tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5409482909880290151.post4836805015089420642..comments2024-03-29T13:28:01.770+02:00Comments on EL KaOs UT News: Syria moves toward maritime trade after losing most border crossings xronoshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13107445158803745642noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5409482909880290151.post-40813454384616508282015-05-29T11:33:26.480+03:002015-05-29T11:33:26.480+03:00Syrian Army Units Evacuate Positions in Ariha, Dep...Syrian Army Units Evacuate Positions in Ariha, Deploy in Defensive Lines ...<br /><br />Syrian Army units evacuated their positions in Ariha city in the countryside of Idleb province and withdrew to defensive lines on the outskirts of the city after fierce battles with large numbers of Al-Nusra front terrorists.<br /><br />The units, earlier, destroyed a number of mortar-launchers for the terrorists during the confrontations in Ariha, according to SANA.<br /><br />The army’s air force destroyed dens for terrorists and a number of their vehicles, killed several terrorists near Nahlya, Mseibin and Kfar Lata in Idleb countryside.<br />http://www.almanar.com.lb/english/adetails.php?eid=212672&cid=23&fromval=1<br />29/5/15Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5409482909880290151.post-61683380108690976932015-05-29T11:30:42.893+03:002015-05-29T11:30:42.893+03:00UN aid chief: Syria descending into deeper depths ...UN aid chief: Syria descending into deeper depths of despair....<br /><br /> Outgoing UN aid chief Valerie Amos painted a brutal portrait of Syria's civil war on Thursday in her final briefing to the Security Council.<br /><br />"For more than four years, we have watched Syria descend into deeper depths of despair, surpassing what even the most pessimistic observers thought possible," she said. "The situation throughout the country is, by any measure, extremely grave and deteriorating by the day."<br /><br />The UN says more than 220,000 people have been killed in Syria since the onset of the violence in March 2011, but the number is likely much higher.<br /><br />Some 12.2 million people need humanitarian assistance throughout the country, as well as more than 4.8 million trapped in hard-to-reach areas, according to the UN.<br /><br />"In the past weeks, we have seen more and more heinous acts. Innocent men, women and children killed, maimed, displaced, and subjected to a savagery that no human should have to endure," Amos said.<br /><br />She particularly cited an aerial bombing of a market in Darkoush in rural Idlib in northeastern Syria at the end of April, in which up to 50 people were killed and over 100 civilians wounded............http://www.aa.com.tr/en/news/518633--un-aid-chief-syria-descending-into-deeper-depths-of-despair<br />29/5/15Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5409482909880290151.post-68162875790396857282015-05-29T07:20:53.718+03:002015-05-29T07:20:53.718+03:00The European Union is extending its sanctions, inc...The European Union is extending its sanctions, including travel bans and asset freezes, against the regime of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad for another year as the Syrian civil war rages on...<br /><br />One more person has been added to the sanctions list on which "over 200 persons and 70 entities are targeted by EU sanctions over the violent repression against the civilian population in Syria," the Council of the European Union said in a statement on Thursday.<br /><br />"This person is a high-ranking military official deemed responsible for repression and violence against the civilian population in Damascus and Damascus countryside," the council said, adding that information about this person would be available in the EU Official Journal on Friday.<br /><br />More than 200,000 people have been killed in Syria as the war enters its fifth year.<br /><br />The council said in December 2014 that the EU would continue imposing and enforcing sanctions against the Syrian regime and its closest partners as long as repression in the war-torn country would continue.<br /><br />"For the EU, a lasting solution to the conflict can only come through a Syrian-led political process that leads to a transition," the council also said in the statement.<br />aa.com.tr<br />28/5/15Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com