The Russian pilot who was shot down in Syria then blew himself up with a grenade. That is what the Russian Ministry of Defense says, according to news agency TASS, that the major was surrounded by insurgents after his landing.
A Russian fighter plane (SU-25) was shot from the air on Saturday afternoon over the northern Syrian Idlib region. The pilot would have left the plane just before the crash with his ejector seat.
Jet fighters attacked a convoy of refugees in the Syrian province of Idlib, which killed at least seven civilians. The victims are mainly elderly and children, according to aid workers.
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Researchers have for the first time established a link between the great attack with the poison gas sarin in Ghouta and the chemical weapons stock of Syria. During the attack in Ghouta on the outskirts of Damascus, hundreds of people died in 2013.
France wants an emergency session of the United Nations Security Council on the situation in Syria. ' Ghouta, Idlib, Afrin- France asks for an emergency meeting of the Security Council ', writes French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian on Twitter.
The Syrian army has made a strategically important conquest in the northwest of the country. Together with allies, it managed to recapture the air base in the province of Idlib on the rebels.
Kurdish militias in northwestern Syria will be destroyed by Turkish military intervention in the area. With this, Turkish president Erdogan threatened Saturday.
Turkish President Erdogan called his Russian counterpart Putin and said that the Syrian government should stop its attacks in Idlib in the northwest and east of Damascus. Erdogan said that the process by which Russia, Iran and Turkey try to bring peace to Syria together is at risk if these attacks continue.
At least 23 people were killed by an explosion in the Syrian city Idlib. Other victims are still under the rubble, reports the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. The organization based in the UK bases itself on local sources.
At least nineteen civilians were killed and 25 others were injured by an air attack of Syrian and Russian aircraft on the village of But Shureen.
Turkish soldiers set up observation posts in the Syrian province of Idlib. This happens according to the armed forces because of the agreements made with Russia and Iran, among other things, about setting up the so-called escalation zones.
Turkish military vehicles entered the Syrian province of Idlib on Sunday. That reported sources in the border area. Turkish vehicles were escorted by warriors of jihadist Tahrir al-Sham when they entered the country at the Atmeh transition.
The International Red Cross is very concerned about reports of many hundreds of civilians and devastated hospitals and schools in Syria in recent weeks. According to the organization, violence is currently the strongest since the fall of East Aleppo in December last year.
Russian strategic bombers fired crucifixes on targets of terrorist group Islamic State (IS) in Syria on Tuesday. The attacks were conducted by the Russian Ministry of Defense in the provinces of Deir al-Zor and Idlib.
Russia, Iran and Turkey have made agreements on a fourth so-called de-escalation zone in Syria. Observers from the three countries, according to Ankara, make sure that government forces and armed opposition leave each other in the area in the Idlib region.
The government forces of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad are making great progress in the fight against Islamic state and will soon reach the city of Deir al-Zor. The governor of the same-named province, Mohammed Ibrahim Samra, expects the Syrian army within 48 hours in the city.
The latest civilizations in Syria of the Islamic State (IS) terrorist group were likely to fall in late October. That said Staffan de Mistura, the UN Envoy for Syria, against the BBC. Then, according to De Mistura, preparations can be made for 'credible' elections.
The repatriation of Syrian refugees from the border region in Lebanon has begun on Wednesday. Buses picked up the first groups of displaced persons at the camps at the Syrian border in the Jroud Arsal region to bring them to the province of Idlib.
More than two thousand rebels and their families left Qaboun, a suburb of the Syrian capital, Damascus on Sunday. That has reported Syrian state media. The exodus follows two months of air attacks and artillery shoots.
Hundreds of Syrian rebels began Monday leaving Barzeh district in the capital Damascus. The evacuation is part of agreements between the rebels and the government of President Assad, reports the Syrian state television.
The Russian Ministry of Defense said to the media on Friday that at midnight the safe areas in Syria were a fact. The largest area is the Idlib province, with the neighboring Latakia, Aleppo and Hama districts. There are more than a million people living in total. According to state secretary Alexander Fomin, the air force has not been flying since 1 May.
If Assad has already taken revenge, it was not very impressive. On Thursday evening, Israel crossed the Golan Hoogvlakte, an object of the sky with a Patriot rocket. The army did not want to clarify what was shot out of the air, but according to media it was an unmanned drone.
The French intelligence services will prove within a few days that the regime of Syrian President Bashar Assad has used chemical weapons in an air attack on Idlib. That said the French Foreign Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault on Wednesday.
According to Syrian President Assad, the poison gas attack in Idlib which his government would be responsible '100 percent fabricated.'
Experts of OPCW (Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons) go to Turkey to gather material for their research on poison gas in northern Syria. This announced the OPCW Thursday.
Russia has for the eighth time used its veto to block a resolution of the UN Security Council against Syria and President Bashar al-Assad. Wednesday were a strong condemnation of the deadly poison gas attack in Idlib province and pressure on the Syrian government to allow international experts for examination.
last week used the nerve gas sarin the Syrian air strike in the Idlib province. According to the Turkish Minister of Health Recep Akda is now confirmed after testing on some of the victims.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergej Lavrov on Saturday with his American colleague Rex Tillerson called on the state Syria. The US Friday basis of the Syrian air force bombed the city of Homs, because that aircraft would have come up with chemical weapons.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan celebrated the missile attack on the United States on Syria Friday as a positive development. But at the same time he said it was not enough and that 'serious steps' are needed to protect the Syrian people.
