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Post by Nichole on Sept 24, 2022 4:19:13 GMT 12
The Latest: Syria's military announces new Aleppo operation
By Associated Press
Published: 20:55 BST, 22 September 2016 | Updated: 20:56 BST, 22 September 2016
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BEIRUT (AP) — The Latest on the war in Syria (all times local):
10:50 p.m.
Syria's military command for Aleppo says it is commencing operations in the contested city's rebel-held eastern quarters.
Syria's permanent representative to the United Nations, Bashar Jaafari, right, talks with Russia's U.N.
Ambassador Vitaly Churkin before the start of a Security Council meeting, Wednesday, Sept. 21, 2016, at U.N. headquarters. (AP Photo/Julie Jacobson)
In a statement carried on state news Thursday the command calls on citizens to keep away from "terrorist groups." It says it will provide shelter to any residents leaving the neighborhoods through designated safe passages.
It was not clear from the statement whether it will start ground operations or air raids.
Activists say at least 12 people have been killed in presumed government or Russian air strikes and shelling on the eastern quarters Thursday.
A spokesman for the Nour el-Din el-Zinki rebel factions in the city says government forces have not been able to make any advances in the city in the last 24 hours.
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8:25 p.m.
The White House is pushing back on Syrian President Bashar Assad's claim that the U.S.
responsible for the collapse of the cease-fire.
Assad said in an Associated Press interview that the U.S. intentionally struck Syrian troops last week. But White House spokesman Josh Earnest says the U.S. has been responsible by acknowledging publicly that the strike was likely an error by the U.S.-led coalition.
Earnest says in contrast, Assad hasn't "owned up" to targeting hospitals and refugee camps or to using barrel bombs and chlorine gas against civilians.
He says Assad has "contributed greatly to violence, chaos and bloodshed" in Syria.
Earnest is also faulting Russia for its role in failing to ensure Syria lives up to its commitments under the cease-fire.
He says, quote, "that creaking sound you hear is Russia's international credibility taking an additional hit."
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8:20 p.m.
Activists say at least 12 people have been killed in fierce bombing on the contested city of Aleppo, as diplomats in New York struggle to revive a cease-fire for Syria.
A spokesman for the Civil Defense search-and-rescue group said rescuers are still trying to reach victims of the presumed Syrian government or Russian air raids Thursday on neighborhoods in the city's opposition-held eastern quarters.
Ibrahim Alhaj says "for anyone who hears the airstrikes from yesterday, at 7 p.m., until now, they would say it is a world war in Aleppo."
Video from the city and the nearby town of Kafr Dael show massive fires fueled by what appears to be incendiary munitions.
The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitoring group says 14 civilians have been killed in the east of Aleppo since the morning.
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8:00 p.m.
Residents say a 23-truck convoy has delivered humanitarian assistance to a Damascus suburb besieged by government forces, as the U.N.
resumes its aid convoys to the country's opposition areas.
Local media activist Wassim al-Ahmad says the trucks to Moadamiyeh carried medical and food supplies from various U.N. agencies and the International Committee of the Red Cross.
The Syrian Arab Red Crescent, which supervised the delivery, says the convoy covers the needs of 7,000 families, and another convoy to support 5,000 more will soon follow.
The government says 35,000 people live in the suburb.
The U.N.
suspended all convoys to besieged and hard-to-reach areas Tuesday after a suspected Russian or government air strike razed a Red Crescent warehouse and convoy in opposition territory in the country's north.
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7:30 p.m.
A top Russian diplomat is throwing cold water on the U.S.
Secretary of State's proposal that flights be banned over some parts of Syria.
Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov is quoted Thursday by the state's Tass news agency as saying, "to my mind, this scheme will not work, at least until the United States and other actors engaged in this process make sure that entities that see war as the only way to resolve the problem stop using force."
US Secretary of State John Kerry has called for called for all warplanes to halt flights over aid routes in Syria.
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6:30 p.m.
Turkish military officials say their warplanes and artillery units have attacked Islamic State group targets in Syria, after rockets fired from across the border injured at least six people in a Turkish border town.
The officials say Turkish Howitzers and multi barrel rocket launchers attacked IS positions in the Tugali, Dabik and Turkmen Bari regions, soon after two rockets struck the town of Kilis, wounding five children and an adult.
