After going into effect Monday and providing one of the calmest five-day spans of the entire Syria Civil War, the US-Russia brokered ceasefire now appears to be on the brink of collapse, following US airstrikes on Saturday and subsequent Syrian airstrikes against rebels in the far south of the country.
While the US and Russia had been trading charges of “violations” all week, despite the calm, the Saturday US airstrikes in Deir Ezzor were the largest incident by far, with the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reporting that at least 83 Syrian troops were killed, and 120 others wounded.
Syrian military officials accused the US of launching the attacks to “benefit ISIS,” who overran the bombed army base not long thereafter. Russia called an emergency meeting of the UN Security Council, a meeting which itself rapidly turned into a fiasco as US officials loudly condemned Russia for calling it.
On Sunday, Syrian forces bombed rebel sites in the southern Daraa Province, killing at least nine civilians according to the Observatory, who noted it was the single deadliest incident against civilian targets since the ceasefire began. The southern rebels are largely US-backed, and it was probably not a coincidence that they were targeted.
Still, Russia warns that the city of Aleppo is the most dangerous site, with the Nusra Front shelling Syrian military targets in the area. Nusra is not a party to the ceasefire, but one of the terms required the Syrian government not to engage them without US permission.
Russian and US military officials are scheduled to meet Monday on possible coordinated attacks against Nusra, but tensions are on the rise, and it’s increasingly doubtful that’s going to produce any sort of accord.
This is just another pathetic act from the murdering
corrupt USG regime. Death, violence, and destruction
means nothing to these vile bastards who are in the
process of running the entire planet into the ground.
This is a just another attempt for Russia to try to exert influence in the region for a murderous propped up butcher of a dictator the people clearly want overthrown.Shame on Russia stop the killing of innocent civilians in your county stop the bombings of hospitals stop gassing the population…Peace in the middle East….
The US of course is the nation that has been proudly and aggressively at war in the middle east for the last 15 years. And promises more of the same, to the point of it being Orwell’s Endless War.
Eagle I know it is impossible to admit , but if you follow these conflicts a little closer you will find the NAZIs , NATO and the United States are not always as pure and clean as they should be . As a matter of fact they usually are the aggressor and supporting the most vicious unhuman dis honest attacks possible . Of course you never get that from them or the mainstream western media . It truly is sad to find out we are the criminals .
We’re the criminals didn’t Syrian and Russian warplanes just bomb a convoy full of food and life saving supplies. I don’t need to read an alternative news source I mean what do you expect from the World to believe the nonsense this website peddles from a bunch of anti Americans or my lying eyes…pathetic
One country bombs the sovereign military forces inside another country, and the bombing country has no permission from the government of the country to even fly there. Sounds like precisely the sort of situation where Roosevelt and the leaders of his time thought that the UNSC should be meeting to discuss this.
Yet, the representative of the bombing country refuses to discuss the incident in any reasonable terms, instead walks out of the meeting and launches a tirade saying that calling such a meeting could only be a stunt.
That’s not a fiasco ….. that’s a sign that its time to put the doomsday clock straight up to midnight and start ringing the alarm bells. That’s the sort of thing that would be described in a history book as what happens when a war starts, except in this case it will be a nuclear war and there will be no history books.
We must defeat Hillary and the neocons. It would be better if we could elect one of the ‘third’ party candidates, but even Trump is better than nuclear war.