Weekly Digest – Syria – Syrian Revolution
March 2, 2020 to March 8, 2020.
By: Tania Chávez.
March 2, 2020
The head of Syria’s « White Helmets » civilian defence group, Raed al-Saleh, has been visiting European capitals ahead of a visit to Washington to push for a flight embargo as violence escalates in Syria.
« Russia’s decision to pursue a military campaign proves that the political solution they were talking about was not realistic, » Saleh said.
https://www.france24.com/en/20200302-syria-s-white-helmets-urge-no-fly-zone-to-end-civilian-exodus
UN investigators said on Monday that Russia has committed war crimes in Syria by carrying out indiscriminate airstrikes on civilian targets in 2019. The commission also observed a “crime of intentionally terrorizing the population” in order to force civilians to move, tactics that are still emerging very clearly, for example, in Idlib.
The investigators also said that Syrian rebels allied with Turkey and Al Qaeda-linked rebels had inflicted scores of civilian casualties in rocket attacks on government-held areas.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/02/world/middleeast/united-nations-syria-idlib-russia.html
March 3, 2020
@SyriaCivilDef
Barbaric shelling targeting #Idlib province and the surrounding cities from morning until now, causing a horrific massacre in the City that has kidnapped the lives of 9 people, including 5 children so far. #WhiteHelmets search and rescue operations continue.
https://pic.twitter.com/Bq1ELP8Wp7
https://twitter.com/SyriaCivilDef/status/1234817740524969985?s=20
Turkey’s effective exercise of military power in Idlib has exposed former US President Barack Obama’s timidity in not enforcing his famed “red line”, and made a mockery of Obama’s assertions and deflections.
Syria ranks as one of the UN’s most humiliating and consequential failures to halt and prevent genocide, war crimes, ethnic cleansing, and crimes against humanity.
@trtworld
The refugee crisis spurred by the Syrian war appears to present European countries with a dilemma as refugees amass at Greece’s border
https://pic.twitter.com/vxAdqAM8bw
https://twitter.com/trtworld/status/1234925490479206400?s=20
@SyriaCivilDef
We are very grateful for the meeting today between our #WhiteHelmets and the U.S delegation consisting of the U.S envoy to #Syria James Jeffrey, the United States representative to the United Nations @USAmbUN, and the American ambassador to Turkey David Satterfield.
https://pic.twitter.com/VCgpaCsaDL
https://twitter.com/SyriaCivilDef/status/1234914066650554370?s=20
Erdogan explains why Turkey launched ‘Operation Spring Shield’ in Syria and questions the silence of the International Community.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qkos8bj05Rw&feature=youtu.be
March 4, 2020
The Turkish defence ministry confirmed that « an L-39 plane belonging to the Syrian regime has been downed ». It was the third such shoot-down in three days after Turkey hit two other Syrian aircraft on Sunday.
Meanwhile, Syrian government forces overnight took over the key city of Saraqeb.
@SyriaCivilDef
13 people were killed yesterday, including 7 children, and 21 others were injured, by the Russian and regime aerial and artillery shelling, which targeted 21 cities in #Idlib and #Aleppo, with 59 airstrikes, 110 artillery shells and 29 missile launchers. Yet one more massacre.
https://pic.twitter.com/T1H8cbKJh9
https://twitter.com/SyriaCivilDef/status/1235272930063527938?s=20
Helsinki Commission Chairman Representative Alcee L. Hastings issued a statement where he condemned the unacceptable military escalation, civilian suffering, and displacement crisis witnessed in Idlib. He urged Putin and Assad to stop this assault immediately and comply with international humanitarian law requiring them to protect civilians and civilian infrastructure.
Since early December, fighting in northwestern Syria has displaced more than 948,000 people, including 569,000 children and 195,000 women, according to the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs. Turkey hosts more than 3.5 million Syrian refugees.
Reporters Without Borders condemns the use of sexist insults and rumours by Syrian government supporters, including journalists, against Merna Alhasan, a freelance journalist who is one of the first women in the region to acquire a significant media profile as a result of her coverage of the situation in the Idlib region.
