[Northern Monkey]

https://www.google.co.uk/amp/m.huffp...?client=safari

Labour MPs have united in a chorus of condemnation of the left-wing Morning Star newspaper after it labelled the imminent fall of Aleppo, Syria’s largest city, a “liberation”.

Desperate messages were emerging from the city as President Bashar al-Assad’s regime wrested back control of more neighbourhoods from rebel forces, with a Syrian general claiming the resistance was in the “final stages”.


The sentiment prompted an instant backlash from Labour MPs led by John Woodcock, one of the fiercest critics of British government inaction over aid to the region.
He made reference to the newspaper’s links to the pro-Jeremy Corbyn campaign group Momentum and the pro-Russia views expressed by Corbyn’s director of communications, Seumas Milne.

[Northern Monkey]

http://www.newstatesman.com/politics...ning-star-says

[Toy Soldier]

To be honest though, at this point anything that will end the war in Syria is preferable to the current situation.

[arista]

Yes Assad is the President
it had to happen


move out if you are a killer

[Northern Monkey]

Originally Posted by Toy Santa

To be honest though, at this point anything that will end the war in Syria is preferable to the current situation.

Thing is.If Assad wins then he will just keep barrel bombing and using chemical weapons on his people.

[Livia]

Just saw this on the News. Assad's troops, supported by the Russians, going house to house, massacring civilians, burning them alive, spraying them with gunfire... desperately sad "goodbye" messages on social media...

I look forward to Stop The War's condemnation of this action... although I'm not holding my breath.

[Northern Monkey]

Originally Posted by Livia

Just saw this on the News. Assad's troops, supported by the Russians, going house to house, massacring civilians, burning them alive, spraying them with gunfire... desperately sad "goodbye" messages on social media...

I look forward to Stop The War's condemnation of this action... although I'm not holding my breath.

Yes they seem very selective over which wars they want to stop....

[Northern Monkey]

Aleppo battle: UN says 82 civilians shot on the spot
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-38301629

Syrian pro-government forces have been entering homes in eastern Aleppo and killing those inside, including women and children, the UN says.
The UN's human rights office said it had reliable evidence that in four areas 82 civilians were shot on sight.
Meanwhile, the UN children's agency cited a doctor as saying a building housing as many as 100 unaccompanied children was under heavy attack.

[Niamh.]

Originally Posted by North Star Monkey

Aleppo battle: UN says 82 civilians shot on the spot
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-38301629

Syrian pro-government forces have been entering homes in eastern Aleppo and killing those inside, including women and children, the UN says.
The UN's human rights office said it had reliable evidence that in four areas 82 civilians were shot on sight.
Meanwhile, the UN children's agency cited a doctor as saying a building housing as many as 100 unaccompanied children was under heavy attack.

Jesus Christ, that's horrific

[Rob!]

Originally Posted by North Star Monkey

Aleppo battle: UN says 82 civilians shot on the spot
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-38301629

Syrian pro-government forces have been entering homes in eastern Aleppo and killing those inside, including women and children, the UN says.
The UN's human rights office said it had reliable evidence that in four areas 82 civilians were shot on sight.
Meanwhile, the UN children's agency cited a doctor as saying a building housing as many as 100 unaccompanied children was under heavy attack.

What the actual **** is wrong with these people

[Brother Leon]

[DemolitionRed]

What's happening in Aleppo is sickening. Its impossible to even start to comprehend what those people are going through. I do though, think all sides have a lot of blood on their hands. The BBC is anti Russia and Assad and so are most British media outlets. With news like this getting out, I'd rather stick with something like Reuters as its a more honest provider of world news.

[arista]

bye bye

[Northern Monkey]

I'd say this continued slaughter by the Assad regime is the consequence of not intervening back in 2012 when parliament voted against the government.Assad could've been long gone before Russia ever got involved.
Yes it could've created a vacuum but it's hard to imagine a situation that could be worse than it is now.Assad has killed many more people than ISIS ever has.

