9300 people killed in Russian airstrikes in Syria during last year

It is now one year that Russia had launched its air campaign in Syria in support of Syrian President Bashar Assad. In this one year, Russian airstrikes on areas outside government control in Syria have killed more than 9,000 people, displaced tens of thousands and caused wide destruction.
These figures are made available by the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) which is an opposition monitoring group.
This has been reported in foxnews.com dated 30 September 2016.

Russia had begun an air campaign backing the ground forces of President Bashar Assad. It helped him to turn the balance of power in his favor in many areas. These included the northern province of Aleppo and the suburbs of the capital Damascus. Opposition activists have held Russia responsible for most of the recent airstrikes against rebel-held neighborhoods of east Aleppo city that killed more than 320 civilians in the past two weeks and demolished many buildings.
As revealed by The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights that keeps track of Syria's civil war, the Russian airstrikes have killed 9,364 people in the war-torn country. These include 3,804 civilians (906 of them were children). The dead also include 2,746 members of the Islamic State group and 2,814 from other rebel and militant groups, including Al Qaeda's affiliate in Syria.


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#davidcameron #ISIS #michaelfallon #syriaairstrikes Britain has woken up from its slumber after the death of 29 Britons in Tunisia at the hands of ISIS militants. Accordingly, MPs are set to debate on whether airstrikes are to be launched on ISIS targets in Syria and elsewhere.
This has been reported in news.sky.com dated 2 July 2015.

Defense Secretary Michael Fallon is expected to make a case for allowing RAF bombers to attack Islamic State targets while insisting that no military action will be taken without a vote in the Commons.
It may be recalled that the Commons had last year given the go-ahead to bombing of militant positions in Iraq last year. However, at the time, MPs were not asked to approve wider action. At that time the situation was different because it was the chemical weapon attack by Syrian president Bashar al Assad that had sparked the previous proposal for airstrikes.
Prime Minister David Cameron is of the opinion that there is a need to crush the ISIL in both Iraq and Syria. There should be a 'full spectrum' response which would mean focusing not just one particular area where the ISIS are, but looking at a whole range of areas and how they are operating.
The main objective is to tackle the growing cut of the ISIS and blunt their cutting edge. The ISIS is an evil that must be eradicated.
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