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April 12, 2017
Commenting on the recent letters of a group of US Congressmen to the US president and Secretary of State on the situation in Yemen, Director of Human Rights for Yemen from London Kim Sharif compared the dire developments in the Arab country with a Nazi-era concentration camp.
Source: Sputnik News
Several reports have recently suggested that US President Trump is considering providing assistance for an offensive on a key port held by rebels in Yemen and has already increased intelligence sharing and logistics support.
In addition, the US leader is reportedly considering allowing an arms sale to the Saudis that Obama blocked, and has additionally approved an arms sale to Bahrain, which is part of the Saudi coalition.
In light of the US President's willingness to also engage in Syria through missile strikes without Congressional authority, 55 US Representatives recently called on him to come to Congress before taking military action in Yemen. They sent a letter to their President warning that "direct support for the Saudi coalition’s war against Houthis would take too many resources away from the counterterrorism fight against al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula."
"Engaging our military against Yemen’s Houthis when no direct threat to the United States exists and without prior congressional authorization would violate the separation of powers clearly delineated in the Constitution. For this reason, we write to request that the Office of Legal Counsel (OLC) provide, without delay, any legal justification that it would cite if the administration intends to engage in direct hostilities against Yemen’s Houthis without seeking congressional authorization," the Congressmen wrote.
Another group of US lawmakers said on Monday that they had requested more information from President Donald Trump's administration about the potential sale of precision-guided munitions to Saudi Arabia, expressing concern over the civilian casualties in Riyadh's campaign in Yemen that delayed the deal last year.
Thirty, mostly Democratic, lawmakers signed the letter to US Secretary of State, Rex Tillerson, and Secretary of Defense, James Mattis, citing worries that the administration plans to go ahead with the sale.
April 11, 2017
Russia has intelligence from "trusted sources" that chemical weapons provocations are currently being prepared in more regions in Syria, including Damascus, Russian President Vladimir Putin said after talks with Italian counterpart Sergio Mattarella Tuesday.
Source: Sputnik News
"We have information from various sources that such provocations — and I cannot call them anything else — are being prepared in other regions of Syria, including in the southern suburbs of Damascus, where they intend to plant some substance and blame the official Syrian authorities for its use," Putin told a briefing.
Russian President Putin announced that Russia will officially turn to the UN in the Hague for an investigation of the chemical weapons' use in Idlib.
On Thursday night, the United States launched 59 Tomahawk cruise missiles at the military airfield in Ash Sha'irat. US President Donald Trump said that the attack was a response to the alleged chemical weapon use in Syria's Idlib province on Tuesday, which resulted in the death of over 80 people.
Following Putin's presser, Russian General Staff released a statement announcing that it has information of militants bringing poisonous substances to areas of Khan Shaykhun, West of Aleppo and Eastern Guta in Syria.
"All incidents reminiscent of the 'chemical attacks' that took place in Idlib must be thoroughly investigated," Putin said.
Putin pointed out that the latest US missile strikes in Syria bring to mind the United States' UN Security Council address in 2003 that led to the invasion of Iraq.
"We discussed the situation with President [ of Italy Sergio Mattarella] and I told him that these events strongly resemble the events of 2003," Putin said at a briefing, outlining the prelude to the US intervention in Iraq.
February 26, 2017
Abu Khayr al-Masri, a top al-Qaida lieutenant, was killed in a U.S. drone strike near Idlib, Syria, according to several reports.
Source: Russ Read, The Daily Caller
Pictures of a destroyed car, which Masri was ostensibly traveling in, were posted Sunday on Twitter. Masri served as the general deputy to al-Qaida leader Ayman al-Zawahiri. He was believed to be operating in Syria after being released from Iranian custody in September, 2015.
The 59-year-old Masri was born in Egypt, beginning his terrorism career as a member of Egyptian Islamic Jihad. He fled Egypt in the mid-1980s, eventually traveling to the Balkans in the 1990s where he fought with other Arabs in the Bosnian war. Masri was considered an explosive expert, and is believed to have been involved in the bombings of the U.S. embassies in Kenyan and Tanzania in 1998. He also spent time in Afghanistan, where he became a close associate of Zawahiri before he was forced to flee to Iran after the U.S. invaded in 2001.
February 21, 2017
Al-Nusra Front terrorists attacked a UN humanitarian aid convoy in Syria on February 20, a diplomatic source told Sputnik on Tuesday.
Source: Sputnik News
"On February 20, there was an attempted passage of a humanitarian convoy of the United Nations and humanitarian agencies from Homs to the settlement of al-Waer, where militants of illegal armed groups, including opposition and al-Nusra Front, are located. The Russian servicemen of the Syrian reconciliation center were accompanying the convoy," the source said.
According to the source, the aid deliveries were derailed by an attack of militants against the convoy. They could have used the attack "as a live shield" so that the Syrian army could not return fire."
As a result of the attack by the militants, civilians and servicemen of the Syrian government army were killed and wounded. The militants used mortars and carried out sniper and machine-gun fire. The Russian representatives were not wounded. The campaign to deliver humanitarian aid to the people of the al-Waer region was derailed," the source said.
December 16, 2019
At least 100 people have been killed and dozens wounded in a suicide bomb attack on a shrine in Pakistan, according to police. Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS/ISIL) has claimed responsibility for the attack.
Source: RT News
"At least 72 are dead and over 150 have been injured," senior police officer Shabbir Sethar told Reuters, adding that the death toll is likely to rise.
Later, Rasool Baksh, a senior officer from the Sehwan police station, told local media the death toll had reached 100.
Military units are airlifting the wounded to nearby hospitals, according to Maj. Gen. Asif Ghafoor, the spokesperson for Pakistan's armed forces.
The suicide bomber entered the Lal Shahbaz Qalandar shrine in the city of Sehwan Sharif through its golden gate, according to local authorities cited by Dawn news outlet. The explosion took place at the spot where a ritual known as dhamaal was being performed.
"The blast occurred within the premises of the shrine. We have declared emergency in hospitals and are shifting the injured to nearby hospitals," Deputy Commissioner Munawar Mahesar told ARY News.
Tragic Fate of Yazidi Children Forced to be Suicide Bombers by Daesh (ISIS)
February 17, 2017
Recently a video was published showing a terrorist attack conducted on behalf of Daesh by two Yazidi children. The 30 minute video shows two young Yazidi brothers committing suicide attacks in Mosul.
Source: Sputnik News
The two brothers aged 15 and 16 were taken prisoner during an attack on Sinjar in August 2014 by Daesh terrorists.
In the video footage they first say that they are going to blow themselves up and then one of them commits an attack in the west of Mosul whereas, the other in the district of Tal Afar east of Mosul.
The head of the Department of the Ministry of Yazidis and Iraqi Kurdistan Hayri Bozani told Sputnik Turkey that Daesh terrorists abduct Yazidi children and then convert them into suicide bombers by exposing them to different sorts of training.