“Delighting in a journalist’s supposed rape and constantly using her gender to attack her work is intolerable,” said Sabrina Bennoui, the head of RSF’s Middle East desk. “The polarization of the media in Syria is resulting in spiteful and degrading smears and, in this case, attacks on a woman’s morality.”
https://rsf.org/en/news/sexist-hate-campaign-against-idlib-based-reporter
The European Council on Refugees and Exiles is highly concerned about the political developments emanating from last week’s events in Idlib, Syria and urges calm and measured response, focused on accepting refugees and sharing responsibility across Europe.
Europe has the means for collective emergency responses that remain humane: there is no excuse for panic and panic is no excuse for repression at borders.
https://www.ecre.org/ecre-statement-on-the-situation-at-the-greek-turkish-border/
Intense missile strikes targeting the city of Jisr al-Shughour.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1utCZxhbQIg&feature=youtu.be
Turkey Is Forcing the West to Look at Idlib. It has demonstrated how easy it would have been to ground Assad’s air force—something that would have saved hundreds of thousands of lives and prevented Syria’s mass exodus had it happened earlier. This week, Ankara announced it would no longer stop refugees from crossing into Europe.
European leaders have responded with sympathy for the EU countries bordering Turkey. The refugees are a symptom of the mass crimes the West has tolerated, particularly in Syria, but it views them as a threat.
“Without question, the international community must wake up to the reality in Syria. We cannot turn a blind eye to the images we see of destruction and death from barrel bomb attacks in Idlib, and we cannot turn off the videos of children gasping for their last breath after a chemical weapon was dropped on their playground in Eastern Ghouta. We cannot continue to look the other way as Assad and his backers continue their genocide in Syria.”
https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/kinzinger-boyle-world-must-wake-genocide-syria
@SyriaCivilDef
White Helmet Ammar reflects on the one year since he nearly died in duty. 2 explosions & a hospital bed are his only memory. Now back with his family & team, he resumes his work for the SCD. His faith in the cause is stronger than ever. #Syria #WhiteHelmets #Idlib #NotATarget
https://pic.twitter.com/KZbVi22ifT
https://twitter.com/SyriaCivilDef/status/1235304642344554497?s=20
March 5, 2020
“The Syrian Arab Army, and its subsequent National Defense Force are nearly extinct, replaced with a smaller entity that can only stand on its feet with extensive support from Russia, Iran and Lebanon.”
@andrewegardner
Miserable situation at the Turkey-Greece border today, consistent reports of violence by Greek border guards.
https://pic.twitter.com/KlxmbQviZR
https://twitter.com/andrewegardner/status/1235207667104313352?s=20
@SyriaCivilDef
« The sight is horrific and harsh, the families that were killed today here were displaced and fled death. » So far, 14 people were killed by Russian airstrikes that targeted IDPs shelter near #MaaratMasrin in #Idlib at dawn today.
https://pic.twitter.com/WrlX09gajB
https://twitter.com/SyriaCivilDef/status/1235523166077927424?s=20
EU leaders have praised Greece as the « shield » of Europe against refugees, despite emerging evidence of inhumane and violent treatment of migrants by Greek security forces at the country’s border.
Ursula von der Leyen, the European Commission president, apparently unconcerned by the humanitarian violations, said: « I thank the Greek border guards and coast guards, the police, servicemen and servicewomen and Frontex for their tireless effort. »
Russian warplanes bombed a chicken farm used as a temporary accommodation center for IDPs in Maaret Masrin city, killing 14 civilians, including five women and two children and injuring 20 others, including five women and five children.
@OS26
In Idlib in the children’s ward with the youngest victims of Assad & @mod_russia bombs #Syria
https://pic.twitter.com/RQh2KjfLI6
https://twitter.com/OS26/status/1235634615890653189?s=20
“The ongoing humanitarian crisis is northwest Syria continues to deepen with devastating consequences for the four million civilians living across the region comprising the Idleb area and northern Aleppo governorate.”
Syrian doctors in rebel held province call for end of Russian airstrikes.