In a statement sent to journalists Thursday, the officials say Turkish F-16 jets later attacked more IS group targets near the regions of al-Rai, Ihtimalat and al-Athaniyah, after a third rocket hit the town. They say a number of IS militants were killed in the strikes.
Turkey's military routinely retaliates to rocket attacks fired from Syrian territory.
The officials provided the information on condition of anonymity, in line with Turkish government regulations.
__Suzan Frazer in Ankara
5:00 p.m.
The State Department's spokesman has dismissed claims made by Syrian President Bashar Assad during an interview with The Associated Press as "ridiculous," adding they show that Assad has lost his legitimacy to govern.
In the interview, Assad tells AP that the U.S.
deliberately targeted Syrian government soldiers in an airstrike that killed dozens. The U.S. has said the strike was accidental and they had intended to target Islamic State group militants. Assad says the U.S. lacks "the will" to join forces with Russia in fighting extremists.
State Department spokesman John Kirby says "it's difficult to see how these ridiculous claims deserve a response, except to say they prove yet again the degree to which Assad has lost his legitimacy to govern."
He says it underlines how vital it is for the international community to "achieve a political solution that gives the Syrian people a voice in their future."
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4:45 p.m.
Syrian state TV says buses have evacuated 261 residents from the last rebel-held neighborhood in Homs, the country's third largest city.
The broadcaster says evacuations have finished for Thursday.
They are part of an agreement between rebels and the authorities to lift a government blockade on the neighborhood that has been enforced since November 2013. Residents agree to allow the government to restore its authority over the neighborhood, under the deal.
Gunmen who object to the arrangement have agreed to be evacuated.
An estimated 75,000 residents are still in the neighborhood, with dwindling supplies of food and medicine.
The group that left Al-Waer Thursday contained 103 gunmen and 158 women, children, and older men. They were transferred to the northern Homs countryside, and will be bussed to rebel-held Idlib on Saturday.
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4:40 p.m.
Syrian activists say a suicide attack in a southern village has killed several people, including local opposition officials.
The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights says the blast in the rebel-held village of Inkhil killed 11 people and wounded dozens.
The Local Coordination Committees and the Observatory say among those killed in Thursday's blast was Yacoub al-Omar, the minister of local administration.
Ahmad al-Masalmeh, an opposition activist in the southern province of Daraa, says an opposition official who held the title of Daraa governor was also killed.
They say the suicide was wearing an explosives belt which he detonated among the officials.
Such attacks are not uncommon in Syria and opposition officials and rebels have been killed in similar blasts in the past.
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3:45 p.m.
A senior official says at least six people were wounded by the rocket that struck the Turkish town of Kilis, on the border with Syria.
Gov.
Ismail Catakli told Turkey's state-run Anadolu Agency that the wounded included five children. One of the wounded was in serious condition.
Earlier, a ruling party legislator had said three Syrians were wounded.
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3:30 p.m.
A U.N.
official has denied a claim by Syrian President Bashar Assad alleging the United Nations ruled out an airstrike as responsible for an attack on an aid convoy near Aleppo.
Ramzy Ramzy, the top deputy to U.N. envoy Staffan de Mistura, said: "We did not say that."
In an Associated Press interview in Damascus published Thursday and conducted a day earlier, Assad said, "even the United Nations said that there were no airstrikes against that convoy."
Ramzy told reporters in Geneva that the U.N.
was seeking an "independent investigation" into Monday's attack on a Syrian Arab Red Crescent convoy that killed 20 civilians.
The United States said it believes it was carried out by a Russian-piloted aircraft.
Russia has denied that its aircraft or Syrian warplanes struck the convoy.
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3:20 p.m.
Syrian President Bashar Assad says U.S.
airstrikes on Syrian troops in the country's east were "definitely intentional," lasting for an hour, and blamed the U.S. for the collapse of a cease-fire deal brokered with Russia.
In an interview with The Associated Press, Assad said the war, now in its sixth year, is likely to "drag on" because of what he said was continued external support for his opponents.
Assad, in the interview conducted Wednesday, said the U.S.
"doesn't have the will" to join Russia in fighting Islamic militants in Syria.
The Syrian president rejected accusations that Syrian or Russian planes struck an aid convoy in Aleppo and denied that his troops were preventing food from entering the rebel-held part of the city
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3:15 p.m.
An official says a rocket fired from Syria has struck the Turkish border town of Kilis, wounding at least three people.
