The Russian and Syrian air force have suspended air strikes in Aleppo since Tuesday 08.00. Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu said that the measure has been decided in relation to the proclaimed Thursday 'humanitarian pause'.
The Syrian government has partially approved a plan for emergency aid from the United Nations, but refuses to allow aid in rebel-occupied part of Aleppo. That on Thursday let the United Nations know.
Certainly 145 people have died in two days by air attacks carried out in eastern Aleppo. This part of the Syrian city is still in the hands of the rebels. So long as that is the case, the air force President Assad bombarded with support from the Russians goals.
Heavy bombing neighborhoods of Aleppo made are in the hands of rebels have also Wednesday many victims and caused widespread damage. At least 25 people came by air strikes killed. In the district Fardous market was hit. There were following the rescue fifteen dead.
The Russian parliament on Friday ratified a treaty providing for the deployment indefinitely Russian warplanes, helicopters and soldiers on a foothold in Syria. The agreement brings peace to Syria closer, Sergei Sjelesnjak said the Kremlin United Russia party at the news agency Tass. All 446 present deputies in the State Duma voted in favor.
The Syrian army has made significant gains Thursday in the hard-fought city of Aleppo. It captured a significant part of the district of Bustan al-Basha near downtown, a place that seemed to have firmly in the hands of the rebels.
Syria reduces the number of air strikes and shelling of the hard-fought city of Aleppo. That decision was taken by the high command of the Syrian army with the aim of improving the humanitarian situation in the battered city.
The Russian embassy in Damascus has been under fire from areas controlled by jihadists. This let the Russian Foreign Ministry announced on Tuesday.
The US decision to break off the dialogue with Russia on Syria, damages the fight against jihadists in that country and demonstrates that the US government does not intend or is unable to meet its obligations in that fight. This said a spokesman for the Russian Foreign Ministry Tuesday.
Russia has expanded its fleet of bombers of the type Su-24 and Su-34 in Syria. Are also Su-25 combat aircraft specifically for attacks on ground targets ready to go to Syria.
As a result of the Russian air strikes in Syria, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights nearly 10,000 people died.
Charity SOS Children's Villages has 156 children and 46 employees evacuated from a reception center in the Syrian capital Damascus after Tuesday there were two mortar shells landed. Everybody was unhurt, but the organization is deeply saddened ' '' about the attack on the children and called to end all warring parties on Wednesday the violence.
The Syrian government is willing to forming a government of national unity. This said the foreign minister, Walid al-Muallem Monday against the Lebanese news channel Al-Deen Maya. According to al-Muallem has \'political roadmap\' to the government in Damascus who can help put an end to the five-year protracted bloody civil war.
For the first time in five months, there are supplies delivered in four besieged Syrian cities. That left the Red Cross know Monday.
More than 180 people in the Syrian city of Aleppo slain since the end of the truce between rebels and government forces. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported that Saturday.
The United Nations make preparations to resume aid to Syria. Aid supplies were halted after the bloody attack Monday on a convoy near Aleppo. ' The preparations for these convoys resumed and we are ready to bring relief as soon as possible to beleaguered and difficult areas \', told the UN Department of Humanitarian Affairs.
The Syrian army pulls its units and vehicles in stages back of the notorious Castello Street, bloody line between rebels and the army in the hotly contested city of Aleppo.
"Despite the temporary truce in Syria show the first aid convoys for hundreds of thousands of needy citizens in besieged areas in coming. On the Turkish border is twenty trucks ready to leave for Aleppo, but the road to it is still not released because the warring parties have not yet begun to withdraw."
"Two aid convoys be stopped since Wednesday morning in a strip of no man's land in Syria. The trucks were en route from Turkey to the Syrian city of Aleppo. They can not continue. Both Damascus and the rebel movement will decide who brings what help to the city."
"A few hours before the start of an agreed ceasefire in Syria, President Bashar al-Assad Monday confirmed his claims to supremacy in the country."
"Syrian President Bashar al-Assad on Monday appeared in public on the occasion of the Islamic Feast of Sacrifice, Eid al-Adha. Assad took part in a prayer service at a mosque in battered daraya, a southwestern suburb of Damascus."
"The Syrian government promised to cooperate with the truce by Russia and the United States negotiated. Writes the Syrian state news agency SANA."
"The main Syrian opposition on Saturday cautiously welcomed the planned Russian-US cooperation in Syria. According to spokeswoman Bassma Kodmani of the High Negotiation (HNC) the consent of the population may be beneficial, " as it is applied. ' This depends on Russia, since the influence of Moscow " the only way to get to the compliance regime, '' said Kodmani."
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas worked in the eighties as a KGB agent. This is evident from the documents of the intelligence service of the Soviet Union, reports the Israeli broadcaster Channel 1.
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas was in the 80s a spy for the KGB.
Helicopters from the Syrian government would Tuesday drums of chlorine gas have dropped on the Al-Sukkari in Aleppo. During the attack were about eighty people injured, including fifty children. President Bashar al-Assad and his entourage have not yet responded.
Activists and doctors in Aleppo rebel territory, the Syrian government Tuesday again accused the deployment of chlorine in the heavily besieged city. About eighty people were treated for breathing problems after helicopters had dropped barrel bombs in the Al-Sukari. In the streets was a chlorine smell.
In four Syrian towns (partly) in the hands of government troops have been heavy explosions Monday, Syrian state media reports. The explosions were reported in the town of Tartus on the coast, the central city of Homs, a suburb of the capital Damascus and the northeastern city of Hasaka.
The Syrian army has launched an offensive to retake areas in the Hama district on rebels.
The Turkish army and militias of the Kurdish YPG in Syria have reached a cease-fire. Which reported the Kurdish news agency Firat Thursday based on 'military sources in the region.'