@MSF_Sea
Is this the meaning of solidarity according to
@EU_Commission
and
@vonderleyen
?
https://pic.twitter.com/shg7rUnGVh
https://twitter.com/MSF_Sea/status/1235522947932205056?s=20
« Laying the blame on the Turkish president is simply too easy. »
The EU can’t keep sticking its head in the sand. Thousands of migrants are gathered on the border between Turkey and Greece with no intention of turning around. Meanwhile, a real inferno is unfolding in Idlib, and some 950,000 refugees trapped in Syria at the Turkish border are in need of urgent humanitarian assistance.
https://www.politico.eu/article/blame-europe-not-just-turkey-for-migration-deal-collapse/
“A new low has been found in the means, political and rhetorical, of handling the Syrian refugee tragedy by Turkey and the European Union.”
“We stare at the images from the Greek-Turkish border, and have to remind ourselves that these people sleeping in the open air are supposed to be “survivors” of the bottomless Syrian tragedy. Yet the tragedy persists over there, in the Syrian interior (or interiors), along the Syrian-Turkish border zone, particularly in Idlib.“
https://www.aljumhuriya.net/en/content/temporary-lives-syrians
March 6, 2020
On why the US should act in Syria.
« After our troubles in Iraq and Afghanistan, many Americans just want the United States out of the Middle East. But Syria is not Iraq. With just a few hundred soldiers and some help to our allies, the lives of millions can be spared from Assad’s cruel rule. And if we allow this slaughter, there will be more slaughters to come. We have a moral imperative to try to stop that. »
March 7, 2020
A delegation from the Syrian Opposition Coalition toured the Turkish-Greek border to check on the Syrian refugees and stressed that there is an urgent need for the intervention of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees and other international organizations to provide protection for refugees.
Refugees caught between Turkey and Greece have nowhere to turn. Some people have been stripped of their belongings by Greek police and sent back over the border, many of them just in their underwear.
« This is like a chain reaction. What’s happening in Idlib is affecting Turkey. And now it’s starting to affect Europe as well. »
https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/greece-turkey-syria-refugees-1.5488845?__vfz=medium%3Dsharebar
“In a conflict that is unpredictable and always changing, there are only two rules: no matter how unbelievably bad everything is, if you wait a few months it will get worse—and the world will ignore it.”
March 8, 2020
Fares Shehabi, a member of the Assad regime Syrian parliament is accused of a sexist smear campaign against the Syrian journalist Merna Alhasan.
Merna, an Idlib native, is also stuck among the 3 million refugees – many of whom were displaced from other cities – besieged in the final rebel-held province, making her passionate and authentic. She is unique because she is the only female journalist native of Idlib to appear in front of the camera, presenting her own news reports.
@mohmad_rasheed
“What we need is for you to uproot those who terrorise us. Especially Assad, Russia & everyone who supports them in killing civilians” Idlib journalist @AlhasanMahar’s message to Europe’s governments
#SaveIdlib
#IdlibtoGymnich
@HeikoMaas @JY_LeDrian @ministerBlok @DominicRaab
https://pic.twitter.com/fLwsQINx9S
https://twitter.com/mohmad_rasheed/status/1236992828682756096?s=20
@SyriaCivilDef
Messages from our #WhiteHelmets ladies to the Syrian and world women in #InternationalWomensDay.. #Syria #WomensDay
https://pic.twitter.com/EMXIf0BM2r
https://twitter.com/SyriaCivilDef/status/1236745989635088384?s=20
@HassounMazen
On #InternationalWomensDay remember our great Syrian women who inspired us through their struggle for freedom and equality. They paid their lives and freedom to show the world how cruel and brutal Assad is.
Fadwa Soliman
May Sccaf
Tal Al-Mallohi
Razan Zaitouneh
#IWD2020
https://pic.twitter.com/sRlgyrMT6j
https://twitter.com/HassounMazen/status/1236738480862048256?s=20
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EARLIER
Weekly Digest -Syria -Syrian Revolution
February 24, 2020 to March 1, 2020.
By: Tania Chávez
February 24, 2020.
Regime Military police carried out a campaign of arrests in Aleppo city on Sunday. Four young men were arrested with the aim of getting them into military service. Many young men have been arrested recently to be put on the fronts in western and southern Aleppo, and in the countryside of Idlib, in light of the fighting there.
February 25, 2020.