The private Dogan news agency says the rocket, believed to have been fired by Islamic State group militants, landed near a market place in Kilis on Thursday.
Resit Polat, a ruling Justice and Development Party legislator for Kilis, says the rocket wounded a Syrian child and two Syrian women.
Rockets fired into Kilis have killed at least 21 residents and wounded scores of others since January.
The Turkish military routinely responds to the rockets with artillery fire.
Last month, Turkey sent troops and tanks into northern Syria to clear a border region of IS militants and to curtail the advance of Syrian Kurdish
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12:55 p.m.
Buses began evacuating gunmen, wounded residents, and military defectors from the last rebel-held neighborhood in Homs, Syria, as part of an agreement between the government and local rebels to dismantle a blockade that has restricted food and medical supplies to the neighborhood since 2013, an activist group and a regional official said.
Homs governor Talal Barazi said 150 gunmen, some accompanied by their families, are expected to leave the al-Waer neighborhood as part of the settlement.
The first buses carrying the evacuees moved midday, transferring them to a rebel-held area in the northern Homs countryside.
Homs is Syria's third largest city.
The U.N.
is not taking part in the evacuation, Barazi says, saying it's position was "unconstructive and surprising." The U.N. was criticized for facilitating a similar evacuation from Homs' Old City in 2014. The opposition and other observers said the deal was tantamount to forced displacement.
The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitoring group says it expects 350 residents to evacuate Thursday.
As part of the agreement, the government is expected to loosen its blockade on the neighborhood, offer an amnesty for residents who rebelled, and ultimately reassume control of the area.
Local media activist Beibars al-Talawi told the AP by phone that the evacuees, including those leaving for medical treatment, would not be allowed to return.
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12:05 p.m.
A senior Russian diplomat says Moscow views a cease-fire in Syria as the best option possible.
Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov says Thursday, according to Russian news agencies, that Moscow sees no alternative to the U.S.-Russia-brokered cease-fire in Syria.
The truce declared Sept. 12 has been on the verge of collapse amid fighting around Aleppo and an attack on a humanitarian convoy.
Ryabkov said the deal was the best possible option amid sharp disagreements over Syria, adding that Russian and U.S.
diplomats need to "calmly sit down and think what needs to be done to keep the agreement afloat."
He added that the rebels have sabotaged the agreement and noted that Washington has failed to meet its pledge to encourage moderate rebels to disengage themselves from terrorist groups.
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10 a.m.
The United States and Russia are taking their differences over the conflict in Syria to new heights, after trading ferocious allegations of duplicity and malfeasance at the United Nations Security Council in New York.
After a fractious meeting of the council on Wednesday, Secretary of State John Kerry and Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov were set to duel again over Syria at a gathering of the roughly 20 nations that have an interest in Syria.
Thursday's meeting of the International Syria Support Group comes after the two men blamed each other for spoiling the country's cease-fire that they had agreed to earlier this month.
Each has blamed the other for violations.
Kerry called for all warplanes to halt flights over aid routes, while Lavrov suggested a possible three-day pause in fighting to get the truce back on track.
U.S.
Secretary of State John Kerry speaks during a Security Council meeting, Wednesday, Sept. 21, 2016, at U.N. headquarters. (AP Photo/Julie Jacobson)
Members of the Security Council meet to address the situation in Syria, Wednesday, Sept.
21, 2016, at U.N. headquarters. (AP Photo/Julie Jacobson)
United Nations envoy to Syria, Staffan de Mistura, listens during a Security Council meeting, Wednesday, Sept.
21, 2016, at U.N. headquarters. (AP Photo/Julie Jacobson)
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Post by Randy on Sept 28, 2022 10:37:52 GMT 12
YANGON, Aug 26 (Reuters) - Two Reuters journalists, Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo, have been detained in Myanmar since Dec.
12, 2017. At the time of their arrests, they had been working on an investigation into the killing of 10 Rohingya Muslim men and boys in a village in Rakhine state. After eight months of hearings, a court is set to decide on Monday whether or not to convict the reporters under the Official Secrets Act, which carries a maximum penalty of 14 years in prison.
The following are key events in the case:
Dec.
12-13, 2017 Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo are arrested in Yangon after being invited to meet police at a restaurant. The government says they face charges under the Official Secrets Act. The two reporters are held incommunicado at a secret interrogation camp for the next two weeks.
