Suspected Russian warplanes kill scores in Syrian city: rescue workers

[Eugene]

Source: Reuters

Air strikes believed to have been carried out by Russian warplanes killed scores of people in the center of the rebel-held city of Idlib in northwest Syria on Sunday, rescue workers and residents said.

They said at least six strikes had hit a busy market place in the heart of the city, several government buildings and residential areas. Rescue workers said they had confirmed 43 dead but that at least 30 more bodies had been retrieved that had still to be identified. Over 150 people were wounded with some of the serious cases sent to hospitals in Turkey.

"There are a lot of corpses under the rubble," Yasser Hammo, a civil defense worker, said via an Internet messaging system, adding that volunteers and civil defense workers were still pulling bodies out.

Footage on social media and the pro-opposition Orient TV station showed makeshift ambulances rushing with injured civilians through an area where people were searching for survivors among the debris of collapsed buildings.

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Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/us-mideast-crisis-syria-airstrikes-idUSKBN0U30JV20151220

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World | Sun Dec 20, 2015 11:19am EST
BEIRUT | BY SULEIMAN AL-KHALIDI

[cantbeserious]

1. The Citizens Will Be Terrorized Until Morale Improves

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[CJCRANE]

2. Syria conflict: Idlib city falls to Jabhat al-Nusra

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/syria-conflict-idlib-city-falls-to-jabhat-al-nusra-as-president-assads-forces-flee-jihadists-claim-10141020.html

Up to 70 Syrian army chiefs beheaded by ISIS after jihadis make advance on second city of Idlib that has been held by Assad's forces for more than a year

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2810598/Up-70-Syrian-army-chiefs-beheaded-Isis-jihadis-make-advance-second-city-Idlib-held-Assad-s-forces-year.html

[7962]

3. I was blasted for saying Russia would inflict a lot of civilian casualties when this started

Because they dont care about "world opinion".

[leftyladyfrommo]

4. It couldn't have been Putin

Because he never kills anyone. Just ask Trump.

I feel so sorry for the people who live in the whole middle east. It's just such a mess over there.

[McKim]

5. Collateral Damage

Of course, when we do it is called collateral damage and not reported on so much.

[PersonNumber503602]

7. I'm pretty sure it's reported on when it happens.

That's why many of us say that dropping bombs should be one of the last resorts. As we've seen it cause collateral damage, and we know the suffering and sometimes blow back that it causes. We should expect to see more blame going around now that other countries are asserting themselves in a similar manner. In the future when China is bombing Vietnam and Russia is bombing someone, we shouldn't run straight to the US DOES IT TOOOOO. We should report and discuss things no matter who is doing it.

[red dog 1]

6. Putin is just doing what he promised to do yesterday

The Guaradian (UK)
December 19, 2015


"Vladimir Putin has warned that Russia is ready to scale-up it's military intervention in Syria, less than a day after Moscow signed off on an ambitious U.N. plan to end the war."

"Putin says Russia ready to increase military role in Syria"
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/dec/19/russia-ready-increase-military-role-syria-vladimir-putin


Timeline:
Friday: Putin "signs off" on UN plan to end the war in Syria.
Saturday: Putin warns "that Russia is ready to scale-up it's military intervention in Syria."
Sunday: Russian warplanes bomb rebel-held city of Idlib killing more than 70 civilians & injuring
at least 150 more.
(Number of ISIS militants killed in this bombing raid....0)