@HassounMazen
#Kafranbel has been Assad’s nightmare for years. Its unique resistance & its strong struggle for freedom were iconic. This town challenged Assad & stood against his brutal death machine. It’s the face of our revolution & an idea Assad won’t be able to kill in Syrians hearts.
pic.twitter.com/qNIATTocFi
https://twitter.com/HassounMazen/status/1232395032604422144?s=20
February 25, 2020.
@mohmad_rasheed
Two civilians were killed and 12 wounded as a result of the targeting of Assad warplanes with an air strike in the city of Idlib.
The strike with four missiles at once, killing two men and wounding 12 people, with an initial result, in addition to destroying civilian homes.
https://pic.twitter.com/wvgzX36KWL
https://twitter.com/mohmad_rasheed/status/1232293686177914881?s=20
February 25, 2020.
@mohmad_rasheed
The crimes against humanity continue. One million civilians in the city of #Idlib face a systemic campaign of genocide. Scenes from #WhiteHelmets search and rescue operations after regime airstrikes on the City this morning.
@SyriaCivilDef
pic.twitter.com/yOcetUGsgW
https://twitter.com/mohmad_rasheed/status/1232420092828422144?s=20
February 25, 2020.
@ArshiMisha
Video after Regime warplanes target near the big roundabout in #Idlib City
#Syria 25/2/2020
pic.twitter.com/2ehLqwfP0L
https://twitter.com/ArshiMisha/status/1232296917159247873?s=20
February 25, 2020.
@samisami967
#IdlibUnderFire
More than 4 million civilians live in #Idlib.
They are now under the lava of #Putin’s planes and
#Bashar_al_Assad.
Do your minds imagine the scale of the expected tragedy?
25/2/2020
pic.twitter.com/FtLzwdL12F
https://twitter.com/samisami967/status/1232299697911533568?s=20
February 25, 2020.
@mohmad_rasheed
A video documenting the shelling of Assad warplanes with several air strikes, in the city of « Benish » in the northern countryside of Idlib.
#syria #Idlib
pic.twitter.com/1UhsoKzp2v
https://twitter.com/mohmad_rasheed/status/1232303307500199938?s=20
February 25, 2020.
@mohmad_rasheed
More than a million civilians in the city of Idlib and its surroundings are threatened with displacement into the unknown as a result of air strikes targeting the city since the morning, coinciding with the inability to provide shelter for any new displacement movement.
#Idlib
pic.twitter.com/6fclxRf0ld
https://twitter.com/mohmad_rasheed/status/1232290232097296386?s=20
February 25, 2020.
@SaveIdlib
@AlhasanMahar
media activist shows footages of regime shelling on one of the residential areas in Idlib.
#IdlibUnderFire #SaveIdlib
pic.twitter.com/2LAEJEjaiA
https://twitter.com/SaveIdlib/status/1232367145285230592?s=20
February 25, 2020.
@foreignoffice
Every day, the volunteer White Helmets risk their lives to save others in Syria.
Head of
@SyriaCivilDef
@RaedAlSaleh3
calls for the protection of civilians by all available means
#NotATarget
pic.twitter.com/r28hxARXj3
https://twitter.com/foreignoffice/status/1232375216329891840?s=20
February 25, 2020.
The Union of Medical Care and Relief Organizations (UOSSM) said that 10 schools in total – including two nurseries – and the Idlib Central Hospital were hit by airstrikes and ground attacks on Tuesday. At least 20 civilians were killed.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-51638381
February 25, 2020.
@MDahnon
Huge airstrikes targeted the city of Idlib.
#Idlib #Syria
pic.twitter.com/ttvM0O6OjB
https://twitter.com/MDahnon/status/1232281072408387584?s=20
February 26, 2020.
@Tania_Tania_C
The persistent Syrian pain, crying out for the loss of the family, violating the atmosphere of this dawn, shaking the world and the hearts of the oppressed, and the oppressor continues in his crime of killing.
Russian airstrikes killed 4 in Arnaba,
#Idlib
pic.twitter.com/hS58prMKpc
https://twitter.com/Tania_Tania_C/status/1232640405545549824?s=20
February 26, 2020.
