Syrian war death toll crosses 200,000
Syria n Observatory for Human Rights documents killing of 202,354 people including 63,074 civilians of which 10,377 are children. Syria ’s civil war has killed more than 200,000 people in less than four years, a monitoring group said on Tuesday, adding that most were fighters from the two sides. “We have documented the killing of 202,354 people since March 2011,” Syria n Observatory for Human Rights director Rami Abdel Rahman said, adding that more than 130,000 of them were combatants. “Of the total, 63,074 of the killed were…
France has deployed 3 Mirage fighter in Jordan
France has deployed three Mirage fighter jets in Jordan to help in the battle against ISIL Takfiri militants. The warplanes arrived on Friday as part of the “operational strategy to confront threats in the region,” said Jordanian Army spokesman, Colonel Mamduh al-Amiri, on Saturday. Earlier in the month, France, which takes part in airstrikes in Iraq by the so-called US-led coalition, said it would send six jet fighters to Jordan. Al-Amiri refrained from giving the location of the jets' deployment or when the remaining thr…
Syria urgently needs a political solution - John Kerry
Unless the bloodshed in Syria stops, the region could descend into a chaotic sectarian conflict, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said Saturday, as he called for an urgent political resolution to the war that has dragged on for two years and claimed 93,000 lives. The top U.S. diplomat and his counterparts from 10 Arab and European nations agreed at a daylong meeting in Qatar to step up military and other assistance to the Syrian rebels. But Kerry would not disclose details of the aid, saying only that it would re-balance the fight…
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