When researching the current events I wanted to focus them mostly on air strikes. When you hear news talking about the Middle East most of it is about how we are going to use air strikes to defeat ISIS instead of ground troops. I feel as if though I did not understand how often these air strikes happen and how much… Read more »
(The Guardian) Isis’s minister of information, Wa’il Adil Hasan Salman al-Fayad, killed in Raqqa by US-led coalition airstrike An Islamic State leader who oversaw the militant group’s propaganda has been killed in Syria in an airstrike carried out by the US-led coalition on 7 September, the Pentagon has said. A statement from Pentagon spokesman Peter Cook said that the airstrike… Read more »
(The Guardian) At 6am on Saturday 13 August, Ahmad Arfaj, a primary school teacher in Yemen’s Saada governorate, returned home from the local mosque after performing the dawn salah, the first of his five daily prayers. A friend accompanied him to his doorstep. “I went in to see and greet my family and I brought coffee and we preferred to… Read more »
(BBC News) Russia’s military says rebel groups have increased attacks in Syria despite a ceasefire and has urged the US to act or be responsible for its collapse. Russian generals said attacks by rebels, some US-backed, had increased sharply over the past 24 hours. Gen Viktor Poznikhir said the rebel groups had “not met a single obligation” of the truce.
(The Telegraph) The United Nations Security Council has convened at the behest of the Russians after dozens of Syrian soldiers were accidentally killed in a US coalition bombing raid. It met within hours of the Obama administration expressing its regret at the strikes on Jabal Therdeh, southwest of the Deir Ezzor airport in eastern Syria. According to Russian estimates 62… Read more »