“Children freezing to death in -11 degree temperatures after being bombed by their own government should never be normalized. But in fact the type of conflict we are seeing in Idlib is the new face of conflict. “
“Since 1945 an average of 5 people were displaced for every one person killed. In Syria that ratio has been 25 to 1.”
https://www.newsweek.com/syria-idlib-avatar-impunity-new-model-conflict-1489264
February 26, 2020.
@lbrahim00624
The world reads the news of the bombing of 8 schools in one day, which turned dreams into circulation news only
It also sees bags from the #UN devoted to children & school,that #Assad’s militia uses to store their ammunition.
But nothing happens to stop this & stop the killing
pic.twitter.com/WO0CWJCKoL
https://twitter.com/lbrahim00624/status/1232606876854038528?s=20
February 26, 2020.
The director of the Syrian Civil Defence, whose first responders are widely known as the White Helmets, is in the UK to ask for help from world powers, stating that the opposition in Syria needs political support, to end the tragedy and the suffering of civilians.
February 26, 2020.
@mohmad_rasheed
Nine civilian martyrs. 4 martyrs including them in the village of « Arnaba, » and 5 others in the village of « Kafr Awaid » in southern Idlib countryside, due to the shelling of Russian warplanes this morning. #syria #Idlib
pic.twitter.com/FtaVXMzrbK
https://twitter.com/mohmad_rasheed/status/1232558322940813314?s=20
February 26, 2020.
@Isabelle_kumar
Terror and desperation in Syria. Parents burn clothes to keep their children warm, nowhere to flee as bombs hit civilian areas. We speak to
@whitehelmets_sy
in Idlib who describes Idlib as poised to become the most catastrophic humanitarian crisis in history.
@euronews
Tonight
pic.twitter.com/JmNFxgj3wR
https://twitter.com/Isabelle_kumar/status/1232775228901777409?s=20
February 26, 2020.
@ArshiMisha
Massacre today in Idlib. Early morning 2 schools were targeted with cluster bombs. Thankfully the school was emptied from the students before the bombing. But sadly the staff of the school and civilians were injured badly.
@DrShajulIslam
Left-pointing magnifying glass
#Syria #Ummah
pic.twitter.com/VVF15NvROT
https://twitter.com/ArshiMisha/status/1232533149550358529?s=20
February 26, 2020.
@MGhorab3
New waves of displacement from the areas of Sahel Al-Rouj in Idlib countryside towards the camps and relatively safe areas away from military operations with increasing difficulties in providing shelter for the displaced people from different regions
#Syria #Idlib
pic.twitter.com/APyUHuE9xi
https://twitter.com/MGhorab3/status/1232656705097490438?s=20
February 26, 2020.
@SyriaCivilDef
8 schools and kindergartens were deliberately targeted today by the regime’s warplanes and rockets loaded with cluster bombs. 21 people were killed, including teachers. Are school children and teachers the threat the regime and Russia must rid #Syria of?!
pic.twitter.com/8m6jdOTGlo
https://twitter.com/SyriaCivilDef/status/1232456266015965185?s=20
February 26, 2020.
@SyriaCivilDef
96 airstrikes, 8 cluster bomb attacks, and more than 231 artillery and missiles fired by Russian and regime forces yesterday on civilian homes and vital facilities in #Idlib, our teams responded to the attacks and recovered the bodies of 26 people and rescued 95 injured.
pic.twitter.com/3XwqBDRijm
https://twitter.com/SyriaCivilDef/status/1232682244176859136?s=20
February 27, 2020.
@SyriaCivilDef
Child Rouaa is the only survivor that was rescued by our #WhiteHelmets teams following regime forces’ artillery shelling on #Idlib City dawn on this day. The regime bombing killed her parents and two siblings.
pic.twitter.com/d6zv6T2AZj
https://twitter.com/SyriaCivilDef/status/1233056810602565633?s=20
February 27, 2020.
The Syrian National Coalition on Wednesday received a delegation of the US State Department’s Syria Transition Assistance Response Team (START) and stressed the importance of activating the ‘Responsibility to Protect’ principle the UN adopted in 2005.
February 27, 2020.
