN commission was investigating allegations al-Nusra Front terrorist group “and other al-Qaeda-affiliated groups have recruited hundreds of children under 15” in Syria’s northwestern province of Idlib.

He also denounced rights violations by the Takfiri Daesh terrorist group in the violence-wracked country.

In a report published last week, the commission urged action against crimes committed by Daesh against the Izadi minority in Iraq and Syria, stressing that the Takfiri militants are still committing genocide against the Kurdish-speaking community.

Daesh was holding Izadis in conditions “that bring about a slow death,” selling women at slave markets, raping girls as young as nine, and drafting boys to fight for the terrorist group, according to the report.

Syria has been gripped by foreign-sponsored militancy since March 2011. Damascus says Saudi Arabia, Turkey and Qatar are the main supporters of the militants fighting the government forces.

UN Special Envoy for Syria Staffan de Mistura estimates that over 400,000 people have been killed in the Syrian conflict since March 2011. The UN has stopped its official casualty count in the Middle Eastern state, citing its inability to verify the figures it receives from various sources.

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