Dec. 18, 2017 Myanmar's military says it has discovered a mass grave in the village of Inn Din, in western Rakhine state.
Dec. 27, 2017 The reporters appear in court and are remanded to custody. Their families say the pair told them they were arrested almost immediately after being handed documents by the policemen they met for the first time the night of their arrest.
Jan. 10, 2018 Pre-trial hearings begin, with prosecutors seeking charges against the journalists under the Official Secrets Act.
On the same day, the military says its soldiers murdered 10 captured Muslims, whose bodies were those discovered by security forces in the mass grave in Rakhine, during insurgent attacks.
Feb. 1, 2018 A police witness, Major Min Thant, says under cross-examination that information in the documents the reporters were holding in their hands at the time of their arrest had already been published in newspaper reports.
The court denies a request for bail.
Feb. 6, 2018 Police witness Second Lieutenant Tin Htwe Oo, who testifies that he was part of the arrest team, says he burned the notes he made at the time, but gives no reason why.
Feb. 8, 2018 Reuters publishes the investigation that the reporters had been working on. It describes how security forces and local Rakhine Buddhists were involved in the killing of the 10 Rohingya Muslim men and boys buried in the mass grave at Inn Din.
Feb.
11, 2018 Myanmar says action will be taken against members of its security forces in connection with the killings at Inn Din, but says it is not related to the Reuters report.
Feb. 28, 2018 A civilian witness for the prosecution reads from notes on his hand when asked about the location of the journalists' arrests.
When challenged he says he wrote on his hand to jog his memory while testifying because he is forgetful.
March 7, 2018 A police officer who took part in a post-arrest search of Wa Lone's family home testifies that officers were looking for material "related to news".
March 28, 2018 Lawyers for Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo ask the court to throw out the case, saying there is insufficient evidence to support charges against the pair.
March 29, 2018 Prominent human rights lawyer Amal Clooney joins the legal team representing the two Reuters reporters.
"Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo are being prosecuted simply because they reported the news," Clooney says in a statement.
April 20, 2018 Prosecution witness Police Captain Moe Yan Naing tells the court that a police brigadier general had given orders to entrap Wa Lone by giving him "secret documents" and then arresting him.
Prosecutors later argued that Moe Yan Naing should be declared an unreliable witness, but the judge rejected the request.
April 29, 2018 Moe Yan Naing is sentenced to a year in prison for violating Myanmar's Police Disciplinary Act by talking to Wa Lone.
May 16, 2018 Police Lance Corporal Naing Lin, the officer Moe Yan Naing said was ordered to entrap Wa Lone, tells the court he met the reporters, but denies giving them documents.
June 11, 2018 A senior police officer denies during cross-examination by defence lawyers that the reporters were held at an interrogation camp, mistreated or asked if they were "spies" during questioning.
Afterwards, Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo dispute this account, saying they were handcuffed and questioned every two hours by different officers for about three days during their two-week detention period at the Aung Tha Pyay police special branch interrogation centre.
July 2, 2018 Prosecutors and defence lawyers deliver final arguments in the pre-trial phase of the case.
July 9, 2018 Yangon district judge Ye Lwin charges Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo with breaching the colonial-era Official Secrets Act.
Both journalists plead "not guilty" to the charges, telling the judge they "followed journalistic ethics".
July 16, 2018 Wa Lone gives the first detailed account to the court of the night he and Kyaw Soe Oo were arrested, saying that Police Lance Corporal Naing Lin had called him at least twice on Dec.
12, demanding a meeting at which the officer abruptly handed both reporters some papers. He said they were arrested by plainclothes officers almost immediately after Naing Lin gave him the papers, which he did not have time to look at.
July 17, 2018 In a second day of testimony, Wa Lone describes how police deprived him and Kyaw Soe Oo of sleep for about three days and placed black hoods over their heads while transporting them to the interrogation centre.
Wa Lone says the interrogation focused on their reporting of the Inn Din killings, rather than on the documents they are accused of obtaining.
July 24, 2018 Kyaw Soe Oo testifies that he was forced to kneel on the floor for hours after police found images of the men killed at Inn Din on his phone.
Aug. 4, 2018 U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo calls for the immediate release of two Reuters reporters at a meeting with Myanmar Foreign Minister Kyaw Tin on the sidelines of a regional conference in Singapore.