Turkey has decided to no longer stop Syrian refugees from reaching Europe by land and sea, in anticipation of the imminent arrival of refugees from Syria’s Idlib where nearly a million have been displaced.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-syria-security-turkey-migrants-idUSKCN20L33V
February 27, 2020.
@TNTranslations
Update: #Russian air-strikes killed 22 civilians, including 9 children and 7 women in #Idlib 25/2/2020. In total 10 schools were deliberately targeted during school hours by the Russians and Assad regime.
Report by
@BarakatHebao
from Maarrat Misrin https://youtu.be/DaPi6dM-YWk
pic.twitter.com/ICxSbSoNNC
https://twitter.com/TNTranslations/status/1232738022879264769?s=20
February 27, 2020.
@TNTranslations
@HadiAlabdallah: Turkish-backed Revolutionary factions regain control over the strategic city of #Saraqib and surroundings after fierce battles with Russian/regime militias.
HD https://youtu.be/5ogR4ioexD4 English Subtitles
pic.twitter.com/0CgXzFeD8E
https://twitter.com/TNTranslations/status/1233003098504863746?s=20
February 27, 2020.
@SyriaCivilDef
The lives of millions are at stake. Russian and regime bombing is rapidly approaching the center of #Idlib city. A message from our White Helmet volunteer Mohammed Hassan from northern #Syria.
pic.twitter.com/3VJaPdwerb
https://twitter.com/SyriaCivilDef/status/1233089056235491329?s=20
February 27, 2020.
@TNTranslations
Small orange diamond War correspondents from all over #Syria united in the heart of liberated #Saraqib send message
HD https://youtu.be/lqlpudfVmuQ English Subtitles
#Idlib #Aleppo #Ghouta #Hama #Homs #Daraa #Damascus
@mhmdfaisel
https://twitter.com/TNTranslations/status/1233128372710117376?s=20
February 27, 2020.
@GIIMedia
#SNA (#Ahrar al-Sham Commander) Ali Jaber Pasha: »Like we liberated Saraqeb, we will liberate all cities.. » [English Translation]
pic.twitter.com/XU79CNBG8R
https://twitter.com/GIIMedia/status/1233094807804882944?s=20
February 28, 2020.
At least 33 Turkish soldiers killed in regime airstrike and the Turkish armed forces retaliated with artillery fire and air attacks aimed at Syrian government targets.
In the wake of the bombing, a senior Turkish official said Ankara would no longer stop Syrian refugees from reaching Europe by land and sea.
February 28, 2020.
Amnesty International UK:
“EU member states need to do far more to share responsibility for refugees arriving in Turkey, both through financial support and ensuring safe pathways to Europe.”
https://www.amnesty.org.uk/press-releases/eu-refugees-turkey-being-used-bargaining-chips
February 28, 2020.
Euro-Med Monitor calls on EU member states to immediately provide a safe passage for Syrian refugees attempting to reach Europe during the alarming escalations in Syria, and to ensure that refugees won’t be subject to exploitation or human rights violations in European countries between Turkey and Western Europe; such as Greece, Hungary, Bosnia and others.
February 29, 2020.
Turkey claims to have destroyed a chemical warfare facility south of Aleppo, after 33 Turkish soldiers were killed in an air strike by Russian-backed Syrian regime forces in the Idlib region on Thursday.
On Saturday, Erdogan told Putin to « get out of our way and leave us face-to-face with the regime. »
February 29, 2020.
@trtworld
TRT World’s Obaida Hitto reports from Idlib’s Belyun town where 33 Turkish soldiers were killed in a Russia-backed Syrian regime airstrike.
/pic.twitter.com/gqju1OxY0f
https://twitter.com/trtworld/status/1233786517698555905?s=20
March 1, 2020.
Turkey destroyed three air defence systems belonging to the Syrian regime. Two regime jets, Sukhoi-24, were also downed in Idlib province.
Turkish Armed Forces also bombed the regime’s Nairab military airport in Aleppo province, rendering it unusable.
March 1, 2020.
Several Turkish drones attacked three of the Assad regime’s military airports in the countryside of Aleppo:
Menegh military airport,
Nairab military airport,
Kweires military airport.
https://www.orient-news.net/en/news_show/177732/0/Turkey-targets-Assad-military-airports-in-Aleppo
March 1, 2020.
