Reports from a rebel-held portion of the northern Syrian city of Aleppo have nine people killed, including two women and five children, when a Syrian airstrike struck a local school.
Rebel mouthpiece the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights released a video of the aftermath of the strike, saying that the death toll is likely to rise as rescue operations continue.
Syrian planes launched several strikes against the district, as the ongoing battle over Aleppo grows. The Observatory said 15 others were killed in an airstrike that hit a market in the rebel territory, while 17 were killed in rebel shelling.
The Syrian military denied the reports of any civilian deaths in strikes on the neighborhood, though such incidents are not uncommon, particularly in Aleppo where the fighting centers on densely populated regions.
Well, another report passed out to the compliant (US) press from the "Rebel mouthpiece the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights." I'm shocked that they would report civilian deaths at the hands of the Syrian government…shocked. Too bad there wasn't corroborating reporting and evidence from a non-invested news source. Guess we'll just have to take their word it went down as reported, eh?
Battlefield reporting was pretty much responsible for the ending of the Viet Nam police action. Perhaps that's why they either embed reporters with combat units (who are then heavily constrained (censored) by the authorities) or put the journalists in situations where they are killed, accidentally of course. They surely don't want to curtail the wars and report what is actually happening for fear the American people might just wake up and put a stop to it.