[anne666]

How much longer can this mass genocide continue?
Is this a regime and country millions of refugees will choose to go back to when Assad was the main reason they fled?

Heartbreaking images show the bodies of dead children lined up on the streets in Syria after they died in a 'gas attack'

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...as-attack.html

[DemolitionRed]

Originally Posted by North Star Monkey

I'd say this continued slaughter by the Assad regime is the consequence of not intervening back in 2012 when parliament voted against the government.Assad could've been long gone before Russia ever got involved.
Yes it could've created a vacuum but it's hard to imagine a situation that could be worse than it is now.Assad has killed many more people than ISIS ever has.

Whilst Assad may be a dictator, the same as Saddam was, at least he kept the power structure strong. Whilst America and the West have driven recklessly into Syria and created yet another massive power vacuum, Russia and Iran have fought to keep the established power structure in place.

Perhaps its a bitter pill to swallow but the West along with Israel must accept at least half of the blame for these mass atrocities in Syria.

[Kizzy]

Take responsibility for destabilisation?...You mad?...

[Rob!]

I don't understand why the government is doing this to it's people. All the civilians want to do is survive and live their lives peacefully?

[Brother Leon]

Too much propaganda to take anything coming out of Syria as gospel. It's a ****ed situation, for every anti Assad there is a person that supports him. Too much meddling has ****ed the region for good. It's sad.

[Kizzy]

Yep, no final messages from Yemen... :/

[Livia]

Originally Posted by DemolitionRed

What's happening in Aleppo is sickening. Its impossible to even start to comprehend what those people are going through. I do though, think all sides have a lot of blood on their hands. The BBC is anti Russia and Assad and so are most British media outlets. With news like this getting out, I'd rather stick with something like Reuters as its a more honest provider of world news.

And you're pro-Assad and Russia?

Like Monkey says we should have sorted him out when we had the chance. Shame that it was voted down and the war has been allowed to progress into this mayhem. Well done people who thought we shouldn't intervene. Another victory for you. And let's not even get into Corbyn's 'Momentum' and their support for Russia.

[Brother Leon]

BBC
Several buses en route to evacuate the sick and injured from two government-held villages in Syria's Idlib province have been burned by rebels.
The convoy was travelling to Foah and Kefraya, besieged by rebel fighters.
Pro-government forces are demanding people be allowed to leave the mainly Shia villages in order for the evacuation of east Aleppo to continue.
Thousands of people are waiting to leave in desperate conditions, reports say.
The initial plan to evacuate eastern Aleppo collapsed on Friday, leaving civilians stranded at various points along the route out without access to food or shelter.
Despite delays caused by disagreements over the new evacuation plan, convoys were said to be travelling to both eastern Aleppo and the government-held villages in Idlib province on Sunday.
However, UK-based monitoring group the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported earlier that the rebel group Jabhat Fatah al-Sham, formerly known as the Nusra Front, was preventing buses entering Foah and Kefraya.

Free Aleppo to the "Rebels and Activists" though right? I cringed so hard when I saw their flags flying around London in protest yesterday.

[empire]

you may be interested too hear that the syrian special forces have captured 14 US-led coalition military advisers in aleppo city, one is american born and one is israeli born, and eight are saudi born, the russians should bring these men to the UN council and they can explain why they where there and what will the UN say about how they got there, this is proof that the west wants to remove assad and place syria with a puppet government, this is the real proof that there is no civil war in syria, like libya,

[DemolitionRed]

Originally Posted by Livia

And you're pro-Assad and Russia?

I'm not pro anything to do with war and unlike you, I don't think the West should of intervened.

I refuse to rise to your sarcasms dearie...you're so not worth it.

[arista]

Originally Posted by empire

you may be interested too hear that the syrian special forces have captured 14 US-led coalition military advisers in aleppo city, one is american born and one is israeli born, and eight are saudi born, the russians should bring these men to the UN council and they can explain why they where there and what will the UN say about how they got there, this is proof that the west wants to remove assad and place syria with a puppet government, this is the real proof that there is no civil war in syria, like libya,

is there a link to this
or is from another forum?