Showing posts with label Jazeera. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Jazeera. Show all posts
Wednesday, October 24, 2018
Friday, February 23, 2018
VIDEO: Is Russia stalling a UN resolution on Eastern Ghouta?
The UNs humanitarian chief has been urging the Security Council to call for a desperately needed ceasefire
As people in Eastern Ghouta continued to die, the United Nations Security Council continued to argue.
The UN's humanitarian chief has been urging the Security Council to call for a desperately needed ceasefire to deliver food and medicine to Eastern Ghouta.
Members of the Security Council gathered to vote on the resolution, but it was clear Russia wanted amendments and would not let the resolution pass in its current form.
Tuesday, October 24, 2017
How Iran Prevented Fall of Syria’s Assad…But Soon May Be Clashing With Him
In the summer of 2012, the leading commanders of the Free Syrian Army were confident that momentum was with them.
A bomb blast deep inside central Damascus had just taken out four senior commanders of the Syrian army, including the country’s defence minister, Dawoud Rajiha, and his deputy, Assef Shawkat, who was also President Bashar al-Assad’s brother-in-law.
The explosion, believed to have been carried out by an insider sympathetic to the opposition cause, gave hope to rebels that it was only a matter of time before Assad met a similar fate.
That hope was bolstered by successes on the battlefield, as ragtag groups of fighters coalesced into more effective armed groups, large swaths of the country started to come into rebel control.
Fateh Hassoun, who defected from the Syrian army and commanded FSA troops in Homs at the time, told Al Jazeera he felt optimistic that forces loyal to Assad would not be able to withstand the burgeoning uprising.
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