A message to the #WhiteHelmets volunteers, all rescue volunteers around the world and to our 282 fallen heroes We lost during our years of work in #Syria in #WorldCivilDefenceDay #WhiteHelmets #Syria
/pic.twitter.com/mRSU9AEfpQ
https://twitter.com/RaedAlSaleh3/status/1234204802944585728?s=20
March 1, 2020.
Today 1/3/2020 Syrians protesting in Al Omari mosque in #Daraa city in solidarity with Idlib & Al-Sanamein in Daraa province that Assad militias are storming
Same spirit as 2011! This revolution is immortal
Chants: “#Idlib we are with you till death”
pic.twitter.com/VX3p6Lunij
https://twitter.com/Linashamy/status/1234217032285065217?s=20
March 1, 2020.
The Syrian army has launched an assault operation targeting the insurgents in the northwestern neighbourhood of the town al-Sanamayn. In response, the insurgents raised an appeal for help, which has resulted in multiple security incidents across Daraa province today.
http://www.aymennjawad.org/2020/03/unrest-in-deraa-interview#.XlxniR80u2M.twitter
March 1, 2020.
@TRTWorldNow
TRT World’s Obaida Hitto reporting from Syria’s Idlib says more regime jets have been downed by Turkish forces
pic.twitter.com/0Yaf75BAiH
https://twitter.com/TRTWorldNow/status/1234113515516026881?s=20
March 1, 2020.
Video shows the shooting down of the second plane of the Assad-type Su 24 فيديو يظهر اسقاط الطائرة الثانية لقوات الأسد من نوع سيخوي24
pic.twitter.com/CzoO5mgkwe
https://twitter.com/hussinkhattab/status/1234093581834608640?s=20
March 1, 2020.
@Tania_Tania_C
Four civilians, including a child, were killed and others wounded due to an air strike by two air raids targeting their house in the village of Kafrtain, near Darat Azza in the western countryside of #Aleppo
#WhiteHelmets
#Dar_Ta_izzah
#AleppoUnderFire
#Syria
pic.twitter.com/MrAr0MNTxW
https://twitter.com/Tania_Tania_C/status/1234097938776850432?s=20
March 1, 2020.
@TNTranslations
#Syria|n Revolutionaries liberate at least 7 towns from Russian-backed sectarian militias and are now advancing towards Kafranbel, Has, Ma’arat al-Numan, and Maarat Hurma
Film projector
@mhmdfaisel
from Orient News reports from inside liberated Kafr Aweid
Subtitles https://youtu.be/-32UHY4Vjns
pic.twitter.com/FqaDeubryf
https://twitter.com/TNTranslations/status/1234107186399236097?s=20
March 1, 2020.
More than 950,000 Syrians have been forced from their homes since December, the vast majority of them – at least 81 percent – being women and children.
Since December, more than 200 refugee camps have been set up in Idlib, but the camps lack basic sanitation and are far over their capacity, forcing tens of thousands to sleep outside in sub-zero temperatures, resulting in a number of children freezing to death.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2020/03/task-aid-groups-idlib-struggle-syrians-200301053201111.html
March 1, 2020.
@M_Alneser
Not only clashes against #Assad started today in #Daraa province but demonstrations in solidarity with #Idlib.
Busra al-Sham
pic.twitter.com/yltrsLroib
https://twitter.com/M_Alneser/status/1234125754239266818?s=20
March 1, 2020.
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« death & not for humiliation »
« #Syria is free, #Iran should out »
« the volk demand execution of #Assad »
Sanamin/ #Daraa
https://twitter.com/M_Alneser/status/1234126973691187201?s=20
March 1, 2020.
@M_Alneser
This demonstration from the old city of Daraa the iconic Omari mosque.
All demonstrations in this thread are in the #Assad’s held areas in solidarity with #Idlib.
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March 2, 2020.
The Assad base is bombed by Turkish Drones. The Russians are fleeing. #idlib #Halep #Turkey #Russianarmy #TurkishArmy #Anka #Drone #war
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https://twitter.com/jinvirjin/status/1234282467651182592?s=20