Al-Qaeda Fighters In East-Aleppo Encircled and Besieged

Written on October 18th, 2016 in politics Comments Off

… Western Media Propaganda Goes Wild – Published on Global Research.ca, by Moon of Alabama, Oct 16, 2016.

… The terrorists in east-Aleppo are encircled and besieged. The Syrian army nibbles away piece after piece of their territorial hold while the Syrian and Russian air force attack any recognized concentrations of forces or material. It is only a question of time until they are completely defeated.  

Most of the fighters in the besieged area are associated with al-Qaeda. They are several thousand strong. Only few civilians remain. The eastern parts once housed some 300,000 people. About 10% of those, likely less, are still there. That are the realistic numbers. The spin differs.

When in 2013 the sectarian rebels had enclosed and completely besieged (map) the government held parts of Aleppo every win of theirs was called a liberation.

They since killed many of the people they “liberated”. Others fled. But the tide has turned. This animated map shows the development from September 2015 to 2016. The now besieged “rebel” held areas in east-Aleppo are shrinking every day. This is today’s situation. Much of the northern parts of the besieged area, including the Palestinian camp Handarat, are back in government hands … //

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Student Left with PTSD After Reporting her Rape to Cops (of Norfolk, VA), only to be Accused of Liking ‘Rough Sex’, on The Free Thought Project, by blog owners, Oct 14, 2016: … The woman says she was not allowed to move out of the dorm room, where she was attacked, until after she received a diagnosis for a psychological condition. Her assault was not even added to the school’s daily crime log until after a reporter found out about it. “This validated to me that Old Dominion University never took my sexual assault seriously and does not care for me as one of their students,” the woman complained …;

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China, EU pledge to boost people-to-people exchanges, on Xinhuanet (China), Oct 10, 2016;

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Rare Historical Images, published on Historical Past:

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