Twin bombings in Syrian city of Homs leave 46 dead

#homs #syria #ISIS #twinbomb Twin bomb blasts in the Syrian city of Homs has left at least 46 people dead, among them there are 28 civilians. This has been informed by the UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. These attacks have been described as being among the biggest blasts to hit the government-held neighborhood of Zahra during the five-year civil war.
This has been reported in news.sky.com dated 21 February 2016.

As revealed by Syrian state television footage fronts of shops had been ripped off and vehicles were destroyed by the force of the bombs. As per official figures of the Syrian state TV, the number of deaths is put at 25 - this figure is reportedly from Homs provincial governor Talal Barazi.
The attacks has come a day after government advances against Islamic State but no one has claimed responsibility as yet. Incidentally, Homs was once seen as the capital of the revolution and is now largely controlled by pro-government forces. The Zahra neighborhood has become a regular target for bombers. There were major attacks including one on a school in October 2014 in which 48 children and four adults were killed.


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Russia carries out airstrikes in Syria – targets CIA-backed rebels instead of ISIS

It is a fact that Russia has carried out airstrikes in Syria – but, instead of targeting the ISIS, the Russia targets appear to have areas that are held by rebels who are receiving arms, funding, and training from the CIA. Dozens of civilians have died in the Russian airstrikes.
The Syrian National Council is a group opposed to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and they have revealed that at least 36 people had been killed by airstrikes in the western city of Homs – five of them were children.
This has been reported in foxnews.com dated 1 October 2015.

Moreover, as per the SNC's leader, none of the four areas targeted by Russian planes had any ISIS fighters. Hence, Moscow's claim that it was helping the U.S.-led coalition defeat the terror group was ‘baseless.’
According to a senior U.S. defense official, the Russian strikes had targeted fighters in the vicinity of Homs, located roughly 60 miles east of a Russian naval facility in Tartus, and were carried out by a "couple" of Russian bombers.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has reiterated that the Russian Air Forces are cooperating with the Syrian pro-government military to target "exclusively" Islamic State (ISIS) targets.
To this, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry has indicated that Washington was prepared to welcome Russian military action in Syria as long as it is directed against ISIS and other Al Qaeda affiliates. However, if strikes were conducted against other groups, the matter would be grave.
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ISIS French connection – 13-year-old French child becomes youngest member killed in action

#ISIS #frenchboy #homs #syria We have heard of young boys and girls being used as suicide bombers and the incident of a 13-year-old French boy becoming the first child casualty of ISIS in Syria should make us wake up to the gloomy future of the boys and girls who are growing up in a society that encourages violence. These kids would grow up with a distorted view of what is right and what is wrong.
The 13-year-old from Strasbourg, France, was killed when Government forces attacked a border post in the western city of Homs that he was guarding and he is believed to be the youngest to die fighting for Islamic State in Syria. This has been reported in dailymail.co.uk dated 10 March 2015.
According to David Thomson, a French journalist and author of Les Français jihadistes (The French Jihadists), the boy had died two months ago. The author has revealed that the boy had arrived in Syria with his family and two of his brothers were killed in fighting.
A photo in a social networking site shows him holding a rifle which is too big for him to handle.
Those who are behind the rise of this militant group that loves to shed blood at the drop of a hat needs to be identified and removed from circulation at the earliest. It is a global problem and all leaders should sink their differences and join hands to fight this evil because tomorrow it could be someone close to us who would become a target.

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