Spending some two years under siege by al-Qaeda and its allied forces in Idlib Province, Shi’ite civilians from the towns of Foua and Kfraya began a mass evacuation as part of the “town swap” deal, but didn’t get far outside of Idlib before they were attacked in a massive car bombing which killed at least 126 people, including 68 children.
The convoy of buses were heading into government territory, but were targeted with the huge explosion in a rebel-controlled area outside of Aleppo. The attack reportedly killed not only a large number of civilians in the convoy, but between 20 and 30 rebels who were present to “guard” the convoy.
The whole population transfer is apparently in limbo after the blast, with rebels accusing the government of “violating” the deal by not sending enough security to escort the rebel fighters and their families out of the towns near Lebanon which are being evacuated on the other side of the deal. As a result, the rebels had stopped the Shi’ite convoy at the time of the attack.
This means that in the wake of the attack, and its huge casualties, thousands of Shi’ites are basically stranded in rebel-held territory not particularly far from the towns they were forced to abandon, and while the Red Crescent is providing food while they wait, many say they’ve been gone for some 30 hours, and have no access to toilets.
Despite this being a bombing attack on pro-government Shi’ites in a rebel-held area, the rebels were quick to blame the Syrian military for the attacks, calling for international intervention against them .
still there?
Lindsey’s heroes hard at work.
You forgot McPain.
Chalk this up to the US too. It all stems back to their first Iraq war which was just as phony as the second one.
The Canadians did it and framed the US.
Canadians took part in the first one and I will always condemn my government for that.
Where is the WORLD in HORROR like the Fake Gas Attack that Assad DID NOT COMMIT. Where is the world’s horror or even reaction to the
THREE HUNDRED CILIVIANS MURDERED by our brave heroes safely 20,000 in the feet sky dropping explosives on everything except ISIS.
Idlib may be the Syrian government’s next recaptured governate; they don’t appear as concerned with a ‘race to Raqqa’.
Not a bad strategy, but obviously the DAESH are going to scrape past the bottom of the barrel of dirty fighting.
Cutting the Daesh supply lines from Turkey/NATO would be useful though.
Refer to the Wiki Syrian Civil War Map; the DAESH hold most of Idlib and its a huge amount of territory to take then hold.
The Turkey/NATO supply lines are secured by their respective DAESH in north Syria. No chance of cutting them off, however, the Islamic State is cut off.
New reports would have the Syrian-Russian alliance sweeping the field, but that’s far from the case.
Princess Ivanka seen the pictures yet?.
Run to daddy, Ivanka.
Lots of hankies.
Why not do something about the terrorists who have just murdered these poor souls.
Armed, trained and financed by your country, daddy’s neo con friends and now daddy himself, Ivanka.
What a repulsive little hypocrites this woman, the duplicitious Trump and the neo cons are.
And they really are ultimately responsible for the deaths of these people fleeing islamic terror sponsored by the ‘exceptionally’ warmongering US of A.
You got it. I am starting to think of Ivanka as Salome, Trump as Herod, and Syria as John the Baptist.
I like that.
Except for the fact Syria is one head they ain’t getting.
They wouldn’t have got a few others if the Russians hadn’t been too weak to do anything at the time.
Yugoslavia, Iraq, Libya.
But now we have a new Russia with the greatest current statesman on the planet – like him or loathe him – and he too has a red line – and its Syria not being decapitated by US/NATO sponsored islamic terrorists.
Maybe there are 59 cruise missiles headed for Saudi Arabia??
I guess this is good news. Score 100 civilians for American sponsored terrorists. Our tax dollars at work.
Was talking to a friend just yesterday about how ignorant as an American i was when 911 went off. .. one night at a neighborhood bonfire a Palestinian ” wy-el (?) Shalash” was present and so i just asked him, why do they hate us so much?
An he told me.. i never thought of that period, but was imediately enlightened. To the point of at least trying to open my eyes but im afraid These 16 yrs since the night i pondered, and hold on to your bitchers here, the concept of what the Israelis are doing to the Palestinians being just as genocidal and criminal as that mess hitler wanted to be proud of. Now i point at our relationship, alliance w Israel, as but an example of the larger picture of what i guess is called third world country’s and their extreme poverty driven -david against Goliath ,desire for at least villification of grievance ,and perhaps the simple gesture of puting your arm (sybolically ). around their shoulder and telling them its gonna be ok , your big bro wont let them treat you like that no more is too simplistic but it seems to me when people feel like no one is one their side and they have no recourse but to make someone pay attention, from columnbine to syrias displaced refugee populace , then we are just continuing to make this one world democracy we seem bent on in theory anyhow exclusive of weakth and power not inclusive in the brotherhood of man where( though you may not agree that its something you want to decieve your thinking with) Christian teachings Golden Rule, do unto others as youd have them you. . Is just a better way to see others in their efforts to put a chicken in the pot. The conversation yesterday involved the ideal of considering others first and i know its all been said before… are we just incapable of selflessness where its ok as long as it isn’t happening to me. ..?
That may be the most convoluted ‘blame Assad’ theory that I’ve heard yet. The attack occurred in ‘rebel controlled’ territory. Yet, its the Assad’s government fault because the government didn’t have enough troops in this rebel controlled area to protect the convoy. Then later it claims that the government attacked the convoy directly while it was in rebel controlled territory.
Really?
Of course, since the base sources are the known fake news outfits of CBS, Sky and Reuters, I guess that’s an example of the old computer theory of ‘garbage in, garbage out.’