Dammit!
Posted on 12/09/2015 9:51:36 AM PST by Trumpinator
Syria rebels begin leaving Homs under truce deal
AFP By Maher Al Mounes
2 hours ago
Homs (Syria) (AFP) - Syrian rebels began evacuating the last opposition-held district in Homs on Wednesday, paving the way for President Bashar al-Assad's regime to take full control of the country's third-largest city.
Hundreds of Syrian rebels and civilians were leaving the Waer district under a rare local ceasefire agreed with the regime at the start of December.
Some 2,000 rebels and their families will abandon Waer in Homs -- once dubbed the "capital" of Syria's revolution -- to travel to other opposition-held areas, after enduring a three-year siege that saw the district heavily shelled.
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Under the deal, Waer's rebel forces, who range from secular fighters to jihadists including fighters with Al-Qaeda affiliate Al-Nusra Front, are to completely leave the district by the end of January.
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Russia in September began its own intervention, though critics have accused Moscow of mostly hitting moderate rebels.
The latest Russian strikes hit hundreds of targets, Moscow's defence chief said, and helped Syrian special forces recover the black box of a Russian warplane downed by Turkey last month.
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Dammit!
LOL, perfect!
Russia sticking it to 0dunga. Gotta love it. Too bad 0dunga is more concerned with ousting Assad than he is fighting ISIS. Russia will not let ISIS take Damascus like 0dunga wants them to.
Aren’t the ‘rebels” essentially jihadis wanting to impose Sharia on Syria?
From this article: “Waer’s rebel forces, who range from secular fighters to jihadists including fighters with Al-Qaeda affiliate Al-Nusra Front”
Fear the wrath of His Barryness!
Huh, imagine that.
They looked so formidable when they made war on unarmed civilians.
Yes, but it's a "moderate" sharia.
If Obama and McCain act quickly, they well be able to evacuate these "rebels" to the United States, where they will be safe from Russian Islamophobia.
Well, ... good on ‘em then....
Who's to say? Where's the data?
Identify those who agree to the cease fire, then kill them.
Good news.
Dear Vlad,
We may have supplied these, ahem, rebels with some US equipment. Can you do us a solid and destroy it.
Thanks.
I watched a PBS program on ISIS and Syria the other night. It was surprisingly critical of Barky, but one element made me laugh out loud - we were to counter ISIS by finding some ‘pro-western’ rebels in Syria to arm.
The ME is oversupplied with weapons and grievances.
Hopefully the Russians will kill them as soon as they step one foot outside of the district where the cease fire applies.
The only kicking this wimpy boy king wannabe is capable of is kicking the ground while lying on his back crying during one of his tantrums. He couldn’t kick down the door of a Malibu Barbie Dream House...
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