Aug. 6, 2018 Defence witnesses testify to the integrity of the two journalists, with former teacher Ye Naing Moe, director of Yangon Journalism School, praising both reporters as curious and excellent students who had won multiple awards for stories focusing on the underprivileged and social issues.
They were jailed "for revealing the truth", he says.
Aug. 10, 2018 Wa Lone´s wife, Pan Ei Mon, gives birth to the couple's first child, a baby girl, in a Yangon hospital. She is named Thet Htar Angel.
Aug. 20, 2018 Yangon district judge Ye Lwin announces he will deliver his verdict on Aug.
27. (Editing by Alex Richardson)
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Post by Kerry on Oct 1, 2022 23:24:03 GMT 12
Gaia Pope, 19, from Dorset, (pictured) has not been seen for almost a week but her family has told MailOnline that have not given up hope she could be found alive A 71-year-old woman and her Dunkirk movie extra grandson have been arrested on suspicion of murdering a teenager who went missing a week ago - but her family told MailOnline today they won't give up hope she is alive. Gaia Pope, 19, vanished a week ago on Tuesday, November 7, after she was spotted on CCTV sprinting along Manor Gardens in Swanage at around 4pm. Police last night arrested Rosemary Dinch, 71, who was the last person to see her alive, and her 19-year-old grandson Nathan Elsey, a close friend of Gaia and an extra in hit film Dunkirk who lives next door. The missing teenager's aunt Talia Pope, 59, has told MailOnline that despite the arrests there is still ‘no evidence' to prove she is dead and police have not found a body. She said: ‘We are just searching until we find her. The search is continuing for my niece. It's ongoing at the moment. It's inconclusive. But we are just searching until we find her. We've got a long way to go yet'. Mrs Dinch, 71, sobbed yesterday as she told how a ‘very upset' Gaia had 'pounded' on her door a week ago but had left again after they shared a hug. 'I'm pleased because I gave her a cuddle. Of course I want her found. I have no idea where she is. She just seems to have disappeared', she told BBC South. Her 19-year-old grandson Nathan Elsey is an aspiring actor and drama student who appeared as an extra alongside Harry Styles in Christopher Nolan's epic Dunkirk and said on his casting website that the 'experience gave me more determination than ever to fulfill my dream of becoming an actor'. Neighbours said they saw police leading the grandmother and her grandson away from the house yesterday evening and allegedly heard 'shouting and screaming' from Mrs Dinch's flat on the day Gaia disappeared. Officers are still guarding the property today and a team of forensics experts, including some with sniffer dogs, are inside. One policeman carried out a large brown package hidden in an evidence bag this afternoon. Two days before her disappearance Gaia posted a message on Instagram that said she was worried about being 'shut up and put in a cell' with the hashtag #sexualassault and one follower urged her to 'run somewhere safe', MailOnline can reveal. Police will be investigating the possibility she is hiding and Dorset Police's Det Supt Int Paul Kessler said today the force 'remains hopeful' she is still alive and 'somewhere in the Swanage area' although he also admitted she 'may have come to harm'. Nathan Elsey (pictured) is an aspiring actor who appeared as an extra alongside Harry Styles in Christopher Nolan's epic Dunkirk and is a close friend of Gaia Mrs Dinch, 71, (pictured outside her house yesterday) was held hours after she was interviewed on local TV where she admitted to being the last person to see Gaia and said they shared a cuddle and she left. The grandmother was bailed today Gaia (left with Russell Brand and right on social media) was epileptic and also badly affected by a traumatic incident two years ago, her family has said A large team of forensics officers, including some with sniffer dogs, are inside the sealed off block of flats where the two suspects lived Two days before her disappearance she posted a desperate message on Instagram suggesting she feared for her safety and used the hashtag #sexualassault Natasha Pope, the mother of missing teenager Gaia Pope, (pictured with Jeremy Corbyn) is an actress who appeared in ITV's police dramas The Bill and Inspector Morse RELATED ARTICLES Previous 1 2 Next Heartbroken family of 'gentle and loving' university payroll... Jealous boyfriend, 49, ¿ruthlessly killed the mother of his... Deliveroo driver, 21, on his way home is stabbed in the... Serial killer Rose West's nephew is jailed for 18 years for... Share this article Share thiel.edu ezp-prod1.hul.harvard.edu/login?url=https://asiaporntube.pro |
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